New Online Workshops
Our online workshops and events programme for the next few months features a combination of repeats of popular events and new sessions based on requests and feedback from our participants…
Burgmüller’s La candeur
At first glance La candeur, the first of Burgmüller’s twenty-five studies, opus 100, looks like any other elementary study in C major - with a stream of quavers (8th notes) in one…
New Study Editions for Burgmüller’s Op. 100
As readers of my blog will know, I am not a great believer in too much separation of the study of technique from real music. Therefore, when I recommend studies…
Simplifying the Score
When we begin work on a new piece, we might feel bewildered by all the information on the page. The score is dense with notes, fingerings, pedallings and other instructions…
A Lesson in Sight-Reading from Julia Child
This weeks' guest blog post introduces the newly published second part of our advanced sight-reading curriculum by Ken Johansen, associate professor at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University…
New Practice Tools Workshop!
Due to the popularity of our online workshop on the Practice Tools, we are pleased to announce a new follow-on workshop. This second workshop builds on the concepts introduced in…