Anna Levy Piano

Today such a great concert! Congratulations to all my students for excellence performance on our annual student concert! Thank you to my teachers Shirley Cha, Lulu Yang and Angela Zhang!

Maybe parents can finally believe when piano teachers tell them!

The arts are under attack in every possible educational environment. While anything concerning STEM, including manual coding is getting funded and pushed while the arts are getting decimated.

Not to mention AI is going to make much of manual coding obsolete soon enough. all you will need to be able to do is tell AI what you want to code and it will code it all for you and debug it. Faster than any human being ever could. Will people code in the future by hand for pleasure? I’m sure there are a few super nerds out there who will. But if we’re talking, reaching the human heart and organizing the Brain, there will be people playing piano for pleasure much more than there will be those writing C++ For for that dopamine hit by hand.

Manipulating a musical instrument for self satisfaction of the artistic heart will never be replaced. That relationship is often formed in primary schools. In public education.

Every study everywhere forever has always given us this data. Children who play musical instruments score better and do better on every test imaginable. Their brains are organized at a higher level and what they learn playing an instrument makes everything they do academically stronger. We’ve seen the data forever on this.

 A lot of people will say why can’t it be “and” instead of “or” and it’s because only one side of this equation is getting ripped out of schools. And it is not tech and coding. We’re going to have an apple to Apple discussion about accessibility let’s not pretend the arts are not being cremated right in front of our eyes. 

And this is coming from a nerd who loves everything to do tech.

But It won’t matter, because the adults jagoffs of today who run our education system - have turned the primary schools of today into college recruitment programs. They were the exact same anti art bollards of 30 years ago who weren’t in band then and they don’t advocate for band now. These are the people making decisions where the money goes.

They don’t understand and they never will because if they did, we wouldn’t be where we are right now—with band programs on life-support more and more every single year.

*** this post has gone viral (unfortunately) and some people do not understand that I expect you to be able to do some of your own research but since some of you can’t just say into your phone “show me the MIT study on how music affects a child’s brain“ I’ll have to do the work for you. here is a link to an article that has even more associated links within it.

 you’re welcome.

https://awarenessact.com/if-you-want-smarter-kids-teach-them-music-not-coding-according-to-mit/?fbclid=IwAR3C3Pv6giFV9zpgZOyPJYjk4HBVCGb0MTj_dKhQ078C_2XooetcY7QoJwM

We keep telling parents….

The arts are under attack in every possible educational environment. While anything concerning STEM, including manual coding is getting funded and pushed while the arts are getting decimated.

Not to mention AI is going to make much of manual coding obsolete soon enough. all you will need to be able to do is tell AI what you want to code and it will code it all for you and debug it. Faster than any human being ever could. Will people code in the future by hand for pleasure? I’m sure there are a few super nerds out there who will. But if we’re talking, reaching the human heart and organizing the Brain, there will be people playing piano for pleasure much more than there will be those writing C++ For for that dopamine hit by hand.

Manipulating a musical instrument for self satisfaction of the artistic heart will never be replaced. That relationship is often formed in primary schools. In public education.

Every study everywhere forever has always given us this data. Children who play musical instruments score better and do better on every test imaginable. Their brains are organized at a higher level and what they learn playing an instrument makes everything they do academically stronger. We’ve seen the data forever on this.

 A lot of people will say why can’t it be “and” instead of “or” and it’s because only one side of this equation is getting ripped out of schools. And it is not tech and coding. We’re going to have an apple to Apple discussion about accessibility let’s not pretend the arts are not being cremated right in front of our eyes. 

And this is coming from a nerd who loves everything to do tech.

But It won’t matter, because the adults jagoffs of today who run our education system - have turned the primary schools of today into college recruitment programs. They were the exact same anti art bollards of 30 years ago who weren’t in band then and they don’t advocate for band now. These are the people making decisions where the money goes.

They don’t understand and they never will because if they did, we wouldn’t be where we are right now—with band programs on life-support more and more every single year.

*** this post has gone viral (unfortunately) and some people do not understand that I expect you to be able to do some of your own research but since some of you can’t just say into your phone “show me the MIT study on how music affects a child’s brain“ I’ll have to do the work for you. here is a link to an article that has even more associated links within it.

 you’re welcome.

https://awarenessact.com/if-you-want-smarter-kids-teach-them-music-not-coding-according-to-mit/?fbclid=IwAR3C3Pv6giFV9zpgZOyPJYjk4HBVCGb0MTj_dKhQ078C_2XooetcY7QoJwM

Well, Biali, you GOT IT! For Mozart you got the FIRST, BRAVO!

More good news from CDMF festival! Congratulations to Biali with performance of Bach and Schostakovich!
Whisk you good luck today with Mozart, Biali!

Congratulations to our student Maxi with First Prize in CDMF Festival! BRAVO Maxi, you worked so hard for this!
And also the third price in a competition with much higher level students performing Polka, most difficult piece by Shostakovich, wow, good job!

Today, my piano student Christina Huan made me a very proud teacher - she got 94% at the final ARCT diploma exam and 100% for two of her pieces by Chopin and Debussy!
BRAVO Christina!

Great student concert today and fundraiser for our scholarship! Thank you for supporting our efforts for music!

So proud of all of you!

So many of our students - winners of CDMF! all of them work hard and hit a great recognition for their work. Congratulations to all!

More good news from our students: Christian Yang with two more winning certificates from CDMF, Congratulations Christian! You worked hard for this smile! And the youngest of all Aiden, Bravo! This is your first and we will keep going to the top!

Congratulations to Amber Gao! 92% on her ARCT exam and now First prize on CDMF with her Debussy!
BRAVO Amber! You are a true talent!

Congratulations to Maxi, First prize on CDMF! Bravo Maxi!

Under huge pressure and for very short time - 92% on his final ARCT exam is super achievement! CONGRATULATIONS THOMAS! BRAVO!
From RCM comments- “An outstanding performance, Thomas. Fine insight into style and character, and your technical command and awareness of harmony and rhythmic gesture is consistently impressive. Congratulations to you and your teacher!”

Brother and sister - best working kids, and now, here the result! Bravo Christian and Vania! Well deserve achievements!

Bravo Michael, you really deserve these prizes after working so heard!

CONGRATULATIONS to Michael! In his first competition he got one gold and two silver prizes! Wow, a good start, bravo!

Masks, or not masks - this is the question! I wish I told them all to show their faces the world to see their beautiful smiles after the successful performance!

Attention to Anna Levy Piano students: this my son, Martin, leading the world in computer science after….gues what? Studying piano under his mom, then cello classes, then… here it is!

NO MAGICS! Just hard work!

https://therecursive.com/bulgarian-eth-zurich-professor-martin-vechev-receives-e2m-to-make-ai-secure-fair-and-resilient/

Bulgarian ETH Zurich professor Martin Vechev receives €2M to make AI secure, fair, and resilient Prof. Martin Vechev, Professor at the Swiss ETH Zurich University, one of the world’s leading technology universities, and co-founder of the deep tech

Today was Anna Levy School of Music Student Concert! All great talents and wonderful musicians! Congratulations to all!