Recording Challenge

I hope my students are all recording themselves making music at home during this time! It doesn't have to be fancy, but I would love if you would share it with me!

In fact, I challenge you to send me a video of yourself making music!  If you do, I will record myself practicing or performing something and share it here.

In the meantime, I thought I would share some videos of my kids making music in our home and links to their teachers.

This is my 15-year-old son Caeden practicing Guitar before an online Zoom lesson April 2nd with his teacher, Michael Hull. 

You can also check out Mr. Hull's YouTube Channel. He is an amazing classical guitarist and teacher!  We are very fortunate that Caeden has been able to study with him for over 7 years now.

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In February, my daughter Sylvia competed in the Bloomington Normal Youth Symphony Howard Rye Concerto Competition playing the Haydn Cello Concerto and won! That meant she would perform as the featured cello soloist with the orchestra on their concerts in May.  We are so proud of her, and so sad that she will now not have that opportunity, as the orchestra's spring concerts have been canceled due to the shelter-in-place order.

Here is Sylvia practicing the Bach Cello Suite (No. 2) at home, April 6th. 

Sylvia has studied cello with Dr. Adriana La Rosa Ransom for 6 years (after studying violin for 5). Dr. Ransom is Professor of Cello and Director of String Project and the Community School for the Arts at Illinois State University, and has been a wonderful teacher for Sylvia! 

In 2017, Sylvia and I attended an Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Dr. Glenn Block. Dr. Ransom was the featured cello soloist for the world premier of a piece by Carl Schimmel called "There Was, and There Was Not" for solo cello and full orchestra. You can read about and watch this performance here: There Was, and There Was Not

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My daughter Annah is a college freshman studying Music Education. This year she has been at Greenville University studying voice with Caitlin Hadeler. Since she is not on campus now for the last quarter of the year, she had to record a performance of one of the songs she's working on in her voice lessons to be used in an online recital. We have really enjoyed listening to her learn this very difficult piece while at home: The Beauty Is from A Light In the Piazza.

I am so happy to be working with Annah some again while she is at home, and am excited to do both piano and voice lessons with her this summer before she begins school at SIUe--hopefully this fall!

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Remember, the point of this post is my challenge to you, my students!
I challenge you to send me a video of yourself making music!  If you do, I will share your video with permission, and also record myself practicing or performing something and share it here!  Maybe we can have our own virtual recital soon!