Tuesday, March 7, 2023 by Kara Myers | challenges

Thanks to everyone who participated and sent in their sheets for the Morning Practice Challenge! A big congratulations to Aria Sherbo, who won by a landslide with 254 minutes!!

Here's the list of runners-up along with their morning* practice totals:

Jacob Pfeil, 165 minutes

Audrey Boland, 160 minutes

Katalina Leasak, 152 minutes

Arya Boland, 145 minutes

Jesse Wilson, 132 minutes

Robbin Bjorgum, 125 minutes

Evan Wilson, 92 minutes

Charles Boland, 89 minutes

Hannah Wilson, 82 minutes

Shiloh Colmenares-Mickler, 51 minutes

Danae Carlson, 30 minutes

*Some students submitted practice times in the afternoon. These were not included in their morning minute counts. However, these minutes still earned them their usual Bach Bucks for practicing as well as were credited toward other challenges such as the Mozart Challenge or the 100 Days of Practice Challenge.

All runners-up with at least 20 minutes each day for 5 days received $10 Bach Bucks at their last lesson. As our winner, Aria received an additional $10 Bach Bucks!

Great job, everyone!

Kara

Sunday, December 18, 2022 by Kara Myers | news

Merry Christmas everyone! 

Congratulations for your beautiful performances in our "Carols of Christmas" Recital on December 9! We had a great mix of pieces and a wonderfully enthusiastic audience. Thanks again to Michael Lipnicki's Fine Pianos for providing the venue and Irene Besse for volunteering her time to host. You guys are amazing!!

Here are some photo highlights taken by my hubby Ben. If you would like to view the whole collection, let me know in the next week and I'll send you on the link on Google Drive. I'll delete them from there next Friday so don't delay!

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone for our annual Bring A Parent Holiday Week! We've got a whole lot of fun planned, including rhythm cups, improv, composing, and more. It's the perfect way to send off 2022! 

Kara

Thursday, November 3, 2022 by Kara Myers | news

A huge congratulations to Maya for achieving First Class Honours with Distinction (91%) in her Conservatory Canada contemporary idioms exam last week!

Maya has worked incredibly hard over the last year, including continuing lessons over the summer, and her efforts paid off handsomely! Very few students achieve a First Class Honours with Distinction mark - mastering all the right notes and rhythms only gets you 80%. So 91% is a big accomplishment!

Maya poses wearing the Mozart wig for our Grand Tour of Mozart Practice Challenge!