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 Caitlin plays a waltz by Grieg
January, 2008.
In this video clip 11-year-old Caitlin is playing a waltz by Grieg.
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| |  An Interview With Hellene Hiner
Espie Estrella, site About.com
... My advice to the parents would be to take music education seriously. Be present at your child's piano lessons, get involved and see if the child is making progress and being happy. If not, never hesitate to look for another teacher! Many people quit piano lessons if anything goes wrong from the start. It is a very bad idea. Music literacy is a life lasting skill. If your children is musically illiterate, they are not enjoying life to the follest, in my opinion...
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 9-year-old Allison plays the Overture from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
December 8, 2005.
9-year-old Allison plays the Overture from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky and Turkey In the Straw by James Bastien. Starting our piano lessons 4 years ago, now she is definitely showing her style preferring bright and fast musical compositions.
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| |  4-year-old Anker plays Christmas and Boogie songs
December 8, 2005.
4-year-old Anker performs several Christmas and Boogie songs after 6 months of piano learning. His fast progress is supported by the efficiency of the teaching method and everyday home practice with the Soft Way to Mozart software.
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 Desiree plays The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy from Nutcracker
November 30, 2005.
7-year-old Desiree plays Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. Starting 3 years ago, from the first piano lesson she showed the immense love to music and desire to play piano constantly improving her performance.
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| |  Caitlin plays the Dance of the Reed Pipes from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
December 10, 2005.
In this video clip 9-year-old Caitlin is playing the Dance of the Reed Pipes from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky.
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 Emily plays Menuet by C.F.E. Bach and a theme from Harry Potter
December 10, 2005.
A video clip of 9-year-old Emily playing Menuet by C.F.E. Bach and a theme from Harry Potter by John Williams.
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| |  Stephanie playing Polonaise by J.S.Bach
December 10, 2005.
In this video clip 10-year-old Stephanie plays Polonaise by J.S.Bach.
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 Our method on the 11 News, KHOU, Houston
March 2nd, 2005.
Two of our small 3- and 5-year old piano students became stars in a news reportage of the channel 11 KHOU (CBS), Houston. This reportage presents the effective method for teaching children and developing their love to music and piano playing.
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| |  Soft Way to Mozart on Houston Channel 2
February 21st, 2005.
The Houston TV Channel 2 team made a reportage focused on our 3-year-old student who, with the help of the Soft Way to Mozart software, learned to play on the piano many advanced songs including Minuet in G-minor from the Bach's Anna Magdalena Notebook.
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 News on KXAN-TV 36, Austin, Texas
November 7th, 2004
Impressed by students' performance, a popular Austin journalist Jim Swift and his crew from KXAN-TV News visited
Hellene Hiner's piano studio. Read and watch the
"On The Porch" segment in the 10 p.m. newscast
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| |  WB 39 News
October 11th, 2002
WB-39 NEWS about the Soft way to Mozart teaching system and music learning software. Read more and watch the video...
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 3-year-old Gracie plays on the piano Antonin Dvorjak's "Largo"
October 8th, 2004
With the considered support of parents, the Soft way to Mozart program just boosts the music development of children. Home practice with our software, added to the weekly piano lessons, helped 3-year-old Grace fluently play and memorize quite advanced songs. Enjoy our little student's performance!
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| |  Little Miracles of Soft Mozart
May 15th, 2004.
On the video from the last "Soft way to Mozart" recital, watch a 3-year-old child, starting a month ago, and playing "French Song" with both hands, a 5-year-old child playing Mozart's "Spring Time Song", 16- and 17-year-old students, who in three lessons have learned advanced piano pieces of Schostakovich and Rameau.
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 Haily plays Khachaturian's "Masquerade Waltz"
June 17th, 2004.
How fast can you learn piano with the Soft Mozart program?
After starting piano lessons less than 2 months ago, 17-year-old Haily plays Khachaturian's "Masquerade Waltz".
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| |  3-year-old Gracie plays Ode to Joy and more
August 14th, 2004
Our 3-year-old student shows her piano skills, playing the songs she learned in just over 3 months of study with the Soft way to Mozart method. You may see her in our Little Miracles of Soft Mozart video, where she just started learning piano, and compare her progress now. Enjoy this amazing performance!
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 Yuri Rusakov performs Sonata Pathetique by Beethoven
November 2006. Yuri, our programmer from Ukraine, visited the Hellene Hiner's music studio in Houston. Having amazing sight-reading skills, he gave an impromptu concert by reading and playing one musical piece after another for several hours. Enjoy his performance of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique.
| |  13-year-old Jack plays "Nocturne C# minor" by Frederic Chopin
In his movie "Pianist", Roman Polanski succeeded to entwine the tragedy of a war with the beauty of music of Chopin. Jack, our talented student, is playing for you a music piece from the "Pianist".
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 Christmas Recital
December 12-13, 2002
As usual, just before Christmas, all students of Cottage Music Academy performed popular Christmas and classical songs for their parents and guests. Read more and watch video...
| |  Soft Mozart starts in Music Generations, San Diego
May 18-20, 2004
The Music Generations music studio, San Diego, California, accepted the Soft way to Mozart™ program as the main teaching approach for their piano lessons. Read more...
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 Debra Duncan Show at ABC, Houston
April 10th, 2000
Hellene Hiner had her first appearance on TV in the Debra Duncan show on ABC, Houston. Read more...
| |  Interview of Hellene Hiner on KILT-FM radio
February 12, 2004. Interview has been taken by Pat Hernandez on 100.3 KILT-FM radio, Houston, TX
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 Hellene Hiner's intervew for Good News Corporation
June 21th, 2004
Paul Sladkus, a founder of the Good News Corporation ( www.goodnewsbroadcast.org), made a phone interview with Hellene Hiner about her piano teaching method.
| |  Piano-playing pupils picked up skills using a computer
June 7th, 2005.
An Houston Chronicle article about organizing piano lab in the Hutsell
Elementary school, and using Soft Wat to Mozart software as a tool for productive music lessons in a group setting.
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 Piano teacher's software hits all the right notes
February the 19th, 2004.
An article about Hellene Hiner and her program in Houston Chronicle.
"... My goal is to bring my program to all of the teachers and all of the public schools," she said. "Some of the children will be able to play Mary Had A Little Lamb with both hands at the end of the first class, and some of them will play something more advanced..." Read more...
| |  Presentation for the Cypress Creek Music Teachers Association
April 20, 2004
Hellene Hiner gave a presentation of the Soft way to Mozart program to the members of the Cypress Creek Music Teachers Association (Houston). Read short report of this event >>
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Music director for local school debuts new software
November 20th, 2002.
1960 SUN published an article about Hellene Hiner:
"...Hellene Hiner, Cottage School of Copperfield's Music Academy director debuted what she said will be a ground breaking program for teaching children music around the world..." Read more...
| |  Solters & Digney Public Relations 50th Anniversary Celebration
May 19th, 2004
As a client of the Solters & Digney Public Relation firm, one of the oldest, most diverse PR firms in history, Hellene Hiner was invited to the 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California. Read more...
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Music Teacher Strikes Chord with Theory for Teaching Tots
March 10th, 1997.
Business Journal published an article about Hellene Hiner's program:
"... Hiner's theory speculates that 100 percent of all babies are born with musical talent of some kind but that the talent is lost by the age of 5 or 6 if it is not developed..." Read more...
| |  The Studio of Music Literacy, Krasnodar, Russia
Video from the Studio of Music Literacy, Krasnodar, Russia
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