I encourage students to arrange their own version of familiar tunes. In our piano beginner book 2, we teach students to play happy birthday song, learn about chords and make up their own versions with the chords.
“O Mio Babbino Caro” is a famous aria from Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”. I love singing and playing this piece. Enjoy!
We are having our first piano student concert of 2020 on June 6 (Saturday) at 3pm at Harvest Baptist Church in Gunbarrel, Boulder. Miss Teresa Wong will also be performing some of her original piano compositions, and with her chamber sextet group, including Astor Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons”. Selected piano students of Miss Teresa Wong will… Continue reading Piano Student Concert 2020
I use Steinway grand piano at my studio. And here is the waiting area.
A short piano improv composition by me called “Innocenza”. Enjoy!
I wrote this collection of piano music a few years back. Mui Wo is a place on a tiny little outlying island in Hong Kong. I used to go there whenever I had a break from my busy piano teaching life. It has beautiful beaches, enjoyable hikes and lots of cows meandering around. It’s quite… Continue reading Teresa Wong Piano: Mui Wo Suite (Complete)
I am very glad to have received quite a number of adult piano students in the past month. Some of them are new to piano, while others had some piano lessons in the past.
I have a new YouTube channel to showcase my piano students’ playing and performances. Check it out here! Meanwhile, I have another YouTube channel for global teaching. You can find it here.
Solfège, solfeggio, or so-fa names – they all refer to the same thing – the system of singing notes of a scale in “Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti”. Remember the song in “The Sound of Music”? Like “do, a deer, a female deer; (Re!) ray, a drop of golden sun”? … Yes, whenever… Continue reading What is solfège?
There is a general misconception about classical music. “It’s boring.” “It’s for the elite.” (“high-class”). “It’s old. Who wants to listen to that?” “I don’t understand it.” “I don’t play an instrument, so I don’t get it.” Classical music is just another music genre, like jazz, hip hop, rock, pop, world. Of course, in the… Continue reading Classical Music: Sacred or Scary?
