Spring Recital 2015

Our Spring Recital was a great success. Thank you to all the students and parents for your dedication this year. Please see our article and photos in the North Channel Current. Happy Summer!

Spring Recital Preparations

We have just a few more days until our 2015 Spring Recital. It will be at the Laird Hall on Sunday, May 31st, at 6:00 PM. Students, keep practicing and reviewing those pieces. Here are a few more reminders:

1) Dress your best and arrive ahead of time with your music, so you can be calm and ready to play.
2) Remember your stage manners. Take your time with your performance...set up the bench comfortably, sit with good posture, and bow after your piece.
3) Be a good audience for the other students. Listen attentively and applaud after each performance. Tell someone else they did a good job (after the recital).
4) Have fun! This is our celebration of a year of hard work and enjoyment of creating music. Remember that everyone is there to support and celebrate with you.

Congratulations on another great year with us at Lessons in the Loft! See you on Sunday.

Spring Music Festival

Sydney Withers-Cott with Michel Fournier

This week five of our piano students participated in the 2015 Sault Ste Marie Music Festival at the new Algoma Conservatory of Music location on Huron St. This year's participants were Sydney Withers-Cott, James Schuster, Alyssa Stevens, Kaija Karhi and Katja Karhi. All five young pianists performed well and since the classes were small this year, each of them got to spend a significant amount of time with the adjudicator at the piano for some constructive tips. Concert pianist Michel Fournier of Montreal was the adjudicator this year, and he interacted exceptionally well with the students. It was a positive and productive experience for the students and the teachers who attended.

Katja Karhi performing Barcarole by David Duke

Fourteen Performance Awards of Distinction were awarded in the junior division this year, and two of our very own Lessons in the Loft students were listed as recipients! Congratulations to Alyssa Stevens and James Schuster for being named on the list for their "exceptional performances". We are very proud of you for receiving this honour!

Winter Recital 2015

Congratulations on your great performances at our recent recital, students! For a peak at some photographs and a brief article, visit the North Channel Current, here.

Welcome Back

Happy New Year! 2015 lessons have begun. We'd like to officially welcome new students Rebecca and Rachel Wellwood, Ava and Zoe Meadows, and Max Zimmerman.

Our winter recital will take place on Sunday, February 1st, at 3 PM, at the Laird Township Hall on Pumpkin Point Road. Mark the date on your calendars, and let's get practising!

Piano Origami

One of our piano students, Alyssa Stevens, has been learning how to do origami at her fall 4-H club. She showed up at her lesson yesterday with this amazing creation, complete with tiny sheet music! What a fun addition to the piano studio. Thanks, Alyssa!

A tiny piano, complete with a bench and sheet music!

Fall 2014

We have had a great beginning to lessons in the piano and guitar studios. It's been fun starting with some new students and picking up where we left off with the old ones. A big welcome to Patrick Cameron, a new guitar student, and to James Schuster who has joined us for piano. There are still lesson openings available for both piano and guitar. All ages and levels can be accommodated. Please help us spread the word.

Remember that next week (Sept 22-26) there will be no lessons as we will be rehearsing with our band, the Be Lyrebirds. If you are interested in coming out to hear us play, the benefit concert is on Thursday, September 25th, 7:30 PM at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Sault Ste Marie. It is unfortunate that it's on a school night, but we still hope to have a good turn out from the community. Here is a link to our blog where you can listen to our music for free: Be Lyrebirds

Have a great week off. Keep practising, and we'll see you the following week!