Time: 4:00pm

Place: Unitarian Church(W.Side Olympia)

2200 East End St. N.W.

Reception:refreshments provided by me

Parking: limited due to construction. Do not

Park in the cul-de-sac! You can park on the

Street.

Hopefully their construction will be done for

Our Spring recital.

Love My Music Week!

This is an annual event. Students receive one piece of candy for each measure memorized of their recital pieces. However, they do not receive the candy until after they have performed the pieces, without music open.

Student of the Month!

December – Joseph Burrell

January - Morgan Wheeler

Practice Contest Winners

Annalise Dickason

Dominique Hart

Joseph Burrell

Marissa Wiggins

Morgan Wheeler

Sarah Gorrell

Piano Explorer Magazine – February

We will be studying the French composer,

Claude Debussy, in depth.

Performance Class in February

Students participating in adjudications are expected to play at least one of their pieces

from memory and the other piece performance

ready. The other students are expected to have their recital pieces performance ready.

Washington State Music Teachers’ Assoc. adjudications will take place March 8- 13th

At United Churches (downtown).

We do not have control over the schedule.

I will let you know your time as soon as possible. Because these adjudications take place all day, students may need to be excused from school. Honors recitals are on Sunday, March 14th.

I was very lucky!

Pedagogy is the study of how to teach playing a solo instrument. I was very fortunate to have started teaching when many new methods were being introduced. Many of these approaches to teaching piano were “cutting edge” and set the standard still used today. I reviewed every method available to know its strengths and weaknesses. More method books have come out since then and continue to come onto the market. It is important to know where I need to supplement for weaknesses.

Concerts- Hearing live music

There is nothing more exciting than hearing a “live” performance. It is like the difference between seeing a baseball team “live” vs. on the T.V. You can often attend rehearsals of the Olympia Symphony for free.

Feb 6th – guitar – Washington Center

March 14th – Charlie Albright- Olympia Symphony- Washington Center

April 1st-piano, Philip Glass-Wash Center

Website- Use it, you’ll like it

I work at keeping this updated, especially the teaching schedule. www.mjwrightpiano.com

Mary Jo