One of my favorite ways to teach toddlers the groups of two and three black keys on the piano is with foam sheets. I take two different colored foam sheets and cut rectangular shapes that fit perfectly on the group of two and three black keys. I make seven identical cutouts for each group; a total of 14 cutouts. I like to use one color for the two black keys and another color foam sheet for the three black keys.

Have you ever been to a music store or searched online for the best piano book to buy for you or your student? It can be overwhelming to know which books to get and I am here to help! There are so many piano methods and books out there. Here are a list of piano series that I highly recommend and use everyday for my students.

Happy Saturday!

This week’s performers are Averie, Ruthy and Joshua. They will be performing the following pieces:

1. The Sleeping Beauty Waltz - P. Tchaikovsky

If you’re a piano teacher you may be asking yourself which books are the best to start with a new student. In my years of teaching I have found these books to be the best for beginners. Some books begin right away with reading notes on the staff. Other books begin with learning the finger numbers and learning how to differentiate between the groups of two and three black keys. It’s up to you as the teacher to know which book/s to give to your new student. Going to Sam Ash and looking through all the books can be overwhelming. Especially if you are just starting out and don’t know which books you should use with your student. I like to have a few different books with me in the first lesson to see which one we might begin with. Here are my favorites:

Happy Saturday everyone!

This week’s performers are Myra, Zachary, Grace, Karissa and Nikash. They will be performing the following pieces:

Hello all! I hope you enjoy this week’s performances. My students will be performing pieces from Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Miles, Wilhelm Friedman Bach and Edward Grieg. I'm so

Happy 4th of July! This week we have students playing pieces from composers including: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Thomas Attwood, 

One day, a friend of my family, and a genius Cuban pianist stayed at our house the night before her performance at Carnegie Hall. She sat on the sofa and read her concerto as if she were reading a novel. She started to practice and my dad called me down to listen to her practice her warm-up exercises. "Do you hear how she is practicing? She is one of the most incredible concert pianists. Listen to how slowly she is practicing." I'm 99% sure I

Here are this week’s performances. They did a great job playing pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and more! Enjoy!

Hi all! I want to share with you a new series we’ll be doing. In my years at Manhattan School of Music Precollege, there was a showcase called music hour. Basically, students would perform one piece in a performance space to practice playing in front of an audience.

I make my living teaching piano. I’ve taught lessons at music schools, my students’ homes and my home studio. But what does one do when you’re not allowed to go outside? I’ve adapted as we’ve all had to and started my first week of teaching online lessons. I’m not going to lie; I never understood how online lessons could work with piano, but it totally does work! Here are some things that have made online lessons work smoothly for me:

There's something so special about giving someone their very first piano lesson. Be it the 4 year old who has been begging their parents to learn piano, the 16 year old who really wants to learn that song they heard on the radio or the 57 year old who has always wanted to learn piano but never came around to it; there's usually a healthy dose of nervousness, excitement and child-like energy!

I grew up in a musical household. My father is a concert pianist and professor, my sister an opera singer and my mom a lover of music. My father had piano student’s day and night. As a kid, I would come home from school and my father would be teaching. Sometimes there would be yelling at the lack of practice but most always, there was laughter and enjoyment at both ends.