Cassiopea M. Bostan, Pianist: Cassiopea (10) plays Invention 1-J.S.Bach

Cassiopea M. Bostan, Pianist: Cassiopea (10) plays Invention 1-J.S.Bach: "This is Bach's first two-part invention. I enjoy playing Bach, I can feel the musical lines. It makes me happy playing this beautiful music..."

Cassiopea is playing the 1st Invention by J.S. Bach beautifully; cannot wait to hear the next invention she will work on.

Classical Piano Lessons.Com: Piano Scales Free Videos

Classical Piano Lessons.Com: Piano Scales Free Videos: "Please, enjoy a few of my FREE videos. Absolutely anyone can open up the book Play Piano In All Keys Scales Only by Eva Martin Hollaus fin..."

The Eva Martin Hollaus Piano Studio, Perris, CA, USA: Piano Guild completions May through July 13, 2011

The Eva Martin Hollaus Piano Studio, Perris, CA, USA: Piano Guild completions May through July 13, 2011: "Eva Martin Hollaus Piano Studio 2011 Guild audition results May through July 13, 2011 No years National Winner Gold ..."

Eva Martin Hollaus Piano Studio Piano Guild Results May through July 13, 2011

I am so glad the majority of guild auditions are over. Only a few students who could not test earlier will be testing at the end of July and in August.
I must admit everyone played beautifully and the hard work paid off.  All I can tell you as a teacher is: I wish I had had this opportunity in my childhood and teens. But out of my struggles came the answers and I am very grateful for my journey. My focus is on sharing my knowledge and get it distributed to whomever wishes to listen.

Here are our results; so far 20 gold medals (that is 10 - 15 pieces performed) and a total of 244 pieces prepared and judged. Still more pieces to get ready -- and my reward? It is hearing my students perform beautifully; that is very rewarding to me. A gigantic thank you, to the parents who needed to make certain practice happened. Even the most responsible talents still require a parental coaxing and sometimes greater push to stay motivated and practice.

If you are wondering how I can get so many students prepared, please take a look at Play Piano In All Keys Complete Workbook that greatly facilitates all teaching and learning of scales chords/cadences and arpeggios and that is the core tool to help students progress so quickly and accomplish so much in a short time. All students except Elementary A students tested on scales, chords/cadences and everyone performing 10 - 15 pieces also performed arpeggios, except my Elementary C student. I was happy that he managed the scales; next year we will add the arpeggios for the white keys.

When I was little, on the contrary no teacher could really explain to me the importance of practicing scales, chords/cadences and arpeggios. Now, that I am teaching, it is all starting to make sense. I am very grateful to the piano guild program that requires scales and cadences and also scales, chords/cadences and arpeggios in lieu of pieces. These skills are easy to master using the book Play Piano In All Keys Complete Workbook, available at: http://playpianoinallkeys.com/complete-workbook/

Here are the results:

Eva Martin Hollaus Piano Studio 2011 Guild audition results May through July 13, 2011
No years   National Winner Gold Medal			Classification		# pieces
	Judge: Sylvia Barton	Temecula, CA May 13, 2011
6	Chloe Lovato	Intermediate C	IC	National	10
5	Cynthia Nguyen Phan	Intermediate Special	IS	National	10
5	Kathleen Nguyen Phan	Intermediate C	IC	National	10
5	Stacey Nguyen Phan	Elementary Special	ES	National	10
	Judge: Rita E. Fendrick	Clearwater, FL May 19, 2011
1	Geroge Bostan II	Elementary C	EC	National	10
3	Cassiopea A. Bostan	Intermediate Special	IS	International	15
	Judge: Jean Shackleton	Riverside, CA May 21, 2011
6	Ranen Unger Hicks	Intermediate Special	IS	National	10
	Judge: Sylvia Barton	Monterey Park, CA June 12, 2011
0	Vishakh Pillai	Intermediate B	IB	District	5
1	Vinayak Pillai	Intermediate E	IE	District	5
	Judge: Valerie Vaughan	San Diego - Escondido, CA July 8, July 13 2011
2	Patrick Xu	Preparatory Special	PS	International	15
1	Charys Hong	Elementary A	EA	National	10
1	Rachel Hong	Elementary A	EA	National	10
1	Juliette Beucler	Preparatory B	PB	National	10
5	Andrew Vu	Preparatory B	PB	National	10
5	Nessa Vu	Intermediate C	IC	National	10
4	Victoria Vu	Intermediate C	IC	State	9
5	Kelly Rausch	Intermediate A	IA	National	10
6	Thulasi Yogarajah	Intermediate B	IB	National	10
1	Adam Ghilarducci	Intermediate C	IC	National	10
3	Brittany Durgiah	Intermediate A	IA	District	5
8	Bret Paddock	Preparatory C	PC	International	15
6	Mitchell Johnson	Preparatory A	PA	National	10
3	Anais Perkins	Intermediate B	IB	National	10
9	Sai Sivapalan	Preparatory Special	PS	International	15
			total pieces performed		244

Piano Guild IF- Scales Musicianship Phase, Cynthia Phan (13)

Cynthia Phan (13) performing Major scales, harmonic minor and melodic minor scales, three octaves in the circle of fifths. She learned all scales fingering using the Play Piano In All Keys Complete Workbook fingering charts. Using this book to prepare Cynthia's piano playing technique made learning scales easy and fun and effortless. Play Piano In All Keys Fingering Charts took the chore out of learning scales. Cynthia has only started paying piano 4.5 years ago. She is a student of Eva Martin Hollaus.

Piano Guild IF- Arpeggios Musicianship Phase, Cynthia Phan (13)

Cynthia Phan, age 13 performing her Piano Guild arpeggios musicianship phase requirements. Cynthia Phan is a student of Eva Martin-Hollaus. She started playing piano 4.5 years ago. Cynthia enjoys playing arpeggios since she found they were very easy to learn using Eva Martin's book Play Piano in All Keys Complete Workbook. Learning arpeggios with the large, easy to read fingering charts, was an easy task for Cynthia. The book is available at www.playpianoinallkeys.com

Piano Guild IF - Chords/ Cadences Musicianship Phase, Cynthia Phan (13)

Cynthia Phan, age 13 has been playing piano since 4.5 years and is a student of Eva Martin-Hollaus. She enjoys playing piano and participating in various piano festivals and competitions. This year marks her 5th participation in the National Piano Playing auditions in which she performed the chords and cadences in this video. Cynthia learned all her piano chords using Eva Martin's book Play Piano In All Keys Complete Workbook. Cynthia has performed annually in the Piano Guild auditions with a 10 piece program each year. She also completed the MTAC Certificate of Merit (TM) Level 9 this year. Eva Martin's book uses fingering charts that allow a streamlined approach to learning piano technique. Simply progress three times as fast with Play Piano In All Keys Complete Workbook.