Welcome to Tami Niven Studios

Welcome to Tami Niven Studios.  I am an independent piano teacher to 24 students in Utah Valley.  I wanted to start a blog as a way to communicate with students and their parents, and share ideas and tips as they work hard to learn and master the piano.  My hope is that this will help them learn to love not just the piano, but music history, including the study of composers, the different musical periods, and --yes-- even theory!

To start off my blog I thought it would be helpful for my students to see and hear me play the piano, since I am the one usually listening to them.  I am going to post four clips of me playing in my college recital.  I was required to play a piece from each musical period.  It is a little embarrassing showing these videos that are now 13 years old, but nonetheless I will suffer a little humiliation for my students.  :)

Hope you enjoy!

This first song I played is from the Baroque period:  Chromatic Fantasie in d minor, by J. S. Bach.

The second song is from the Classical period:  Appassionata Sonata (Op. 57 Mvmt. 1), by Ludwig van Beethoven.

The third song was from the Romantic period:  Un Sospiro, (Etude in D-flat Major), by Franz Liszt.

The fourth and final song I played was from the New Age or 20th Century period:  All of Me, by Jon Schmidt.

By this point I think my hands and nerves were done, and I kind of butchered the song and didn't play it to my best ability, so excuse the fumbling.  I recorded all of these songs of me playing for keep sake, at a practice run before the recital, which I give out to family and friends instead of the recording from this recital because I was pretty nervous.