THE TIGA STUDIO PIANO BLOG

Pun in Rangsit discovers Herbie Hancock, the Chicago pianist who played Mozart with an orchestra at eleven, joined Miles Davis, scored a hit with Rockit and won a Grammy for Album of the Year.

Kwan in Pathum Thani explores Pictures at an Exhibition, the 1874 piano suite Modest Mussorgsky wrote after visiting a memorial show of his friend's paintings.

Phum in Rangsit learns Les cinq doigts, the 1921 set of eight very easy melodies Igor Stravinsky wrote for beginners, each using only five notes under the hand.

Bee in Pathum Thani meets Nikolai Medtner, the Moscow composer and friend of Rachmaninoff who wrote dozens of piano Fairy Tales and spent his last years in London.

Kaew in Rangsit learns how Nikolai Zverev housed and trained boy pianists in Moscow, including Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, and what his methods teach today.

Win in Pathum Thani learns from Heinrich Lichner, the nineteenth-century composer and organist from Silesia whose cheerful sonatinas still help children move beyond beginner pieces.

Plai in Bangkok, Thailand studies how Nathan Evans, a postman from Scotland, posted the sea shanty Wellerman on TikTok, sparked a wave of duets and reached number one in the UK in 2021.

Bow in Bangkok, Thailand learns how sonic logos like the Netflix ta-dum, the NBC chimes and the Intel bong turn a few notes into instant brand recognition.

Mali in Bangkok, Thailand discovers Ernesto Lecuona, the Cuban pianist who wrote Malagueña and Siboney, and learns a simple version of his most famous tune.

Mew in Bangkok, Thailand discovers Leopold Godowsky, the largely self-taught pianist from Lithuania who rewrote Chopin's études, toured Java and wrote a suite about it.

Nida in Rangsit discovers Don Buchla, the California designer whose modular synthesizer used touch plates instead of a normal keyboard and shaped electronic music.

Jom in Bangkok, Thailand discovers Johann Baptist Cramer, the London pianist whose études Beethoven valued so highly that he annotated some of them for his nephew.

Prae in Pathum Thani discovers Ernő Dohnányi, the Hungarian pianist who wrote famous finger exercises and turned Twinkle Twinkle Little Star into a grand orchestral joke.

Pim in Pathum Thani discovers Francis Poulenc, the French composer who set the Babar picture book for narrator and piano, and learns why his music smiles.

Tonkla in Rangsit learns how jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi wrote the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas and why Linus and Lucy still makes children dance.

Q in Rangsit discovers IMSLP, the Petrucci Music Library started by a student in 2006, which offers free public-domain scores and changed how musicians find sheet music.

Ohm in Bangkok, Thailand discovers Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium, a giant electric instrument of the early 1900s that streamed live music to subscribers by telephone.

Mint in Pathum Thani discovers Olga Samaroff, born Lucy Hickenlooper in Texas, who changed her name, built a concert career and taught famous pianists at Juilliard.

Beam in Rangsit explores Játékok, the playful piano pieces by Hungarian composer György Kurtág that let children use palms, forearms and silence as music.

Ice in Bangkok, Thailand discovers Sergei Prokofiev, the Russian composer who gave every animal in Peter and the Wolf its own instrument, and tries his Music for Children.