Category: SE22 Piano School

Jazzy Christmas Tunes for Piano Students

The start of the new half-term means it’s officially time to crack(er) out the jazzy Christmas tunes. I must admit I’ve been tempted to try and slip these into lessons back in September but I’ve managed to resist until now! We have 7 lessons coming up until Christmas so there’s plenty of time to get stuck into learning these great tunes.

My favourite book of jazzy Christmas tunes has to be Nikki Iles’s Jazz on a Winter’s Night Vol 1. I Saw Three Ships and In The Bleak Midwinter are my favourite – they’re not your usual jazzy Christmas fayre and they really appeal to my teenage students. I’d recommend this book for students at Grade 3 level and above. If you like this book then you should also look at Volume 2 of Jazz on a Winter’s Night that was published last year. Nikki has also arranged the same tunes from Volume 1 for violinists.

There’s a gorgeous version of Silent Night in A Jazzy Christmas. There’s also a 2nd volume of this book that I’ve just spotted so I’ve placed an order for that. I’ll let you know what it’s like when I’ve had a play through the pieces.

I also love Pam Wedgwood’s After Hours Jazz Christmas. Pam is well known for her compositions aimed at piano learners but this collection really comes into its own with quite challenging arrangements of everyone’s favourite tunes. It’s also very reasonably priced too.

Piano Festival Entries 2019

Here is a list of students that may like to the Clementi Junior Piano Competition in Kensington in March 2019.

Some of you started learning the pieces so do enter soon if you are keen to participate as there are limited numbers per class.

If you have entered the competition but not printed the pieces then I have included the links to the piece to print and bring to each lesson so that you can have it ready in time to perform.

Clementi Competition in Kensington. Class 1. 9 spaces available. [Enter]
Suggested piece to perform: Arietta in C (page 2 of this PDF)
Heidi, Ella W, Scarlett M, Scarlett F, Eleanor, Alexis, Alice, George
Already entered: Theo, Eva

Click to download PDF

Harpsichord Performance, Non-Competitive for Beginners. 6 spaces available.
Heidi, Ella W, Scarlett M, Scarlett F, Eleanor, Alexis, Alice, George, Theo, Eva
You can also play Arietta in a non-competitive harpsichord event in Bond Street.

 

What happens if I don’t pay my invoice for piano lessons on time?

We ask all students to pay their invoices by 5pm on the last Monday of each half-term.The payment deadline of 5pm on Monday allows us time to complete our bookkeeping and create the timetable for the following half-term. We email all parents before term ends with confirmation of lesson times.

As a small business, it takes a considerable amount of administrative time to chase late payments.  We allow a 24-hour window for chasing of late payments. After 5pm on Tuesday, we close our books to students that have not paid and begin the process of recruiting students from the waiting list. This ensures that our teachers have a full timetable without any gaps.

What happens if I don’t pay by 5pm on Monday?

  1. We will send you a reminder email on Tuesday morning to pay the invoice by close of business (5pm) on Tuesday.
  2. After 5pm, we will inform you by email that we are unable to hold your space open without payment. Late payment results in forfeiture of your lesson time.
  3.  Your lesson time will be offered to the waiting list. We will book in consultation lessons and issue invoices to be settled within 24 hours by new students requesting these times.
  4. If you wish to continue with lessons, please contact us to find out the available times for lessons.
A huge thank you to our students that settle their invoices on time. We really appreciate it!

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