Over the past few weeks, I’ve adjudicated at two competitions and one competitive festival. It’s a favourite part of my role as a music educator and I wish I could do more of it. Two of the three competitions were ‘live’ events where I was the sole adjudicator, and the third was online, where I…
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Touring in Singapore and Malaysia
If you’ve been following my social media sites, you’ll know I’ve been working in Singapore and Johor Bahru (in Malaysia) over the past week. I aim to organise several overseas book tours per year as I love to travel, and I also enjoy meeting teachers and students from different parts of the world. I’m extremely…
The 70th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival
Returning from my latest trip to Asia this week, I reflected on another thoroughly enjoyable sojourn to a favourite part of the world. I visited Asia twice last year and have a further trip planned later in 2018. There are so many wonderful facets to my visit that it’s difficult to put into words. Three…
5 Practice Tips To Instantly Improve A Performance
Over the past few weeks I’ve been travelling around, teaching and adjudicating, providing the opportunity to hear a large and varied selection of piano playing. Whether pianists are young or old, beginners or very advanced players, and there has been an unusually large cohort of superb playing this year, several issues persist amongst pianists. With…