We are extremely excited to be the only authorized Yamaha Music Group school in Airdrie. This will be our first year of launching this wildly successful program in Skyline Music. Yamaha Music groups run across 4o countries internationally. Yamaha Music Education programs began in 1966 in Canada and the Yamaha Music Education System has an […]
It’s 2018 and we are back in full swing. This coming season will be our 3rd year running the Airdrie location. We are very excited to welcome our Calgary students, as well as our current and new Airdrie students under one location. This term, we will be warming up our fingers to the sounds of […]
A really great article about managing stage fright in performance situations.
We see amazing pianists sitting at pianos with their hands flying off and on, full of energy and exuberance. We see heavy metal guitarists “banging” their heads to the beat, and we even see delicate violin players with their necks twisted sideways to hold their violins while they jam out some Paganini. Did you know, […]
We hear it a lot. Sight reading. What does that mean? Sight reading means exactly the same as a “cold read” if you are in the theatre. You pick up a book you have never seen or read before, open a page and…read it. Word for word. In music lessons, sight reading is the same […]
Here is a great article on the importance of piano lessons! Evidence based research all points towards the benefits of learning an instrument for the mind, body, spirit and lifestyle. Whether it’s learning the piano or the flute, or even how to sing, the mere art of learning a creativity based skill will ALWAYS change […]
The CATC has changed for 2016 and 2017.
Great instruments are always around the corner! Used or new, find that special piano.
Music, as they say, is just black and white notes on paper. But how do we understand what those “just black and white notes” really mean?
