Sentences with phrase «studying piano»

But as I have previously noted as an analogy using as the comparison — studying piano: you can practically become a master musician.

About 4 years ago, I began studying the piano again after some 35 - 40 years.

She and her husband separated in 1970 and for the next 13 years she juggled being a single parent in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with working in a day care center, taking in boarders, studying the piano and writing.

January 26, 2016 • «I want to show the new face of Afghanistan,» says 18 - year - old Elham Fanoos, now studying piano at Hunter College in New York.

After studying piano at the local conservatory and composition with Gerardo Gandini he moved to Israel, where he studied with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy and immersed himself in the colliding musical traditions of that city.

A sophisticated New Yorker from a prominent Manhattan family, he had studied piano in Paris, played guitar with gusto and loved to belt out Red Army songs in Russian.

Laurie completed her degree at Wheaton College where she studied piano, violin, and elementary education.

Children who play the violin or study piano could be learning more than just Mozart.

I studied piano for 12 years and an accomplished pianist.

Though she studied piano, acting, and dance as a young woman, she parlayed those skills into a career teaching acting alongside her husband until he died in 1983.

She studied piano at an early age and is a huge fan of the Mario game series.

[18] Tobey studied piano and music theory with John Cage, and thereafter, it was Tobey who had an influence on Cage.

He studied the piano and the theory of music with Lockrem Johnson, and, when Johnson was away, with Wesley Wehr, who was introduced to Tobey in 1949 by their pianist friend Berthe Poncy Jacobson.

Initially encouraged to study piano, Sterne eventually succeeded in convincing her parents to allow her to study art instead.

During this period he studied the piano and took up studies of sculpture in Turin under the sculptor Pietro Canonica.

He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music.

In her teens, she studied piano and voice because her family wanted her to be a star like her uncle Chico Marx, but she never made it to Hollywood.

Lisette Model (1901 - 1983) was born in Vienna, where she studied piano and compositional theory with Arnold Schönberg before moving to Paris.

Not exact matches

The Grammy - award winning musician began to learn classical piano when she was 7 and shortly after enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she began to study jazz.

Studies conducted at Harvard University showed that people who simply imagined practicing the piano every day physically strengthened the muscles in their fingers.

Meanwhile, the slightly - older - than - middle - age grandmother who doesn't play the piano so well — or the forester who loves to study the Bible but can't make it every Sunday — or the welder and his wife, who homeschools their 3 children with the desire to minister to their kids and their friends but can't because they ticked off the pastor's wife on the last trip — they'll just sit and wait, or wonder if they should leave and re-enter.

Thereby, different procedures may have established in their brains while playing the piano which makes switching between the styles more difficult,» says Daniela Sammler, neuroscientist at MPI CBS and leader of the current study about the different brain activities in jazz and classical pianists.

Michael Barton has high - functioning autism, studies physics at the University of Surrey, UK, plays jazz piano and gives talks on the positive aspects of autism.

And third, I was artistic, having grown up passionately studying and playing the piano.

Before embarking on his journey to become a physician, Lance completed a double bachelors degree in classical piano performance and Latin American Studies at Oberlin College and Conservatory.

When she's not working with them or studying the books, she enjoys forest bathing, an enticing read and playing her piano.

Studying at USTSP and I play instruments like guitars and pianos..

I am 20 year old student who is studying music education I love music it is my life I have played music since I was 5 I play violin, piano, guitar, bass guitar, viola, and drums.

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Although Friedman first studied classical piano, he fell in love with the voice of jazz and performed with jazz greats such as Chet Baker and Buddy DeFranco.

It may also seem a strange title for a film by Michael Haneke, the great Austrian director best known in America for his Oscar - nominated study of the origins of German fascism, The White Ribbon; the surveillance thriller Caché; and The Piano Teacher, which was itself a kind of love story — the sadomasochistic kind.

Burnished, noble of countenance, as if specifically designed as a stately ornament for the gardens of Lombardy, he resembles the Roman statues that the professor studies — one of which, in a scene of euphoric calm, is hauled up from the waters of Lake Garda to the rippling accompaniment of a John Adams piano piece.

Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student working in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»

This powerpoint can be used over a number of lessons studying the set work for Neoclassicism - Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano.

She also takes piano lessons, sings in her church choir, and goes to Bible study every week.

Karen Hagerty, a longtime piano studies teacher at Fraser High School, said she is always anticipating what the future holds in relation to music education at the district level.

A 3 - year - old may be reading like a third grader or a 9 - year - old may be playing piano like an 18 - year - old who has studied for years.

The interior is a study in black: the inlays are carbon and the fascia framing the instrument cluster in the instrument panel sports a piano finish.

At the BMW stand models continue to tumble with the launch of the M5, unveiling of the BMW Vision ConnectedDrive concept study the presentation of the limited - edition BMW Individual 7 Series Composition inspired by piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons.

Devotion to the complicated passions of his characters has led Allen Kurzweil to take courses in pop - up book design, study the repair of player - pianos and work behind the reference desk of a public library.

We're told that learning is all self - discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital.

Studies have shown that classical music, especially the piano, has a calming effect on canines.

A national BARD research study showed that classical music with a slow tempo (50 - 60 beats per minute) and very simple arrangements, such as a solo piano piece, significantly lowered stress levels in animals.

In her free time, Dr. Kroeger enjoys playing the piano, reading both classic and Christian novels, attending Bible study at church, scrapbooking, bike riding and hiking the tallest mountain peaks in different states with her sisters.

Dr. Thompson has won numerous grants to support his research, continuing education, and teaching, including a U-M-Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Faculty Development Fund to support «Teaching Private Piano Lessons using Video Game Piano Transcriptions,» a UMOR Small Grant to Support Major Conferences to help fund «Hosting the 5th annual North American Conference on Video Game Music at U-M in 2018,» a U-M Center for Japanese Studies Faculty Research Grant to support «Recording of Recently Composed Japanese Oboe / Piano Duos,» an SMTD Faculty Block Grant to support «Translation of Japanese Video Game Piano Collections,» and multiple Arts at Michigan Course Connection grants that have allowed integration of live performances into his classroom teaching.

Thompson received masters and doctoral degrees from The University of Michigan in collaborative piano, studying with his long time mentor, Martin Katz.

Pedro continued his jazz studies (composition and piano) until 2006.

After three years in his home city music school, Pedro moved to Lisbon where he continued his classical studies in the National Conservatory for another four years with the famous composer Eurico Carrapatoso, considered one of the best living composition teachers in the world and piano with the Chopin expert, Melina Rebelo.

In August 2004, Martin, age 17, started his classical piano studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM).