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Greetings and welcome to Mountain View Piano. My name is Amanda Griffith, and I teach piano, guitar, woodwinds and voice to children and adults.
Fall Registration is Now Open! Call 650-964-1552 today for our Free Introductory Session. |
 Never Too Old to Learn the blues Thanks to my students Lia Escobar and Nina Haywood for hosting last Friday’s “Never Too Old to Learn the Blues” Piano party fundraiser for Bubb Elementary School’s Silent Auction. The 4th graders assisted me in teaching folks how to play a 12-bar blues song. A great time was had by all, especially when they played it on the 8-foot long floor piano. Thanks to all, and to Priya Mistry for the great photos, and to Gina Escobar for the delicious food!
Check out our first submission to the “Movie Music Project”! The Movie Music Project is a project of Mountain View Piano suggested by Jennifer Urmson, Ethan Urmson’s mom and my first guitar student/guitar friend:) The idea is to use the creation of short movies using video and photos from my student’s lives in combination with music that they play to create their own short movies. This album is a collection of those movies. Thank you to Jennifer, Ethan and Colin:), and also to Pam Clark, whose daughter Solene contributed our first movie!  Mountain View Piano at Mountain View Art & Wine Festival, 2012 Congratulations to all of my students who performed on Saturday, September 8th at the Mountain View Art and Wine Festival! Everyone did a great job, it was really fun and it was wonderful to see so many of your families and friends! Thanks for making such great music! Videos can be found here: https://vimeo.com/channels/mountainviewpiano
Amanda Griffith, Certified Simply Music Teacher Welcome to Mountain View Piano, offering piano, guitar, flute and voice lessons using the revolutionary “Simply Music” method. Fall Registration is open now. Call 650-964-1552 today to join one of our upcoming Free Introductory Sessions.
You are invited! Please join us on Saturday, September 8th at 3:00 when students of Mountain View Piano will be playing on the Community Stage in the Kids Park at the 41st Annual Mountain View Art and Wine Festival. It will be great fun. We look forward to see you there:)! http://www.miramarevents.com/mountainview/community-stage.html#.UC8N9JlMNto.facebook
Thanks to everyone who came out to last Sunday’s Mountain View Piano Summer Music Jam and Block Party! It was a great turnout and lots of fun. More photos and videos can be found on my Facebook page at: Thanks again for making so much terrific music!  Claire Gordon, Yanti Gordon, Amanda Griffith  Jazz Society of Santa Cruz, Amanda Griffith - Flute, Steve Newman - Saxaphone Last weekend I had an opportunity to play the song “Unforgettable” for Claire Gordon, the wife of songwriter Irving Gordon, and the woman for whom the song was written:) The occasion was a visit Claire made to the Jazz Society of Santa Cruz at my invitation to celebrate her 93rd Birthday! I met Claire through her Granddaughter-in-law, who is the nanny of one of my piano students, gave me her new novel entitled The Color of Music You can find my video on my Facebook page, as well as from the links below.
================================================ CHECK OUT THIS LINK! Jazz Soc. of Santa Cruz- facebook The occasion was that Jazz Soc director Mike Carder’s friend, the flutist Amanda Griffith came over with her friend CLAIRE GORDON and family. They all came from over the hill, but Claire who is in her early ninety’s is definitely not over the hill, Claire came to celebrate her birthday. The song was done because Claire was the wife of the composer Irving Gordon, who wrote “Unforgettable” for Claire! Claire brought some copies of her book My Unforgettable Jazz Friends which she wrote a few years ago. It is her memoire of a life linked with jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Dizzy, and countless others. It begins in Los Angeles in the late 30′s. It’s a fascinating, honest book of what life and music was like from then to now. Find out more about this great book here- http://www.myjazzfriends.com/ Besides this book, Claire also wrote a novel about jazz and race entitled The Color of Music – ClaireGordonJazz.com  Music of the Hemispheres “Even though listening to Mozart won’t make you smarter, a growing body of evidence suggests that playing his music will. Musical training doesn’t just make you a better musician — the acquired skills seem to transfer to other areas, various studies have found. And research focused on the brain’s particular relationship with music and language suggests that engaging the mind with musical training could remedy language impairments such as dyslexia.” See full article at Science News: Music of the Hemispheres
In this interview, Neil Moore talks with two-time GRAMMY Nominated jazz pianist, Taylor Eigsti. Regarded by many as a child prodigy, Taylor began studying piano at the age of four, and by age eight he was performing with internationally renowned jazz artists. At age 15 he joined the teaching staff at the Stanford Jazz Workshop at Stanford University. In this informal dialog, Taylor talks about his earliest experiences of learning music, as well as his thoughts on the future of music education. To listen to interview, click here.  Amanda Griffith, Accredited Simply Music Teacher This August, I attended the Stanford Jazz Workshop at Stanford University and had the opportunity to participate in Master Classes provided by some of the leading musicians in the world, including: George Cables – Piano Thanks to all of the fine instructors and students – it was a wonderful week! |
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It was a terrific event, and the video I created and the visit were covered in the Jazz Society’s weekly newsletter (see blurb below).