The Simplissimo Blog
Our thoughts about festivals and so much more.
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 online... But how?! With Simplissimo,...
Why Music Students Need Competitions
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...
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? Well with the new online music festival option from...
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 at this point! Music is vital, it’s essential...