Welcome to The Playful Piano!
For those of you who are new here, or even if you’ve been around awhile, I wanted to reintroduce myself! My name is Jenny Boster and I have been a piano teacher for over 25 years. I have learned a lot along the way and continue to learn from every lesson I teach. I started The Playful Piano several years ago to share my teaching resources and help encourage other piano teachers.
A little more about me: I live in Farr West, Utah with my husband and five children (whose ages range from 5 to 15). Life is crazy busy, but wonderful. I teach all of my own kids piano (which can be quite the challenge, but also so rewarding!) and I have a small private piano studio. My youngest started kindergarten this year (!!) and I am working to grow my daytime piano studio with homeschoolers and adults. I love spending time with my family – playing board games, traveling when we can and just being together.
I love people but am an introvert, I always have a song running through my head, I love my church and love being involved there, I have an almost one-year-old aussiedoodle pup who keeps us on our toes, my family is obsessed with Survivor and I am currently loving the show Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and I am super good at Dr. Mario.
I received my Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University and I am a Nationally-Certified Teacher of Music. I love teaching, and I love writing and creating books and resources for music teachers and presenting at music teacher conferences.
Here at The Playful Piano, I want to help YOU become everyone’s favorite piano teacher! I believe that piano lessons should be fun, playful, engaging, and creative, and that you can do all that while also training musically-literate pianists with solid technique who can take their piano skills in whichever direction they choose – whether they continue to advanced study or become lifelong recreational musicians. I believe that piano lessons are so important and that we can have an incredible impact on the lives of our students!
What to look forward to: I love creating systems for my piano teaching to help me stay organized and be a better teacher. On my blog and in my email newsletter I’ll be sharing ideas and tips on lesson planning and my favorite methods and repertoire to motivate students. Look for lots of piano practice ideas and tricks and how I help my students become great sight readers. I’ll talk about goal setting and curriculum planning, but also about teaching the individual and being flexible with each student’s needs. I love teaching music history and will be sharing some super engaging resources to help your students learn to appreciate classical music. I am also passionate about advocacy for female composers and can’t wait to introduce you to incredible composers from throughout history that you’ve never heard of!
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