Growing up in the 1970s, I studied piano and solfege (singing named pitches using “do re mi”) with a French woman named Mlle. Yvonne Combe, who was a student at Paris Conservatory from 1905 - 1908 when four famous French composers were alive and Fauré was director of the conservatoire. She emigrated to America and founded The French School of Music in Plainfield, NJ in 1927. Many alumni performed in Carnegie Recital Hall as children, attended top notch conservatories, became professional artists / composers, taught in conservatories, and sang in blockbuster films, cultivating a lifelong relationship of joy with music.

It took us decades to grasp how powerful her teaching methodology was and why, and this methodology is now available online.

While professional musicians generally focus on their conservatory work and not their early educational history, The French School of Music made conservatory access possible, by giving students a solid foundation in practical music fundamentals, as well as both technical skill and musicality.

Non-fiction: How Do I Become An Unstoppable Musician? Vol. 1 (of 3).

Fiction: short stories and cozy mysteries (upcoming). Creator of the Unstoppable Musicianship Bootcamp, pianist, composer, former technologist (software development, technical training, engineering management).

Grew up in NJ, lived in Tampa FL, Birmingham AL, Jersey City NJ. Currently live in Phoenix AZ.

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