What Is Music For You Piano Lesson Studio all about?

Hi And Welcome to my page Music For You.

Here you will find information to do with Piano Lessons specific to our studio, and other music-related ideas and articles.

There is much to learn by watching people explore and grow through music, both mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  There really is no age limit for learning to play the piano. I will never be able to fully grasp the wonder that this God-given gift of music really has to offer. 

I prefer students to be of 6-7 years age minimum before beginning piano lessons, and that they have a good digital piano or acoustic piano at home.

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Here is our Website. Here is the student platform we use for our weekly calendar and invoicing 

mymusicstaff.com.

One of the ways we keep track of practicing is through the My Music Staff App, and a physical notebook that we write our goals in each week. 

I run a Piano tuition Studio in Mandurah, Western Australia, since 2016 and established in 2010. Having trained in my hometown in the Barossa valley, South Australia. I first began discovering my passion for sharing piano music when I entered the Balaklava eisteddfod in 1998, being awarded first place and my teacher at the time encouraged me to experiment with touching the audience with emotion and not just focus on playing correct notes. I was so thankful to realize that the gift of music was given to me, and I had the opportunity to give that to others. Just as my teachers has tirelessly shared their love of music and gift to me, I began to realize that this was something I could share in my lifetime too. 

My parents saw the value in lessons, sending me to a teacher from a young age. My own Nanna, Nelly Modra, and my Mother, Ruth Christian played piano beautifully and they constantly encouraged me to keep trying when I wanted to give up. My Nanna was a pianist for ballroom dancing and she had a unique style. She then became a Christian and so her testimony and her repertoire of hymns and worship music has influenced my playing to this day. She played these hymns with her own unique signature style, once again. She loved God and taught my Mum and her siblings to live the same values.

Both Mum and Dad encouraged me to play all types of music, but especially Gospel music and hymns on Sunday. I played for Sunday Gospel Mission Church from the age of thirteen years old, for a few years which was a wonderful way to learn to play four-part harmony and sing words about God and Jesus and the Gospel message through the bible.  I am particularly grateful for the opportunities that came my way when my teachers (both privately and at school) offered accompanying and choir positions and my school friends and I even had the opportunity to start a wedding flute quartet which was a lot of fun.

This musically-rich childhood enabled me to start sharing my love of music to others, so I finished my own study and began teaching young people to play. My Father's sister (Gwen Edwards) came to visit once, when I was about 13 years old and she was a piano teacher in Perth. I listened to her play Rachmaninov, and her own compositions; sitting by the piano in awe. I felt something move in my heart and this has happened many times when I have listened to various composers work also. 

I am inspired by various piano teachers that have helped me gain more understanding from the different composers work, playing in various musical genres and encouraging me to study and practice to improve and develop my technique, and to encourage me to teach classical technique so that students may learn to play with expression and character.