Our third annual LESSONFEST begins tomorrow, Monday April 17th. The 2023 LESSONFEST is a week of over fifty free live classes taught by incredible teachers covering a variety of music and arts topics. LESSONFEST classes are for a variety of ages and levels, with the details on each class page about the intended audience. While there have already been more enrollments this year than last, there are seats available in many of the classes.
Recently, one of Donovan Kwan’s current piano students of Lessonface, Steve Hubbard, passed his fourth, ABRSM Grade 3 Piano Exam with distinction. Donovan has been teaching Steve the piano since March 2022, from the beginner level onwards. From then, Donovan has coached & helped Steve to pass all of his four ABRSM Piano Exams with flying colours! In addition, they are now working towards the fifth ABRSM Piano Exam Award, Grade 4!
Here is what Steve had to say about his experience with Lessonface:
Earlier this year, Grammy award winning music educator and Lessonface Teacher Melissa Salguero sat down with MET Orchestra violinist Katherine Fong for a fun and lively introduction to the violin. The talk was filmed at a concert venue in New York City and was sponsored by Southwest Strings. The full video appears below this article.
Lorinda Jones came to Lessonface through our wonderful partnership with John C. Campbell Folk School. Lorinda has been a student favorite on Lessonface since 2020, teaching both Harp and Dulcimer, and is our teacher spotlight for the month of March. She has also very graciously put together a Celtic Harp tutorial just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.
Today enrollment opens for LESSONFEST Spring 2023, a week of live online music, language, and arts classes happening April 17-23. In this third year of hosting LESSONFEST, Lessonface has again coordinated with great instructors and co-sponsors to offer more than 50 live group classes on fascinating topics from beginner guitar to whale music.
Lorinda Jones grew up in the small town of Tompkinsville, Kentucky surrounded by old-time, gospel, shape-note and bluegrass music. But it was when she met the “friendly cardboard dulcimer” as an adult music educator and began teaching and sharing the traditional music that she felt she had “come back home” to her roots. Lorinda has taught the dulcimer in schools, at festivals across the country and came to Lessonface in 2020 through our partnership with the John C. Campbell Folk School.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we asked Lessonface Teachers to share what they love about their instrument! We received so many wonderful responses and wanted to share a few below.
Katrina Zosseder wrote a poem about everything she loves about the violin:
When we first met, I was drawn in by her depth and darkness; I had left a harsh sound.
Flavio Silva is a musician who is part of a new generation of Brazilian composers and instrumentalists that has been breaking through the musical scene of different places, such as Brazil, The Netherlands and most recently, New York. In 2019 he was named "best guitarist" by Hot House Jazz Magazine and later this year will be releasing a new album. Silva has taught on Lessonface since 2018 and has quickly become a student favorite. We interviewed this month's Teacher Spotlight from his home in New York City.
What could be achieved in the next year? In the next decade?
Did you know that Lessonface has a goal-setting tool? It's totally free and simple to use. It is designed to help you create specific, actionable goals and to (optionally, no pressure) share them with highly-qualified teachers so you can achieve them in this fresh slate of a new year.
First, log in, or register for Lessonface using the "Sign Up / Log In" options.
