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:

“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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been enjoying a great book by Norman Doidge called The Brain That Changes Itself.  Though not specifically focused on music, this book outlines new theory in neuroscience that indicates that our brains continue to develop throughout our lives, as opposed to some theories that assume that development ends after childhood. A great summer read, [...]

In case you missed the Nova/PBS webcast about the book “Musicophilia” by Oliver Sacks that I mentioned in my ad below, here are some additional sources of information about his important work: Here is a link to pre-order the DVD from Amazon (due out mid September): Nova: Musical Minds Here is a link to the [...]