This year’s composition book is out! Over the course of the year, students write their own compositions, which we type up on computer and then arrange for publishing. Students wrote songs for a variety of instruments, including piano, clarinet, and clarinet duet. The cover art is always designed by the students also, and it’s always… Continue reading Composition book 2025
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Puffy the Puffin WWF practicing challenge 2025
This year’s World Wildlife Foundation challenge went really well! Students raised over a hundred dollars, and voted to adopt a Blue-Footed Booby! Congratulations to students on all their hard work practicing! To earn a dollar for the WWF, students had to practice a song 8 times during the week. The challenge took place over three… Continue reading Puffy the Puffin WWF practicing challenge 2025
Brainy Challenge 2024
Everyone did a great job with the Brainy the Octopus practicing challenge for this year! In total, students earned $76 for the foodbank with their practicing. Great job everyone! The food collected was dropped off at the Saskatoon Food Bank downtown. I’m looking forward to the next practicing challenge with students!
Brainy Challenge 2025
This year’s brainy challenge was a great success! Students practiced really hard! They had to practice a song 8 times to earn one dollar for the food bank from the studio. The challenge was three weeks long, and in total, we managed to earn over a hundred dollars for the food bank. Wow! great job… Continue reading Brainy Challenge 2025
Composer Elections 2024
Because this was an election year in Canada, students took part in an election in the studio! For our election, we studied music history! The four parties students could vote for were the Baroque Party, Classical Party, Romantic Party, and Modern Party. We studied the composers over in the lead up to the election, and… Continue reading Composer Elections 2024
New Practicing Challenge
We’ve started a new practicing challenge! Students are trying to play a piece 8 times this week, if they do so, the studio donates a dollar to the World Wildlife Foundation! Because the World Wildlife does symbolic adoptions for various animals! As such, we have chosen 4 animals. Students get one vote for every 8… Continue reading New Practicing Challenge
Brainy Challenge 2023
Everyone did really well this year during the Brainy Foodbank Practicing Challenge! Students were challenged to play a piece 8 times during a week. They had 3 weeks to complete these three challenges, and for each challenge completed earned one dollar for the foodbank from the studio. In total the students earned 58 dollars for… Continue reading Brainy Challenge 2023
June 2023
This has been a fun year in the studio! We had our first in-person recital since 2019, published our composition book, and had lots of fun learning great music this year! Our composition book was a fun project this year! All students had an opportunity to write their own music in the studio this year.… Continue reading June 2023
Brainy Challenge 2022
Thanks to all students who took part in this year’s Brainy Food Bank Practicing Challenge! Students this year earned over $55 dollars for the food bank! This challenge is named after studio mascot Brainy the Octopus. How did this work? Students recieved three practicing challenges over the course of three weeks. If they completed their… Continue reading Brainy Challenge 2022
Composition Book 2022
Students in the studio often work on compositions in lessons! Composing music is a great way for students to express themselves, to get a chance to utilize their creativity, and also to learn how to express their musical ideas. Some students write by ear, coming up with music in their heads or on their instruments… Continue reading Composition Book 2022