Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!

• Hello, i am from Lima, Perú and love food from the coast of my country in general i should really recommend you try " Aji de gallina " is difficult to pick just one but there you go.
• Now a days i am working in some fusion pieces on the electric guitar for auditions to college.
• i hope i can a get a decent piano skills and learn from you all fellow piano musicians so i can a have a better healthy life as popular music composer and producer.

Hello!

1. I live in Boulder, CO... Colorado can be known for its breweries. There is one closeby that I frequent with neapolitan style pizza that I would probably consider my favorite. 

2. I'm currently alternating between Venetian Boat Song (Op 19, No 6) by Mendelssohn and Arabesque by Debussy.

3. I don't know many people who love Classical music, so I'm excited to have this as a channel to learn more and connect with other Classical music lovers. 

Hi all, I’m Jason from Texas and just signed up! my favorite food is definitely Mexican, could eat three meals a day that way (and have on many occasions!)

I jump around between a lot of books that I have, including classical, jazz, and broadway but came here to start focusing more.
 

I’ve been playing multiple instruments for about 18 years now. I spent most of that on guitar but started picking up piano around 8 years ago. I would describe my skill as early intermediate as I can read pretty well but struggle to read quickly and don’t spend enough time on fundamentals like scales, specific keys, etc. I’m hopeful that being here will give me a dedicated path to improving!

Hello! My name is Amy Hana. I live in Lincoln, Nebraska in the United States. I work full time in communications managing social media for a public library system, but my true love is piano. I returned to college (after many years off) as a double major including piano performance. Ultimately, I only finished my other degree to save time and money, but I have continued to take lessons at the same college.

My main motivations for continuing lessons as an adult are:

To stay motivated to push myself in practice.
To keep learning and learning and learning.
And especially - to be a skilled and appreciative listener. Learning a piece of music yourself (at whatever level you are able) enhances listening so much because you gain an understanding of just how nuanced and skilled playing is, and you can really hear the different choices artists make in their interpretation, which is just so fabulously interesting and moving!

Currently learning:

Bach Preludes and Fuges (Book 1) side-by-side with Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues
Mozart Sonata k. 333
Schubert Little A Major d. 664

Thank you, Tonebase for providing this fantastic forum and access to world class performers.

P.S. I can’t pick a favorite pianist and I also can’t pick a favorite food.

• Born in Delaware (crabs!) and raised in Illinois (deep dish pizza!), currently living in Northeast Ohio (pierogies ... ?) 
• Orchestra reductions for several concerto movements for my students.  Just picking up Schubert Impromptu D. 946 for myself.
• Eager to explore a LOT of repertoire!

I play piano as a hobby and I am currently specializing in Scarlatti sonatas.  I am a retired computer programmer who loves to work with software tools for the piano (and violin).  I do a little bit of composing. I just started learning the violin a year ago to enhance my love of music. I started piano at 10.  I may be writing some music software in the near future now that I discovered WebMIDI.  I do some off-camera recordings of Scarlatti Sonatas on my YouTube channel but hope to do more on-camera recordings soon. The one on-camera piece on my channel, is a short famous LDS hymn which I added a variation to. 

I am experimenting with Virtual Pianos for recordings since it is difficult to get a live analog recording to my satisfaction in my living room. Right now, I am taking some Scarlatti Sonatas and arranging them for 2 violins to use for my violin lessons. It works.  For example, Sonata K322 sounds really good for 2 violins if you adapt the notes a bit.  We are going to try it with Violin + Viola next.  

I created a little page turner (using the middle pedal) when playing violin with my teacher using WebMIDI events. I use a large MAC monitor for the score on top of the piano.   I want to eventually record my childhood favorites: Beethoven's Appassionato, Pathetique and Waldstein in the next year.  Tonebase has some really good lessons on these. 

Other favorites: Mozart, Chopin, Schubert. I also like David Nevue's pieces.  However, D. Scarlatti is my obsession right now.

I am also into computer animation + music, since computer graphics is a specialty of mine. 

My favorite pianists in the past: Arthur Rubinstein, Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin, Alfred Brendel.  Particularly for Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert. 

HI, I'm Sara from northwestern PA.  I like the wine from the local vineyards, as well as the local homemade chocolate shops.

I'm currently interested in approaching Ravel's Sonatine, but spend most of my time preparing for my students' lessons (beginners through advanced).

I hope to gain valuable information for myself and my students.