The Collaborative Pianist: What’s In A Name?
byDiversifying our piano students beyond the solo concert pianist Chamber Music is the most intimate form of musical collaboration. The repertoire is broad and…
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Diversifying our piano students beyond the solo concert pianist Chamber Music is the most intimate form of musical collaboration. The repertoire is broad and…
Each spring, as many teachers do, I host an all-student studio recital, and while the protocol remains the same from year to year, several…
In the same year AMEB is celebrating their Centenary, they will also be releasing a new piano syllabus for use from 2019. This will…
Over the years, the SA/NT branch of the AMEB has started a number of teachers’ groups in different regions — and one of them…
Good pedagogy moves from the known to the unknown. We all know this! However, we don’t always consider what is most well known to…
The What and the Why Learning the piano can be quite an isolating experience compared to other activities in a child’s life. Their sports…
Have you been uneasily watching students get their dopamine fix from beeps and tweets of so-cial media? Ah, valuable time that could be for…
Once upon a time, there were three different sized pianos: Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear. Ok, enough with the bedtime story style……
Piano teachers are often left feeling undervalued, mistreated, isolated and defeated in the quest of passing on a skill that once gave them joy,…
When someone asks you to teach them jazz does your pulse quicken? Does the thought of improvisation make your palms clammy? Creating and improvising…
When the term ‘twice-exceptional’ appeared in my early-career textbooks, I responded with a mixture of emotions.‘Wow! That must be describing the super-talented kiddies: child…
How should I best prepare my student for learning Debussy’s La fille avec le cheveux de lin?” was a question recently posed in the…