Northwestern Piano Students Visit Reagan

Today, the piano studio of Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota visited Reagan to perform a recital for IB Music and piano ELO students. The college music majors and professors also shared about their experience studying music at the collegiate level. 

PianoArts Winner 2012 Sahun Hong performs at Reagan!

PianoArts is a biennial international piano competition held in Milwaukee at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. The 2012 winner Sahun (Sam) Hong recently visited Reagan this past Friday to perform and interact with our piano club students and other members of the Reagan music department. Students had the opportunity to ask Sam questions about life as a musician, practice/performance tips and much more! Special thanks to PianoArts founder Sue Medford for coordinating this wonderful event!

You can find out more about PianoArts on their website:  http://www.pianoarts.org/

IB Music Guest Lecturer: Derrick Hahn

In IB Music 1 today, senior Derrick Hahn stepped in as teacher to guide students through a study of Romantic era piano music. Derrick provided his peers with an interactive analysis of the thematic development in Chopin's Ballade no. 4.

Here are a few pictures of Derrick in action: