by Whitney Hawker | Aug 11, 2020 | Interview
An Interview With A Teacher So you’re the festival chair for your local music teacher’s committee and you’ve just found out this year, everything will be online. All music festivals, all music competitions, and even the theory test needs to be done...
by Whitney Hawker | Aug 7, 2020 | Competition
When you bring up the topic of competitions, what responses do you get from your students? Often I hear, “We’re just so busy already” or “That just sounds stressful for my child.” Sometimes it seems like the parent remembers a depressing experience when competing and...
by Whitney Hawker | Jul 30, 2020 | Adjudicating
3 Tips for Adjudicating Your First Online Festival It’s an exciting day – the day when you are asked to adjudicate a virtual festival for the first time! Never dreamed of the day you could listen to great recordings at home & share your feedback right there?...
by Whitney Hawker | Jul 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
How To Organize a Virtual Piano Festival Any other music teachers out there, wondering how you’re going to run the Fall Festival this year? Or the Sonatina Festival, the Solo & Ensemble events – it’s hard to know what the rest of the year even will look like...