After the tremendous success of the “Crazy Fingers Challenge” in January 25’, a month that was a combination of Scales & the students piece, a challenge that saw all the students bring their A game to their lesson every week with enthusiasm and fun. Now, the new challenge for October 25’ is the “Crazy Eyes Challenge” a month that concentrates on “Sight-Reading, Arpeggio’s”. This challenge will create confidence, strengthen foundations in rhythm and pitch, better mobility and score accuracy. As before there are prizes to won and fun to be had and something I look forward to again.
Dublin based Composer, Performer & Educator Ian Smyth mixes his successful Tuition duties with his composition practice at “The Piano Studio” here in Dublin. He has developed a successful & fun method that young students thrives upon by tailoring each student individual lesson to focus on instant positive rewards while incorporating the love for music. Whether its a famous film score, a popular song or classical piece the student is learning, the fundamentals of theory, technique & sight reading are applied without taking the fun out of learning to play. To find out more contact Ian at “The Piano Studio”for details on availability.
August 2022, saw the release of Ian debut album, “Gaze Boketto-Day in a Life”, a 50 minute seven suite composition based on the first day in the life of a butterfly. An instrumentation ensemble of – Piano, Strings, Percussion & Synth that creates a soundscape alike to Filmscore & Ambient textures that brings this concept album alive. It is available on all streaming platforms & Bandcamp to purchase. His latest Film Soundtrack for “Break Us” is a Percussion filled cacophony based on the style of Japanese Taiko drumming & is presently doing a successful festival circuit winning top production prizes at every stop. The score also features his most recent song “Goodbye“ guesting ‘Little Lost’ on vocals. Recently, Ian completed recording Drums on the upcoming “The Southbank Satellites” release with the first single“All Of The Bad Things“ already streaming since July 2023.
Gaze Boketto – First Bite – Official Video – 2022
Gaze Boketto – First Flight – Official Video – 2022
IAN SMYTH 