The Long Hot Summer

Parents:  your kids are home, the weather is hot, and you need a break from their complaints of boredom.   It's a perfect time to take some piano lessons.  Especially when a student has two or more lessons/week for a couple of weeks, he or she sees tangible results.  The teachers also add some light and engaging pieces or activities during this time, so be sure to check out the on line sign-up sheet or call either Ms Q or Katy.

Summer for the teachers also brings a change of pace.  Katy Stephan is working at a theater camp in Lafayette where the children are putting on Chorus Line on July 7 and 8.  She also is teaching at the summer camp for Piedmont Children's Choir participants.

Katy is accompanying for an exceptional operatic baritone, Hadleigh Adams on July 23rd at 2 pm in Pleasanton.  Mr. Adams will be singing a Broadway program, which should be fun for everyone.

http://www.firehousearts.org/events/hadleigh-adams-classical-broadway/

Because of Katy's additional jobs, Ms Queener is currently lucky enough to a teach some of her students.  Of course, when Katy is in the studio, she gets to teach some of Ms Q's students!  It's fun for both teachers.

Ms. Q also is preparing for her trip to Portugal in mid August.  There, among many delights, she will enjoy hours of music from her nephew and his wife, who are professional jazz and classical pianists.  Also, the wife's father, a renowned guitarist in Portugal, will certainly perform.  These concerts are often in very exotic settings; a few years ago she heard the guitarist play in an under-ground cistern (don't worry, without the water) of an old fort.  The sound was heavenly!

Before we know it, summer will be ending and the regular piano classes will return to their set schedules.  Be on the look out in mid August for the calendars!

Happy 4th to all.