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Cindy’s Recital

Public performance is a great tool to get ready for exams and...

ORMTA magazine SPECIAL TEACHER AWARD 2013: http://www.hhormta.org/octa-awards/ Leon Karan, M.F.A., B.Mus., R.M.T., Pianist, Educator, Piano tuner www.leonkaran.com Leon Karan holds degrees of Master of Fine Arts from Ural University, Yekaterinburg, Russia and Bachelor of Music from the Music College, Mogilev, Belarus. In Minsk, Belarus, Leon held the...

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Kendra Oudyk winner of Bedford award for excellence in piano playing 2014 McMaster University

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My reflection after receiving distinction awards in year 2013. We are now enjoying 34 more years life expectancy compared to what it was 300 years ago. As I look back, I would divide my life into three major time periods: The first one, up to my 28th year, was my education, which is actually an on-going process. The second one, up to my 55th year, was...

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School for parents.

We understand and encourage uniqueness with a nurturing environment tailored to each piano student’s individual talent and career goal. Music is a reflection of our lives and piano is among the most expressive instruments capable of delivering musical experience.

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... the next door for piano teacher, will consider more than just the performing ability of the teacher, will look into the professional status of the teacher, and will start their children’s piano study with the expectation of year-to-year progress toward musical competence.
James W. Bastien
How to Teach Piano Successfully.
Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 4380 Jutland Drive, San Diego, California 92117

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Piano Tuning

Piano Service and Tuning

Piano is a complex musical instrument that uses mechanisms not found in any other device.

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A professional musician usually analyzes tone subjectively, using a sense like soft, mellow, bright tone or, sharp and low pitch. The professional tuner is able sometimes, to please customer by making sound more mellow or bright, regulate the action and to bring scale to the standard of 440 MHz “A” created by J.S Bach.
A perfectly tuned piano is a necessity for people playing piano. It must be in tune and well regulated in order to avoid hearing the music properly and be able to prepare for the ear-test component of the Conservatory exams.

Like any mechanical instrument it has to be serviced at least twice a year.

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Audio Recording

Audio recording is the perfect tool to overcome nervousness of public performance

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In public performance there is still some room for error. It could be recovered by the special study of the piece, knowledge on how our memory works and solid preparation however, the perfect recording require ability to stay focused through entire recording which is even more difficult.
After successful recording session artists and students are more confident in their abilities to deliver expressive musical performance without any glitches.
Some helpful tips on how to work on eliminating memory lapses and technical glitches read in the next update of the web site…

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Cindy’s Recital

SPECIAL TEACHER AWARD 2013

Kendra Oudyk

Distinction Awards 2013

Music Lessons

School for parents.

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Piano Tuning

Piano Service and Tuning

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Audio Recording

Audio recording is the perfect tool to overcome nervousness of public performance

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