By Dr. Julie Knerr

This has been an exciting month in Piano Safari world. Katherine Fisher lives in Athens, Ohio, and teaches at the Athens Community Music School. Her husband, Dr. Christopher Fisher, teaches at Ohio University, which is how the Fishers ended up in Athens.

I (Julie Knerr) lived in Oklahoma up until a month ago (and was in Kenya in July on a missions trip! How’s that for traveling a lot?). But because we really want to spend this school year focusing on developing Piano Safari, I moved to Athens, Ohio. I will also be teaching through ACMS, and am really having a great time living in this beautiful town, getting to know the local coffee shops, and giving long piano lessons to the Fisher’s very bright 4 year … Read More

By Dr. Julie Knerr

Welcome! We are so happy you have found our blog! Piano Safari® is a piano method for beginning piano students written by Katherine Fisher and Julie Knerr. Our website is pianosafari.com, and we also have a Piano Safari FaceBook page and a Teachers Facebook Group called Teaching Piano Safari.
On this blog, we will post “in the trenches” information on the development of
Piano Safari development, thoughts on topics in Piano Pedagogy, student anecdotes that we hope will be helpful to teachers, and anything else we can think of to help all teachers in this quest to be the best piano teachers we can be.

We welcome comments!