Highlights & Most Popular Content of 2019
We’re currently taking a break over the Festive Session and will resume further posts and updates in the New Year. In the meantime, the following are some of our highlights…
Happy Holidays
This is my final post for 2019 - let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy and peaceful holiday season. It has been a year of…
Ideal Gifts for a Pianist!
Are you looking for a present for someone who plays or teaches the piano? Our site now provides the ability to purchase a range of digital products and subscriptions as…
Inventing an Exercise from a Piece
People often ask me what sort of studies they can do to improve a particular difficulty they are experiencing in a given piece. The underlying assumption is we can just…
Burgmüller’s Op. 100: The Complete Series
I am delighted to announce my series on Burgmüller’s 25 studies, the Easy and Progressive Études, Op 100 is now complete and available as a full set. In my Online Academy…
Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata Video Walkthrough Series
For Beethoven, the key of C minor was especially associated with tragedy, drama and intensity; he wrote three piano sonatas in this key (op. 10 no. 1, op. 13, and…
Q-Spots Series: Ibert’s The Little White Donkey
The ten pieces that make up Jacques Ibert’s collection of impressionistic piano pieces, entitled Histoires, sound as fresh to us now as the day they were written. Actually, they were…
More Content Giveaways!
As part of our celebrations for the Online Academy's third birthday, we’re making a selection of popular content from across the site available free until the end of October 2019.…
The Fantasie-Impromptu
Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu, op. post. 66, is surely one of the composer’s most popular works – one that many pianists often try to play before they are quite ready for the technical…