Star Piano Studio

Resources

Links

• A Guide to RCM Exams
• Baroque Music Resource: Bach
• BCRMTA Clinicians List : Dr. Star is on this prestigious list!
• Beethoven Performance Practice : UVic Journal: Musicological Explorations
• Beethoven Poet : Dissertation
• Beethoven Poet : Abstract: In attempts to take a step towards illustrating Berlioz's musical aesthetic, my dissertation explores his "Critical Study" as his manifesto of the new poetic in music, which uses Beethoven's symphonies as models. First published in 1844, his "Critical Study" is a collection of individual essays on each of Beethoven's nine symphonies - the most widely known version of these essays originally published in the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1837-8. This collection of essays derives from a reworking of Berlioz's earliest articles on Beethoven (1829-37), notably his reviews of a new concert series at the Societe des concerts du Conservatoire that premiered Beethoven's symphonies in Paris. Almost ten years in the making, Berlioz's "Critical Study" represents the pinnacle of his writings on Beethoven. Here he promotes Beethoven's "romantic" symphonies as models of "poetic" forms, within the context of emerging French literary Romanticism. I examined some of the key components in Beethoven's music that most occupy Berlioz as critic and, in turn, how Berlioz as composer develops these key components in his own contribution to the symphonic genre - his Romeo et Juliette (1839), composed at the peak of his Beethoven study. Ultimately, I hope to have demonstrated that the subtle mixture of the musical, the poetic, the critical pedagogical, and the cultural that intersect in Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette exemplifies the same aesthetic of the poetic that he promotes in Beethoven's symphonies.
• Beethoven Poet: Hector Berlioz's : Ph.d. dissertation, UVic (Musicology), 2011
• Berlioz Resources
• Chopin Scores Online
• Chopin: Notational Interpretation
• Clavier Magazine: Benefits of Piano Lessons : June 2014
• Closing Doors: Terminating Lessons
• Good Ways to Practice
• How Parents Can Support Student Practice
• LinkedIn Profile
• Music Can Improve Reading Skills
• Music Improves Kid's Brains!
• Music Lessons in Childhood: Gift for Life
• Music of the Classical Era : UVic Fall 2015
• Music of the Jazz Age : UVic Continuing Studies, Fall 2014
• Parent Support for Piano Students
• Practice Tips : Excellent tips from professional pianist Jonathan Plowright: notably how to practice, scales and more, and memorize.
• Practicing Practicing : Ways to help students practice more efficiently: practice at home what is shown and discussed in the lesson. Intrinsic practice is most effective.
• RCM Examiner Biography 2015
• RCM National Teacher Registration Profile : Certified RCM Advanced Senior Specialist, Intermediate Specialist, and Elementary Specialist
• RCM Teacher's Workshop : RCM Graded Examinations Workshop, Tom Lee Music, Victoria, B.C. May 6th, 2014
• Short History of Jazz : UVic Course, Spring 2014
• Star Piano Studio : Facebook page: informative articles for students, teachers, parents, and performers.
• UVic Music Course, 2015 spring : https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/Course/A-Short-History-of-Classical-Music/ASMU389/
• UVic Spring 2016: A Short History of Jazz
• Uvic, Spring 2016: A Short History of Classical Music
• Video: Learning and Praise : Excellent video on keeping students on the growth curve.
• Why RCM Exams?

Files

• Piano Panda Practice Adventures.docx
  Piano Panda’s Practice Journal is a chance for students to share their weekly practice experiences, accompanied by Piano Panda. This is a great opportunity for parents to check-in with their child’s progress and to show support; a means for students to express their feelings about practice and their individual learning process; a way for me, as teacher, to assess progress outside of the lesson; and, a venue for students to record encouragement and communicate with other piano students.
• chopin ornaments.pdf
  Chopin Ornaments
• icmpc11_full_paper_dworak.pdf
  Messaien and Synaesthesia
• DOC_658_1_ (1).doc
  Liszt on Berlioz