Start Your Next Piece the Right Way
Discover a clear five-stage process for starting a new piano piece with greater structure, direction and musical understanding from the outset.
Discover a clear five-stage process for starting a new piano piece with greater structure, direction and musical understanding from the outset.
Watch our latest Practice Clinic with Graham Fitch, featuring audience questions on building speed, ornaments, challenging repertoire and rubato, recorded during the audience Q&A at our recent day of presentations, demonstrations and live coaching.
From Bach and Haydn to Chopin, Debussy and Rachmaninoff, discover some of the repertoire likely to feature in Graham Fitch’s upcoming performance workshop!
What makes one pianist sound expressive while another, playing exactly the same notes, sounds mechanical? More often than not, the answer lies in phrasing. In this article, Graham Fitch explores how breathing, direction, accompaniment and musical imagination combine to transform notes on the page into compelling musical communication.
In this blog post we offer encouragement and suggestions for how to approach performing and to enjoy your playing to the full as an amateur pianist.
Discover why performance can feel so different from practice and how to prepare more effectively in our new course: Lights–Camera–Action.
Takeaways From a Four-Question Survey Yesterday’s player pianos were able to execute note-perfect performances. Yet, they lacked the engineering needed for expressive nuance. Fast forward to today’s machines. Robot fingers…
Graham Fitch answers questions from participants in his course on analysis, pattern recognition and applying various memorisation tools to pieces.
Learn how to break out of autopilot and make your piano practice more creative, engaging and effective with our Practice Sleuths, Graham Fitch and Adina Mornell.
Do you think of yourself as a performer? Take our short anonymous survey and help shape our upcoming course!