May 13, 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. mm. 50-51 - spot section - slow with repetition. Isolate smaller sections if needed.

  2. mm. 30-38, 38-48 - learn these two sections.

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

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

🟩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. 89-96 - practice bottom note of RH alone, throw/tapping with loose approach. Then add the top note with a focus on maintaining the bottom note relaxation.

  2. 🟨Focus on the last page for accuracy and pause elimination.

  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)