February 25, 2026

Group Class: Feb 28th / Mar 1st

  1. Mozart: mm. 1-65 performance ready.

  2. I Dreamed a Dream: mm. 1-16 hands together.

🟩Somewhere Only We Know

  1. Measures 9-16

    1. LH, RH, then HT for each measure then speed-build.

    2. Focus on tidy attacks

    3. Keep LH close to the keyboard with less wrist movement.

  2. Measure 20: what are the chords?

  3. Complete up to m. 24 both staves

  4. Practice playing!

🟨Les Miserables, I Dreamed a Dream:

  1. 🟨mm. 1-16 hands together with no pauses.

  2. Learn up to m. 21 hands together.

🟩Like Him (recital piece)

  1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

  2. Cleaner pedaling

  3. More accuracy in the post-chorus section.

  4. Make your softs more exaggerated.

  5. Careful that the LH doesn’t overpower the RH.

🟩🟪Mozart Sonata, No. 11 in A Major, III. Rondo: Alla Turca

  1. 🟩MM. 51-56 expression! Apply all dynamics and articulations hands alone then together. Then speed-build!

  2. 🟪Refine mm. 89-96 - Do accent practice and sprints, gradually making your section bigger until you can play the whole thing. Start with RH alone. Then do it together.

  3. 🟪hands together; you might want to play through quickly and then just notice where you need to have “points-of-arrival” practice.

  1. Mice on Venus from Minecraft, arr. Sam Hodgkinson (P. Choice)

  2. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)

  3. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn (L. 4, Etude)

  4. Solitude by Joyce Grill (b. 1936) (L. 4, Etude)

Level 4, Practical Test: May 29, 2024

  1. List A: Minuet in G Major by J. S. Bach

  2. List B: Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 no. 1 “Moderato cantabile” by Anton Diabelli

  3. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer

  4. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn

  5. Etude 2: Solitude by Joyce Grill

Level 3, Practical Test: June 2023 ( score of 87)

  1. List A: J. S. Bach, Polonaise in F Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)

  2. List B: Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 by Albert Biehl (L. 3, B)

  3. List C: Wild Mignonette, Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)

  4. Etude: Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 2, L’Arabesque (Etude, L. 3)

  5. Etude: Prelude VII by Barbara Arens (b. 1960) (L. 3, Etude)