May 9, 2026

Final Recital: May 30th, 2:00-3:30pm

⬛️Somewhere Only We Know

  1. Pause until after the recital

🟩Les Miserables, I Dreamed a Dream: Recital hopeful! :)

  1. (m.m. 100 per 8th note: final tempo from m. 19)

  2. Pages 1-2: spot the the areas with orange pen slashes and review the rest that you have learned.

  3. Learn, one measure at a time, the last three systems of the piece by May 13th.

🟪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 (recital)

  1. With all rolled chords and notes with grace notes: let go of them once rolled. Do this with a forward wrist. Speed-build 108-112

  2. See recordings in Newzik if needed.

  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)