New Arts Tax Credit Introduced
The Canadian government recently introduced the Canadian Children’s Arts Tax Credit (CATC), a new, non-refundable tax credit based on expenses paid for the cost of registration of children in an Continue Reading →
Category: education
New learning tool on the horizon, teaching hand position through electronic stimulus
This one sounds like something out of science fiction, but it is not. WANT to learn a musical instrument, but can’t find the time to practise? A device now under Continue Reading →
How Much Should you Practice?
2 hours? 4 hours? 8 hours? 12 hours?How much is enough?Is there such a thing as practicing too much?Is there an optimal number of hours that one should practice? What Continue Reading →
Sensory Deprivation Boosts Musicians’ Skill Level
Canadian researchers report floating in an isolation tank increased the technical skill level of young jazz players. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Everybody knows the standard answer. But Continue Reading →
Bribing the Kids, Research shows Stickers Work!
Ah! All of you piano teachers out there who give away “stickers” to your young students to positively enforce the development of good practice habits and good technique, well you Continue Reading →
Royal Conservatory of Music’s exam system to become standard for U.S. music schools
From the Globe and Mail Saturday March 26 When New York’s famed Carnegie Hall decided the United States’ patchwork of state music programs should have a national system to unite Continue Reading →
Sistema in Scotland
Venezuela’s El Sistema project is now being exported around the world. The concept is to give free music lessons to students in very impoverished neighborhoods to give the children a Continue Reading →
Canadian students do well in International Survey
It seems our students in Canada are fairing much better than our friends to the south in the US. Recent results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) show Continue Reading →
Music Festivals in BC
Here is a list of local music festivals for 2010- 2011 compiled by the folks at Long & Mcquade Music Stores. Festival list 2010-11 – pdf download
Study – Students are failing to learn in American Universities
If the purpose of a college education is for students to learn, academe is failing, according to Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, a book being released today by Continue Reading →