Many piano questions

naturalmom
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:51:16 +0000

I should clarify - ds has been with his current teacher for 4 years. The first 2 years were overseas with a different teacher. But it sounds like 4 years is still a solid amount with one teacher.

Ds is finishing 8th grade. We originally thought about him changing after his sophomore year, but that may be too late, if much of junior year would be building up his audition repetoire. I think it would be harder to do that with a new teacher.

I don’t know about being able to secure a different teacher while he’s still under his current teacher. The new teacher I’m thinking of has a waiting list, and recommends continuing to look for another teacher while waiting to hear from her.

I think it will probably never be easy to change, but I also don’t want to link it to the competition - especially for my ds. So it makes it tricky to talk to him about it right now! Plus the fact that he hates change. But it sounds like change is a good idea at this point.