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David Story

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I came to Leon for some help exploring European Classical music.

I was a professional jazz musician ready for a career change. And change I got. Leon convinced me to up my ambitions and attempt Grade 10 and my ARCT. Four years later, 5,000 hours of practice and study, success: First Class Honours in both my grade 10 and ARCT. I was the 2006 recipient of the Adelmo Melecci Scholarship, the Gordon Hallett Scholarship from the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto and a Hamilton ORMTA Scholarship for my ARCT. I got local, provincial, and national scholarships.

It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. It was fantastic! It was my ticket out of the jazz music business into full-time work as a piano teacher, adjudicator, writer, composer, and examiner.

I was very happy to work with under Leon’s guidance. His patience with me, concern, and skill in directing me to my goals, and around more than one shoal helped me to an achievement I never thought possible.

Thank you Leon,

David Story, B.M., ARCT, RMT

www.davidstory.ca

Music Lessons

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.
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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.

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…