Clarkson Music
C301 - 315 Ryding Ave M6N 1H6 Toronto, ON, Canada

The FALL term starts on September 8. We are looking forward to continuing ONLINE lessons or if you prefer, IN YOUR HOME, with Covid protocols in place! Please let us know what time and day you would like for your weekly piano lessons! We hope everyone is keeping safe and healthy!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! We are still accepting new students in August for ONLINE lessons and we can work around your vacations! THIS SEPTEMBER, we will be IN-PERSON AND ONLINE. Please contact Heidi to set up your weekly time. Please let me know if you want your teacher to come to your home or if you prefer to stay online.

ONLINE LESSONS We will go forward with online lessons in the month of June. At this point, we foresee July and August to be online as well. Please let your teacher and Heidi know your availability even if its flexible for July and August to continue lessons.... It is our hope that in September we can teach in person again!

Our students are so honest and Id like to relay this honesty. I asked my piano student this morning if she had a good lesson today. She said she has had better! I asked her which lesson was better? She said the ones when there wasnt CoronaVirus. Even though we are still teaching online, please know that we do miss teaching in person. We are practicing physical distancing and being safe. We can only hope that we can be back in person again soon.

Im also teaching The Avengers theme song!

One of my piano students is learning this song: Faded by Alan Walker

Heidis piano corner in her apartment. Working from home!

Heidi will be playing piano TONIGHT at 5 pm via The Rivoli Live Instagram!! Rivoli #togetherathome #musiclivesonline

We cover a lot of ground!

@edsheeran #thinkingoutloud #pianoplaying #stayathome #togetherathome #readingmusic

We miss seeing all of our students in person and we hope that day will come again soon. But for now, us teachers will sit at our pianos at our homes while youre at your piano in your home! Technology is so wonderful and helpful during this crazy time!

Lessons went well again online tonight! We used Skype and FaceTime! Im really impressed with our students. They are taking direction well and are being really organized and diligent with what they have learned and what they need to learn. It absolutely warms my heart that we can figure out how to make these online lessons count!

Heidi taught 5 lessons online today and they all went pretty well! We used FaceTime and WhatsApp. Alex and Berlayne have also had success with online piano lessons. This is our new norm at least until we get back to what we were used to in our daily lives. Lets make it work together!

Heidis tablet is set up for online lessons this week and going forward until we can be in person again!

You can see in the left corner my tablet set up for online lessons. This morning my student in Grade 8 Royal Conservatory had a pretty good 45 minute lesson via Skype!

All I Want from The Fault In Our Stars I recorded this while my husband was listening to a podcast in the same room so dont mind the background noise.

Can We Pretend by Pink #canwepretend #hopeful #mindful #musictherapy #pianoplaying #togetherathome

Clarkson Music will See You Again next week but maybe not in person! We will let you know by the end of this week how we will be able to teach you online via FaceTime and Skype!

Heidi playing Feeling Good by Muse. Hope you all are staying safe in this very interesting time of our lives.

Rex the Tyrannosaurus is played by this 4 year old student and Heidi is singing along!

Clarkson Music will take the March Break from Saturday March 14 to Sunday March 22 unless you have discussed with your teacher that you would like lessons during the March Break.Clarkson Music will take the March Break from Saturday March 14 to Sunday March 22 unless you have discussed with your teacher that you would like lessons during the March Break.

Sunflower by Post Malone by one of our students!

To The Lute by Heinrich Hofmann

Foolish Games by Jewel

Today is quite the day for some of Heidis piano students! 3 of them are going to take their Grade 2 Royal Conservatory piano exams and one will take his Grade 7 Royal Conservatory piano exam! We wish them all good luck and a sense of calm and confidence!

Mick Jagger is on to something! We can start teaching your child guitar and/or piano as young as 3.5 years old!

Heidi is recording piano parts today for a band she used to be in. Chapel of Eases album should be released hopefully this spring!

More thanks and appreciation from students for our teacher Alex!

I played Where Are You Christmas? from Dr. Seuss How The Grinch Stole Christmas at the Christmas recitals this year.

Us teachers love getting Christmas Cards!

Sometimes our students pets like to help with theory!

Clarkson Music will be expanding and offering guitar lessons for all levels in the new year. Nick is available to teach on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Please contact Heidi for more information.

It Must Have Been Love by Roxette. RIP.

The Christmas piano recitals went really well. It was a lovely afternoon of piano music! Just a reminder that Clarkson Music is closed from December 22 to January 5. We will resume piano lessons on Monday January 6.... Happy holidays everyone!