Cori Belle, pianist

May News from Cori Belle

This content is from Cori's May 2023 Newsletter. If you would like to receive her newsletters in your inbox, click to subscribe here.

Happy May!

April showers bring...May flowers! We are experiencing glorious sunshine and blooming flowers in this beautiful Pacific Northwest spring...and what better way to complement the beauty of God's creation than an offering of music?

My May is full of music! I recently played for one of my daughters at the local Solo and Ensemble festival. It was her first time performing…

Summer 2021 News from Cori Belle

This content is from Cori's Summer 2021 Newsletter. If you would like to receive her newsletters in your inbox, click to subscribe here.

Culture Shapers

Happy Summer! I have been thinking of the many conversations going on these days about identity, history, truth, and morality. There is so much ugliness and division happening in and amongst it all. It has made me think about the role musicians and mothers have as Culture Shapers in little and big ways.

Mothers have a unique…

Creative Programming

As musicians, we wear many hats: performer, student, teacher, collaborator, music director, producer…Perhaps you also wear some of these: blogger, promoter, accountant, website developer, recording artist. Maybe you have been fortunate enough to be the Artistic Director at some point, the one responsible for programming the music at an event?

I say fortunate because so many times artists perform out of obligation to record labels, producers, and teachers who determine the content of their programs. I think…

May News from Cori Belle

This content is from Cori's May 2020 Newsletter. If you would like to receive Cori's monthly newsletters in your inbox, please subscribe here.

A Moment in Time

What strange times we are living in! This “pause” has been, for some, a time for reflection and new projects. For me, it has been more of a shift in how I spend my time. Music has taken a backseat to the more pressing duties of motherhood, which for the past two months have included homeschooling, counseling and entertaining children, and general…

Amy Beach "Romance" for Violin and Piano

In looking for some new music to work on this year, I stumbled across this piece on youtube. I have always loved Amy Beach, having become acquainted with her songs for singers in college. This Romance for Violin and Piano is just divine. Enjoy!

The Complete Collaborator

Martin Katz, pianist-accompanist-collaborator extraordinaire, has a new book out! And thanks to Amazon.com, it arrived in my mailbox last week! I am thrilled to be the new owner of The Complete Collaborator: The Pianist as Partner and am trying to savour it bit by bit rather than devour it in a single sitting as I am apt to do. The book has a companion website where you can download and stream the musical examples. Ingenious! It's like taking an at-home accompanying course (or should I say…Read more

To School or Not to School?

Though probably not grammatically correct, that is the question I am pondering right now. Is graduate school in my future?

I have my bachelor's of music degree in piano performance and have always been intrigued by the prospect of graduate school. I have researched schools from time to time, applied to a couple, and was even accepted to one and offered a graduate assistantship, but for various reasons I never actually took the plunge. Now, after over 10 years of freelancing and, more recently,…Read more

The Collaborative Piano Blog

I didn't know there was such a thing until tonight: a collaborative piano blog! I found some good resources to print out, among them:

How to Get Work as a Freelance Collaborative Pianist
10+1 Ways to Advertise Your Services as a Collaborative Pianist
Recital Fee Question
9 Places to Connect Online With Other Pianists
Piano Quartet Lists and Resources
Christopher Foley's Resume (pianist, creator of the above-mentioned blog)

And...The Musician's Resume Handbook from Eastman School of Music!

I am so excited to…Read more

Online Resources for Chamber Music

I have been so excited this week to discover several amazing resources for downloadable sheet music and audio files of chamber music:

The Petrucci Music Library: "Our goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge."

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: "In our music library, you'll find free classical music sorted by performer and composer, featuring performances recorded live…Read more

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