Photo of the Day

I took this picture yesterday at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto using an iPhone 6 with tilt-shift and filter added using TiltShiftGen2 ....

Opera + Hardcore Punk

Congrats to Toronto's Tapestry Opera on making the CBC Arts list of 10 artists reshaping Canada's artistic landscape for their rec...

Art Song + Dressage Riding

Dressage rider Audrey Zehnder is the backdrop for Lori Laitman's Old Tunes, as performed by soprano Natalie Mann and pianist Jeffrey Pa...

Study for Orchestra by Julia Perry

William Steinberg leading the New York Philharmonic in a poignant and energetic 1965 performance of  Julia Perry's  Study for Orchestra:...

Happy New Year 2016!

One of the great things about the new year is that no matter how challenging or disappointing the previous 12 months have been, the promise ...

Ask the Readers: How to Divide a Staff Accompanist Position Between Vocal and Instrumental Duties?

piano by antony griffiths on Flickr A reader recently sent in a question for the readership of the blog, which is copied below with identi...

Yevgeny Kutik on Practicing

‘Practice’ has become a very misleading word. What is practice? It took me a very long time to figure this out. As an advanced student, prac...