Larson Family Archives

Brigham L. Wins an iPad!

We recently posted about our students who competed in and were chosen as finalists for the Piano Marvel YouTube Competition. In addition to the monetary prizes awarded to the winners in each age group category, each contestant in the competition was also entered into a drawing for an iPad. One of our students to be […]

Join Our Christmas Sing-Along!

Are you ready for our annual Christmas Sing-Along? Started several years ago by the Larson family, this tradition has been a huge success! The Sing-Along will be held on Monday, December 11 at 7:00 p.m. Piano conservatory students, families, and friends are welcome to attend! Check out our Facebook Event for more information. For current […]

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Gathering Families Around the Piano

As a follow up to our earlier blog post from this week, we wanted to share this family musical experience! One way to have positive family musical experiences is to gather as a family around a piano. The Larson family shared this endearing video with us this week of their family gathering around a piano […]

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Piano Lessons Facilitate Family Musical Experiences

If you are familiar with the story of how Utah Piano Conservatory came to be, you will know that one motivating factor behind the conservatory is “Facilitating Positive Musical Experiences for Families”. Our director and her family have chosen music lessons as the tool to help their family develop talents and important qualities. Piano families at […]

The High Scorer at Today’s Piano Lesson

Brigham scored 550 on the SASR today during piano lessons! The SASR, short for Standard Assessment of Sight Reading, is one of the many features students use on Piano Marvel at Piano Academy. Piano Marvel is an application that uses a computer or iPad, and a digital piano to aid in learning the piano. Students […]

Congrats to Jo-Jo on Completing Piano Safari Book One!

This week was a big one for Jo-Jo – he completed his LAST piece in the first Piano Safari book! Jo-Jo has been working on this book as part of the Preschool Piano Academy curriculum for a little over a year, and had to learn and perfect almost 80 pieces to complete it! Check out […]

Preschool Piano Lessons Play

Louis started Preschool Piano Academy this week! As his mother says, “His life now revolves around piano lessons!” Like other Piano Academy students, Louis rotates through the lesson rooms. He has a solo teacher, a pass-off teacher, and a technique teacher. He also spends time in the theory lab. Preschool students use the “Piano Safari” […]

Welcome to Honors Piano Lessons, Joshie!

Last week while I was teaching, Joshie came into my office, handed me this note, and walked back out: I responded as soon as I could between students and left the note on my desk for him to take. (What I didn’t know is that Joshie had been trying to come in and talk to […]

Congratulations to Abby on her solo recital!

Here at the Piano Academy, we believe that performing is one of the best parts about learning to play the piano – and our students get to do it often! Besides our quarterly Community Outreach performances and formal Piano Academy recitals, students who have learned several pieces have the option to prepare for a solo […]

Building Musical Traditions – The Larson Family Christmas Caroling Debut…

Growing up, our neighbors and friends, the Hastings family, would come each year with treats and beautiful 4 part harmonies to share with us. We looked forward to their porch visits each year. Well…. we are not quite yet ready to boast 4 part harmonies, but we were brave this year and started a new […]