All current students of mine at Sherwood or FaithSlaker Music:
I hope you're all
having a great summer so far! Care to show us all what you can accomplish on your own?
This summer there are two contests. The first contest is to compose your own piece of music and perform it via video. You do not need to write it down. Decide what the mood of the piece is and use as many piano techniques that I've taught you as you feel like! The second contest is to perform a piece with a circus-type trick involved. The piece still needs to be performed with beauty and accuracy. We've talked about ideas in lessons and there are several ideas on my youtube channel. As always, winners will be selected based on accomplishment within their playing level, musical expression and daring choice.
Entries must be received by midnight on August 31st
(via youtube, vimeo or mp4) and winners will be announced via blog/twitter/facebook the first week of fall classes. There will be one winner and one runner up for each category (composition or circus trick) and the winners will be awarded fun sheet music to work on in lessons as well as the privilege of spending a lesson working on either composition or circus tricks!
Now, head on over to
the piano, warm up with your performance pieces, and see what you can
do! I look forward to watching all the entries!
