Piano Pedagogy Seminar

We were not only proud to have been invited, but more that some of our students were selected to perform during the seminar and whose works formed part of the seminar's discussion.

Applying tonal analysis techniques with a light touch, in this piano workshop pursued the characteristic synthesis of understanding, intuition, and skill which underlies a convincing and moving performance.

Blurring boundaries between "theory" and "practice," explored how an expert hearing of a work's surface and subsurface design reveals a suspenseful tonal drama, ignites the timbral imagination, inspires solutions to technical problems, and serves as "litmus test" for the coherent transmission of the music to the audience.

No experience in advanced music analysis was expected of participants. Both works in progress and stage-ready repertoire are equally welcome, as long as they are performed from memory.

Participants were invited to bring their own selection of 1–2 pieces to the workshop, as long as they were short-forms in "common-practice tonality." (Generally, this designation includes most piano compositions between Bach and Brahms; .