Gallery

A showcase of students, recitals, lessons, and awards

plus a few cats, too!

Showtime! Zoom Recital So fun! Performers played Broadway, Movie Soundtracks & Greatest Hits! Nov. 2020	Zoom Group Lesson! Group Lessons on Zoom, during the Covid-19 pandemic.	penguin metronome Clara got a new metronome!	Piano Workbook done Lydia proudly showing her work!
Princess Leia Izzie ready to play Imperial March for Halloween 2020!	2020 Lunar New Year Recital Performers at the 2020 Lunar New Year recital	Group Lessons Group Lesson games!	Group Lesson games! playing note name speed games with puzzle erasures
Students at Indian Hill Music My talented, dedicated, special group of students, last recital at Indian Hill Music 2019	Ananya's Senior Recital My incredibly dedicated, talented, long-time student Ananya after her Senior Recital, 2019	Sarafina Little Mozarts Competition Recital 2019	Ananya @ Carnegie Hall 2015 Winner's Recital for the Protege International Piano Competition, in Weil Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC
Carnegie Hall performance! My 15 year old student, Lee, won the American Protege Piano Competition and performed Haydn in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in NYC, May 2014.	Amelia - Senior Recital 2015 Amelia & me. It was a truly beautiful performance!	Amelia - Senior Recital 2015 Graduating after 10 years in my studio!	Group lesson performance Performance practice for friends!
with Cocone Cocone, at her last lesson before going back to Japan.	Halloween Piano Party Halloween Piano Party 2019	witch costume at the 2018 Halloween Piano Party	Cocone & Puzzle Erasure Notes
Annika having fun practicing She's using her special rock collection to play a game of counting correct repetitions of her practice!	Cocone & Annika at the 2018 Junior 1 NEPTA Recital.	Group Lessons 2018 Group Lessons!	Allison, 1st place winner! at the MMTA 2018 Judged Festival, in her age 7-10 division, performing Sheftel's Nocturne.
Jessica, 2nd place winner! at the 2018 MMTA Judged Festival, in her age 13-16 division, performing Debussy's Arabesque No.1.	Ananya, 2nd place winner! at the MMTA 2018 Judged Festival, in her 15-18 age Division, performing Debussy's Clair De Lune.	Cocone - monkey practice Use a Barrel of Monkeys for counting correct repeats during practice!	December 2017 Recital at Indian Hill Music
Jessica 2nd Place! at MMTA Judged Festival 2017	Sarafina 3rd Place! at MMTA Judged Festival 2017	Estella 3rd Place! at MMTA Judged Festival 2017	Indian Hill Spring Recital 2017
Rebecca & Miriam Two wonderful adult students, who enjoyed performing duets.	Indian Hill Competition Winners! Jessica, Sarafina & Ameesha were selected winners and performed at the Competition Winners' Recital 2017.	Chinese Recital 2017 at Indian Hill, to celebrate the Chinese/Lunar New Year, students performed traditional Chinese folk songs and other music by Chinese composers.	Veronica & Sarafina In traditional dress for the Chinese New Year Recital 2017
Estella & me after the 2015 December Recital	Halloween Piano & Guitar Party 2016 Costumes, candy and a concert!	Nur the Butterfly at the Halloween Party 2016	Sarafina - 1st Place 2016 MMTA Judged Festival
2015 Studio Recital A few of the students who performed at Johnson Strings Recital Hall, Newton, MA	Who's helping me practice? Timber loves music! He especially loves to watch all the hammers and dampers move inside.	Pian-Olympics winners! so many medals ... Megan was the Grand Champion winner (holding the trophy)!	Pian-Olympics awards! Everyone competed in "events" for practicing, memorizing, and lesson scores.
2015 June Recital @ Indian Hill A great bunch of students!	Studio Masterclass 2015 With our wonderfully talented guest teacher, Houry Schmeizl! What a memorable afternoon.	Ananya - Honorable Mention 2015 MMTA Bay State Competition	Sananda - Highest Score! She got the highest score for her level in the state of Massachusetts!
Amelia - 1st Place 2015 MMTA Judged Festival	Ameesha - 2nd Place 2015 MMTA Judged Festival	Jessica - Honorable Mention 2015 MMTA Judged Festival	Sarafina - Honorable Mention 2015 MMTA Judged Festival
Josh monkeying around In the lesson, using the practice toy, Barrel of Monkeys, for repetition practice. He got 10x correct!	Pippa a.k.a. Studio Manager - She's supervising all the administrative work!	Postcards from Spain Concert With my husband, Will Riley, after our recital at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2012.	Postcards from Spain My performance included pieces by Debussy and Granados
Highest Score in Massachusetts! Sananda received the HIGHEST score for her Level 3 RCM piano exam in the whole state of Massachusetts, in 2013. Congratulations!!	3 talented girls! Ananya, Ameesha & Sananda love piano, and I love teaching them! They're showing off the medals they won in the Practice Challenge.	Practice Challenge Gold! The twins, Tyler & Josh, show off their Gold medals	Nothing to be sorry about, there! One of my students came to his lesson with this shirt, and I just had to take a picture.
Practice Challenge helper My cat, Babette, loves helping during lessons! Here, she's supervising stickers and the chart during Practice Challenge.	Halloween Piano Party 2011 As you can see, we dress up in costumes. Everyone enjoys performing Halloween themed music, and then we play games and have yummy desserts!	Technician in training Uh, oh - she's not supposed to be in there!	Avril Allard & Me At our Bach Double-Keyboard Concerto performance
Conductor, Bruce Hangen & me At the Bach Double-Keyboard Concerto concert.