Online lessons allow you to learn from any place you happen to be in the world and even at any time you feel like having a lesson! Besides interactive, "live" lessons via video conferencing, it's also possible to take asynchronous lessons — you send us recorded videos of your playing along with any questions or concerns you may have, and we reply with videos containing detailed commentary, practice suggestions and demonstrations. The major advantage to this is, of course, the flexibility and convenience you gain.

To insure that you are able to get the most out of our online lessons, we have invested in a high quality set up. Two camera angles, a projection of the sheet music and excellent sound quality with external microphones help you to hear and see all of the important details. On your end, you only need good headphones and a mobile device or laptop.

We often get asked whether it's too early or too late for someone to start music lessons. Our answer is: all human beings above the age of four are capable of making music. Learning an instrument, at any age, enriches our lives in many ways.

For children that start to learn an instrument at a young age, making music can become as natural a part of their self-expression as language, gesture and facial expression. Kids get to discover themselves and much more through music lessons. For example, they learn how to be open to unexpected surprises and new discoveries while playing and practicing and to trust in the learning process, even when the gratification from all their hard work is delayed rather than immediate.

For adults and teenagers, learning music can also be a very rewarding endeavor. Because they've lived more and already know themselves quite well, older students are able to understand musical concepts more quickly and improve their technique much more systematically and thoroughly than younger students. Even seniors who start learning in their golden years are able to develop the necessary muscle coordination and musical imagination to play movingly. Similar to learning a new foreign language or taking up a new sport, music can become a passionate hobby for anyone who wishes to invest time in it.

We regularly invite our students to participate in recitals. Entertaining an audience and learning to handle nerves are valuable skills for musicians and pretty much everyone else too.

Besides, it's fun, gives us a great reason to work extra hard and sometimes even reveals unexpected sides of ourselves of which we were unaware. Recitals are also a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow piano enthusiasts and to share the joy of making music, whether playing solo, in a duet or with other instruments or voices, together with family and friends.

Yuzu or 柚子 is an intensely aromatic citrus fruit and tastes like a combination of grapefruit, lemon and orange. Originally from China, today it is mainly cultivated in Japan, which produces about half of all the yuzu fruit in the world.

Yuzu is also the name of a fiery, spirited Shiba Inu who lives with Yu Tang, one of our piano teachers. Here are some photos.