Alyssa's Piano Concert

After Breanna's piano concert, it was Alyssa's piano concert.  This was also the last day of her JMC course which marks the 2 years completion of her course.  Currently, there were 6 students in the class and all will proceed to the next stage. JXC. One of the student was absent for the concert.

Alyssa was very brave.  She sang the song "Feeling Great Yeah!"and performed a piano piece "Little Red Shoe" both from book 4.

They also have some group performance using percussion instruments such as bells, tamberine and castanets.

Breanna's Piano Concert

26th September marked the last lesson for Breanna's piano class.  She has been taking the group lesson since 2006 when she was only 4 years old.  The first 2 years was JMC class and the following 2 years was JXC.  These were the students left from the original 12.

The students playing the ensemble piece "Waltzing Kittens"

Breanna also performed her solo piece on the Piano "Bacarolle"

FSS and Yamaha Grade 9 Piano Exam

This was alyssa practising her song 5 days before her FSS.  It was great improvement.

On 4th September, Alyssa went for her Fundamental Skill Survey (FSS) @ Yamaha Tampines.  Alyssa was sitting outside the classroom waiting for her turn.  It was a short test which took about 10 minutes.  The test included playing 2 self selected pieces on the electone, chords hearing test, sing a verse of the self selected song and solfege singing.  We were allowed to go in with her and she did it very well, although her singing could be a little bit louder.  Overall it was good but the result will only be out in 2 weeks time. Coincidentally, the tester happened to be Breanna's piano teacher. Not sure if she will grade her better..haha

2 days later, on 7th September, it was Breanna's piano practical exam for Yamaha Grade 9 which was also @ Yamaha Tampines. As it was a weekday and I was not able to take leave to accompany her there, 奶奶 brought her there instead. I called her immediately after the exam and the first thing she told me was "very scary"! She gave me all the details and it seemed that she had done quite okay except for the sight playing and rhythm hearing :(  Just hope for the best then.  During the exam, the student was required to play 2 songs (out of 3 self selected pieces), sight playing, chords improvisation, chords hearing as well as rhythm hearing whereby the tester will play a short rhythm and the student was required to play it back.

天下 End of Term 3 review

Last Friday, 天下 organised end of term 3 review which was a mini concert whereby the children performed what they had learnt during this term.  It was an hour performance and each class got to perform 3 儿歌 each. There was also a short play put up by all the teachers which was pretty funny.

This was one of the performances that Alyssa's class put up with : “六十六岁的陆老头”.

Piano Practise

The girls will be having their piano exam in 3 weeks time  Alyssa will be taking the Fundamental Skill Survey and Breanna will be taking her Yamaha Grade 9 practical exam.  They were practising their pieces and apparently still need some improvements.

Alyssa singing "Like the wind, like the rain"

Alyssa playing one of the 2 self selected piece "Little Red Shoes"

Breanna playing one of the exam pieces "Bacarolle" which is one of my favourite piece as well.

Breanna Ballet Class

Breanna took up Bebe Ballet Class at Yamaha @ Tampines Mall when she turned 3. 

She enjoyed the class but always complaint of aching legs when back

from lesson. Miss Tan, her ballet teacher commented that she was not too flexible

and thus required more effort to do the stretching. In order to free Breanna

and myself from this agony, she stopped learning after she completed her 1 year

course.