The Practice Tools Lecture Series
I am very pleased to announce a new video lecture series on the practice tools available now on the Online Academy. The Practice Tools What are the practice tools? There…
Introduction to the Practice Tools
I’m pleased to announce my new course, Introducing the Practice Tools, which is taking place on Saturday, 13th of July 2019 at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel in central London.…
Arpeggiation in Piano Playing
I first published this post in July of 2016. Here it is again with one or two updates - including a link to the Online Academy's series on spread chords,…
Burgmüller’s Op. 100
Burgmüller’s charming set of 25 studies, the Easy and Progressive Études (Op 100) still manages to sound fresh after all these years, and continues to inspire intermediate pianists. Each étude…
Top Tips #1: Start Anywhere!
I first published this post on top tips in October, 2015. I am republishing it now, with a couple of updates. *** *** *** The first of an occasional…
Vandalising Mozart’s K. 331?
In 2014, an amazing discovery was made in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest – a four-page fragment of part of Mozart’s Sonata in A major, K. 331, in the…