Hi everyone!
This last year has been a deciding time for me. I took some time to think a lot about which direction I wanted to move in, hence the lack of updates on here! Tried some different things and came to more of a place of clarity in my career.
Having come back from travels I did some classroom music teaching for a couple of terms while building up private afternoon/evening teaching in and around south London.
I decided classroom was not for me and focussed more on instrumental teaching as usual.
Currently teaching piano in a lovely prep school out in Farnham a day a week as well as private clarinet/piano teaching in the afternoon/evenings Monday-Thursday. In addition to this working on getting more teaching in a London based school.
The most exciting news is hatching finally in 2018... Have been thinking for a long while about doing some form of counselling course and so I've enrolled with a charity called Place2Be, completed their taster day last month and will start Level 2 in Children's Counselling on the 3rd February!
It is part time so I am lucky to have the time to dedicate to study while still doing all the teaching and songwriting alongside.
I am so excited to start this course and make a difference to young people in a different way... and get my study on again!
Promise to be better at keeping up with blogging in 2018.
With love,
Amy
Showing posts with label clarinet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clarinet. Show all posts
Monday, 8 January 2018
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Shots of Nicaragua and returning to London.
After an incredible 6 months away I'm back in London! Nicaragua completely exceeded my expectations and I know that everything I learnt teaching English out there can be transferred to my work here. I found the people there to be so warm and generous despite having very little, in some cases. The landscape and scenery are absolutely stunning, Nicaragua is really a hidden gem of CA.
Adjusting back into London life, I am resuming songwriting workshops and teaching piano, clarinet and now english privately so if you would like a workshop/lessons please get in touch through my website actuallyamy.co.uk.
From volcanoes to diverse cities to beautiful lagoons. Here are a few pictures:
Adjusting back into London life, I am resuming songwriting workshops and teaching piano, clarinet and now english privately so if you would like a workshop/lessons please get in touch through my website actuallyamy.co.uk.
From volcanoes to diverse cities to beautiful lagoons. Here are a few pictures:
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| Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, León - the largest cathedral in Central America. |
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| Granada - previously the capital of Nicaragua. It is one of Nicaragua's most important cities, economically and politically. |
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| Mud pools at San Jacinto - bubbling at 250 degrees celsius! Said to probably be linked to Volcan Telica. |
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| Volcan Telica - one of several volcanoes of the Nicaraguan volcanic front. One of Nicaragua's most active volcanoes. |
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| Laguna de Apoyo - an endorheic lake in the basin of an extinct volcano. |
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| Ometepe Island - meaning 'two mountains' Ometepe is situated in Lake Nicaragua and made up of two volcanoes, Volcanoes Maderas and Volcan Concepción. |
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| A few of my students! Academia Europea, Managua. |
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Exam Results Summer 2013
Exam results from the summer term:
Grade 2 clarinet - Distinction - 130
Grade 2 piano - Pass - 117
Grade 1 piano - Pass 118
Piano prep test
Piano prep test
Well done to you all!
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Sunday, 9 December 2012
Exam results - Autumn 2012
Some great results for my students' ABRSM exams this term:
Piano grade 1 - Merit 120
Piano grade 1 - Merit 121
Piano grade 3 - Merit 120
Piano grade 1 - Distinction 138
Piano grade 1 - Merit 127
Clarinet grade 7 - Distinction 130
Congratulations to you all!
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Playing for "Blitz! The Musical"
I'm playing Bb clarinet, bass clarinet and alto sax in the pit for "Blitz! The Musical"by Lionel Bart. It's being put on by The Company of Four - an amateur dramatics group based in Woodbridge, Ipswich.
"Blitz! is a story that draws on Bart's childhood memories of London's Jewish East End during the Blitz and, like most musicals, centred on a romance between a young couple, in this case a Jewish woman and a Cockney man, although the largest role and main point-of-view character is that of Mrs. Blitztein, the young woman's mother. Steven Suskin describes it as "Abie's Irish Rose set against the burning of Atlanta." Bart himself described the play as "…three human stories inside an epic canvas; the major human conflict—the major plot—personifies the spirit of London and how that spirit developed during the period of the piece."
Being shown at the Riverside Theatre, Woodbridge 21st-25th June!
"Blitz! is a story that draws on Bart's childhood memories of London's Jewish East End during the Blitz and, like most musicals, centred on a romance between a young couple, in this case a Jewish woman and a Cockney man, although the largest role and main point-of-view character is that of Mrs. Blitztein, the young woman's mother. Steven Suskin describes it as "Abie's Irish Rose set against the burning of Atlanta." Bart himself described the play as "…three human stories inside an epic canvas; the major human conflict—the major plot—personifies the spirit of London and how that spirit developed during the period of the piece."
Being shown at the Riverside Theatre, Woodbridge 21st-25th June!
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