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📣CALGARY! Tickets are now ON SALE for our concert at the Jack Singer Concert Hall this spring. Lana and I will be performing Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Calgary Civic Symphony.
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🎹We absolutely LOVE this piece, it has elements of "jazzy" material while also being reminiscent of Mozart.

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🎶It is a brilliant piece of music and SO much fun to play and perform. We can't wait to share it with everyone here at home, reserve your tickets today for our performance April 5th, 2:30pm. Link to purchase is in my bio☝️

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"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music. They should be taught to love it instead."❤️-Igor Stravinsky

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🎹 Chez Petrouchka, Three movements from Petrouchka (4-hands arrangement)

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🔸"Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work." - Chuck Close

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🗝Want to know how to feel inspired? Sit down each day and do the WORK. People often ask me how I 'feel motivated' to practice each day, and I always respond that I really don't. I rarely 'feel' like practicing and I have many other things to do, but I sit down to do the work anyways because that's discipline:). The work is the only thing that will open the door for inspiration to come to me.
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📣Don't wait for inspiration. ACT so that you will be prepared for its arrival.

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Ironwork, stained glass, florals with animal print...every little detail right down to this stunning Steinway as centrepiece 😍What do you think?

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💭I’ll be over here daydreaming to stay warm since it’s another day of record cold temps in Calgary, Canada.

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Staying warm indoors today with this little #PracticePost and testing out my teeny new travel camera.

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Travel is definitely on the mind today considering it’s record cold temperatures here in Calgary, Canada🇨🇦 . It’s supposed to go Get down to -40 degrees this week🥶... _
🌎 Where in the world are you and what’s the weather like?? Please share if it’s warm so that I can imagine myself there 😆

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🇵🇹 Castelo São Jorge in Lisbon, Portugal in one of my first trips to the beautiful country. ❤️ Some of my favourite shots including one of my beautiful birthday girl

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🏰 This castle plays an important role in the history of Portugal. The legend goes that when Portugal was fighting to free itself from Moorish rule, the knight Martim Mortiz sacrificed his life by throwing his own body to keep open the door to the castle that allowed the Christian soldiers to storm the castle in the 'Siege of Lisbon'. _
📚The castle sits above Lisbon since the 8th century B.C. and has been occupied by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans and Moors all before the Christians. It has been a royal palace and military barracks, and is now a national monument and museum. #carmmorintravels

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🎭Stravinsky's Petrouchka is one of the most famous Russian Ballets - it's like the very tragic version of our Pinocchio!

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🏵It is a ballet composed in 1910-11 about the love and jealousies of three puppets. The puppets come to life only to experience very HUMAN emotions like love, jealousy and rage. Petrouchka loves the Ballerina, but she is in love with the Moor. In a fit of jealousy and rage, Petrouchka challenges the Moor to be with his love, but is killed. -
🎼The arrangement that we are performing here was arranged to facilitate the ballet rehearsals so that instead of needing an entire orchestra for the dancers to rehearse, the entire orchestral part has been arranged for 4-hands.

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🎬The three movements we've performed in this recording (Danse Russe, Chez Petrouchka and La Semaine Grasse) are the same three movements that Stravinsky arranged for solo piano version for the great Arthur Rubinstein 10 years after the original ballet was composed. We loved performing this piece for all of its excitement, drama and character.

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👆Complete recording is in the link in my bio to our YouTube channel. Enjoy!

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🌎On our most recent trip to New York we of course went to the Metropolitan Museum. I'm sure you would need to spend a week there to even scratch the surface, but of course we had to make a visit to the musical instrument collection.

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🎹This first photo has an American Upright Piano by Loud & Brothers from 1831 (left), and a 'Grand Pianoforte' from 1840 made by Érard in London (right). The Érard on the right was designed by George Henry Blake, is one of the most elaborately decorated instruments of the nineteenth century. There are only 80 keys, made of ivory and ebony, and the case has everything from holly, mahogany, burl walnut, tulipwood, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and silver.

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🎼 Swipe right and this black Grand Piano is the OLDEST remaining piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori who is credited as inventing the piano. Made in 1720 in Florence Italy, this one still looks like a harpsichord but the quill mechanism is replaced by the modern hammer action that has been used as the model for the modern hammer actions of what we play today.

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🎹 Saturday night practice, accepting progress over perfection so that I can call it a day 😴 #inchbyinch

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