What makes a good musician? A good musician is so much more than their ability and aptitude for making music.  A good musician [...]

Those who can’t do, teach.  This phrase used to give me imposter syndrome….bad.   The obvious answer to the “why can’t they?” question this [...]

Musicians should strive for balance. What is balance? This has been a buzz word for several years by now, but we hear it [...]

What is a performance? Simply, a performance is something you do in front of others on purpose.  More specifically for our purposes, it [...]

The NATS National Conference did not disappoint!  Conferences are equal parts exhausting and exhilarating.  It's great for me to get away and [...]

Is the Perfect Performance as elusive as the Easter Bunny? After a recent performance experience I had, that went really well, actually [...]

Important Impact of Group Learning Why is group learning an important part of music education? One-on-one lessons are a great way to [...]

Slowing down…I think one of the latest buzz words floating around out there is mindfulness - the quality or state of being [...]

I love teaching Christmas Music!  Christmas Music is like a microcosm of all the musical time-periods and genres in one neat package!  [...]

I did some soul-searching this summer.  And along the way, defined what I think are the pillars of musical education.  I reflected [...]