Author Archives: BonnieAller

2022 Holiday Mini-Recitals

We had a wonderful time at our mini-recitals this year! It was so fun to have in-person performances and visit with our piano families for the first time since 2019. We all enjoyed the long-awaited holiday cookies, cupcakes, snacks, and punch! The fun tradition of searching for the pickle ornament continues! Kitty-Kitty was a brave […]

Spooky excellence!

We are so proud of all our students for their excellent performances in our Halloween Recital! They were so fun and creative, we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! We also love to see what our students choose as their Halloween costumes. Here are some of them – Enjoy!

Holiday Cheer!

We’re finally wrapping up 2020 on a high note – with our wonderful students’ performances in our pre-recorded Holiday Recital! Once again our students came through with festive, excellent performances! For our own performance this year, we decided we needed something different from our usual Tchaikovsky Nutcracker duets. After months of feeling like we couldn’t […]

Merry Christmas!

We have completed another wonderful week of Holiday Mini-recitals, and our students played beautifully!  It was lovely to see and hear all the kids having fun at the piano.  We had a lot of fun playing for you too!  Here are some highlights from our mini-recitals. First, while we were practicing and preparing to perform […]

Spring 2018 Recitals

On Saturday we were treated to two wonderful recitals, performed by our Aller Piano Studio students.  As always, we were SO proud of each one of them!    Everyone played beautifully, and looked confident!   And what an excellent variety of music our students picked out this year.  We had everything from Debussy to David Bowie, […]

Great start to Summer!

Hi everyone!  Now that our Summer semester is underway, we thought we’d share some thoughts and photos from our Piano Parties – a fun ending to the Spring Semester!  This time we had all-new activities that proved to be both challenging and entertaining! Many of us can credit Looney Tunes with introducing us to classical […]

Spring 2017 Recitals!

We are SO happy about the two lovely piano recitals we had this past weekend!  We are so very, very proud of every one of our students.  We thoroughly enjoyed the awesome, varied, and exciting music that our students chose for these recitals!  What a treat it was to listen to these performances!  Thank you […]

2016 Holiday mini-recitals

This past week we were treated to wonderful performances from all of our students!  It was an excellent way to end the year.  Here are some photos of our proud students after their performances:   And the annual Pickle Hunt, of course: And then plenty of time for treats and socializing! It’s always a wonderful […]

Piano Parties begin our new year!

After having to delay our Piano year by a week because of a broken pipe and all the repair/ cleanup mayhem that followed, we finally got our year off to a great start with Piano Parties!  For this round we had new games, and we had an excellent time with the students! Our first game was a […]

Thank you for a great year in Piano!

What a wonderful year of piano!  Thank you to all our students who worked hard all year and put on excellent performances at our annual Holiday Mini-recitals!  Please enjoy these photos from the mini-recitals.  At the end of this post, for your enjoyment we are including a sweet little video of an early-December rehearsal of our […]