piano and community service

halfemptypockets
Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:24:05 +0000

Yes, I am asking something she can do to impress the admission. Any comments are appreciated.



Ok. So I think you need to figure out what other skills your daughter has that can help her best utilize her talent. In my daughter’s case, she’s got a lot of poise and natural ease public speaking and meeting strangers so that makes their senior citizen show perfectly suited for her. If your daughter is a people person and wouldn’t be self conscious, playing for the seniors and leading a few sing a longs would be right up her alley. If she’s better interacting one on one, then maybe offering free lessons in an assisted living setting (that has a piano in its common area) would be the way to go. Or maybe she’d prefer working with inner city kids. Besides giving lessons, I know there are programs dedicated to bringing the arts to schoolkids - maybe she could attach herself to one of those groups. If she’s religious, she can probably play for church. Or maybe she could play the music for a grade school theater or Christmas production.

You probably should check with her piano teacher and ask her to keep her eyes and ears open for volunteer opportunities. I know our daughter started getting her gigs (both paid and volunteer) through her dance teachers, but as time has gone on, groups will often contact the girls directly. If nothing looks like it’s coming up, nursing and assisted living facilities usually have an activities coordinator that you can contact to ask if your daughter can come over.