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Integration Piano Week is a shared space where musicians, teachers, and learners come together through music — to learn, experience, and exchange ideas.

What Has Always Been There 音楽の起源 Music’s origin is rooted in nature. It was always there, and it always will be. We will gently unravel the mystery of music, step by step.

A quiet return where change emerges not by force, but through time and inner movement.

Thoughts shaped through performance, where sound, body, and perception are inseparable.

Metamorphosis This post marks the beginning of an ongoing series reflecting my return to performance. Re-entry traces how practice, listening, and attention reshape my relationship with sound over time. After many years, I recently returned to preparing a full program and placing it on stage. What stood out to me was not so much the music itself, but the process surrounding it. Time moved differently. Days passed quickly, filled with preparation, teaching, rehearsing, and con

Why repetition alone doesn’t create music and how to reconnect with the flow of sound Practice is supposed to make us better, yet not all practice leads to progress. There is a fine line between repetition and understanding, between effort and awareness. “Drilling” often crosses that line, and I learned it the hard way. Coming back to the stage for the first time in decades, I began to see how easily the habit of repetition can silence the real purpose of practice, which is t

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Why does your child have trouble reading music? This was one of the most common questions I encountered during my teaching career, and I...

The first step in construction is to prepare the foundation.  Before construction can begin, the land must be thoroughly prepared....

Commitment is difficult to achieve, isn't it? Many of us probably make New Year's resolutions, but how many of them do we keep at the end...

You may be drawn to or tired of hearing advertisements for piano lessons that claim that learning the piano will help your children's...

Hiding in a bush Waiting for prey We only hear winds passing through. Nature is quiet. We needed a sign. You send it with fainting...

The biggest misconception about playing the piano is that most of us believe we “have to” push down the piano keys to produce sounds. I...

Sound came first. Long, long ago, humans didn’t have language. You wanted to say something to your loved ones. Your throat could make...

The biggest misunderstanding about sight-reading might be the concept that we believe to play all the correct keys, including dynamics,...

Dismantling old buildings and clearing all debris And then preparing the land for the future harvest I started sowing some seeds,...

Before rhythm becomes music, it already exists in the way we move.

Learning a new piece of music begins with listening. A reflection on sound, musical notes, and how music becomes familiar over time.

Sound comes before words. Before meaning, before explanation, music begins with listening.

I'm not trying to convince anyone. Just a thought, but I think it's powerful. When we learn from our lives, Most of the time, we talk...