I'm thrilled to announce that Studio DiPaolo is making arrangements for a partnership with the Emily Marie Bivens Memorial Foundation to grant one-year scholarship opportunities for current, former, or prospective members of Studio DiPaolo with financial need. This scholarship generally seeks out precollege-age students, but I've inquired about possible funding for older students with demonstrated financial need as well.
The Emily Marie Bivens Memorial Foundation, established in memory of a talented pianist and teacher whose life was cut short, selects and awards one-year studio tuition scholarships to students with financial need who are seeking private instruction, currently with a piano/violin/cello focus, but expanding into studios that offer theory and composition as well. In addition, if needed, the Foundation will furnish a keyboard for each selected student. A direct link to the music scholarship information page of the foundation website is https://embmfoundation.org/music-scholarship/ - there is a button to access the form, when applications are open, on that page. To my knowledge, this scholarship is specific to students residing in the United States, although I'm happy to inquire if you are outside the US and otherwise believe your situation may be a good fit for the scholarship.
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I'm pleased to announce that leading up into May 2024, Studio DiPaolo will be transitioning all students to Google Meet as the default videoconferencing platform if they are not already using it. Studio DiPaolo will be combining Google Meet with Epic Pen software for robust on-screen annotation that rivals Zoom's. This move will address some audio and access issues with Zoom faced by an increasing number of students while keeping studio operating costs reasonable enough to continue offering accessible tuition rates. Google's automatic meeting reminders will also be of great help to busy students and families. I'm looking forward to completing this transition!
8/26/2023 Nocturne in G# minor is published through EVC Music, LAUNCH on 9/18/23 in London's Steinway HallRead NowThis is a bit of a duplicate, since I normally post this type of news on my artist website's news page. However, the book and piece in question are pedagogical in nature and are also of potential interest to those following my studio website:
The 22 Nocturnes for Chopin collection, which includes my Nocturne in G# minor, is now available in hard copy from EVC Music! Grab yours at musicroom.com here: https://www.musicroom.com/22-nocturnes-for-chopin-piano-solo-evc050 - and the volume is also available at through Hal Leonard Europe, at Forsyth's and at evcmusic.com for direct purchase. Distribution on Amazon is forthcoming and the book launch concert, featuring a selection of the book played by Rose McLachlan, will be taking place on September 18th, 2023 at 1:30pm GMT at Steinway Hall in London. I'm absolutely thrilled to be in such great company as a featured composer in this volume. See this beautiful review by Andrew Eales at PianoDao that just came in for the 22 Nocturnes. Full review here: https://pianodao.com/2023/08/23/22-nocturnes-for-chopin/ "...Suffice to say that the 22 pieces included here met with a strong consensus from the whole Selection Committee, and even though we each had a few pieces which we were especially keen to fight for, the final selection offers a potpourri that we agree deserve and are highly likely to enjoy very wide appeal. It is equally my expectation that these pieces will grace recital programmes, festival and exam lists in the coming years, and find an enduring place in the musical life of the piano community. There’s no doubt in my mind that an investment in this collection is one that will well and truly pay off for any advanced pianist, and that many of these works will quickly establish themselves as firm favourites in the repertoire. ...It was of course a wonderful honour to be invited to serve in the selection of these works. That the finished product offers the 22 brilliant Nocturnes with such accomplished finesse further adds to my joy at the collection’s release. How appropriate that such superb music is given so enduring a presentation: this really is a book to cherish. 22 Nocturnes for Chopin is in my view a landmark publication, one which deserves to make a huge mark in our musical lives, and which I believe will make a seminal impact in the piano world. Don’t miss it!" In another "latergram" post--I'm thrilled to announce that my third Tonebase guest blog post, a guide to practice strategies, is now up! Click here to view the post: https://www.tonebase.co/piano-blog-posts/piano-practice
I certainly couldn't be completely exhaustive in my survey of practice strategies, but I hope some of these will be useful for you! Some more exciting news at Studio DiPaolo: Google Meet is now available as an additional Zoom and Forte alternative, and it is ideal for piano students on older laptops whose age and processing power are coping poorly with Zoom's more recent updates. Composition/theory/partimento students may inquire and switch to Google Meet on a case-by-case basis, depending on how much on-screen annotation is traditionally used in each lesson. In some cases, I may make the suggestion to try Google Meet.
This is quite an overdue post, but I was invited to contribute to Tonebase a second time and create a guide to beginning an online teaching practice. Normally this information is only available to teachers who enroll in my paid coaching, so this is a very valuable resource for new or future online instructors!
Check out the blog post here: https://www.tonebase.co/piano-blog-posts/how-to-teach-piano-from-home Along those lines, I'm also freeing up a couple Tuesday afternoon slots starting in late December. If you're interested in customized online studio coaching, or simply lessons in any of the areas I teach, let's get in touch through the Contact/Enroll form! I'm thrilled to announce that the call for papers/presentations has gone out for the first-ever Historical Improvisation Conference, to take place online on November 19th and 20th, 2022. I'm on the organizing board and program committee for this conference. You can check out the Call for Papers/Presentations here.
I'm pleased to share that I've been invited to become a regular contributor to the Tonebase piano blog, for which I'll write on various pedagogy-related topics. My first post provides ideas on how to start composing music for the piano. Click here to access the article and enjoy!
Studio DiPaolo has entered an exciting time in its development: in-person multi-teacher studio enrollments are now closed and, going forward, all new students will be accepted online only. This change, of course, only affects students local to the Cleveland area who may have been considering face-to-face options.
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