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Keyboard Conversations with Fred Karpoff

Keyboard Conversations with Fred Karpoff

By Informance, 2023-05-18
Posted in: Blog, Inspiration

Video conversation between Fred Karpoff and Graham Fitch discussing teachers who inspired them, their online projects and approaches to technique.

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Tags: ann scheinforearm rotationfred karpoffJulian Martinkeyboard conversationsLeon Fleishertechnique
Keyboard Conversations with Fred Karpoff
Playing Baroque Music Pianistically

Playing Baroque Music Pianistically

By Informance, 2022-10-27
Posted in: Blog, Events

A write-up of our Baroque Day event which took place on the 22nd October featuring workshops & presentations on playing Baroque music on the piano.

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Tags: bachbaroqueFugueperformance workshops
Playing Baroque Music Pianistically
Bach, Byrd and Maintaining Focus

Bach, Byrd and Maintaining Focus

By Informance, 2022-07-14
Posted in: Blog

In this month’s Practice Clinic, Graham Fitch answers questions on maintaining focus and concentration when practising, fingering and fatigue in a Chopin Nocturne and several topics in works by Bach and Byrd.

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Tags: bachbyrdChopinFuguenocturnepractice clinic
Bach, Byrd and Maintaining Focus
Online Workshops Update

Online Workshops Update

By Informance, 2020-07-21
Posted in: Blog

We’ve expanded our increasingly popular online workshops programme further this month by adding sessions on several new topics. The first of these were on developing sight-reading skills and healthy piano…

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Online Workshops Update
Q-Spots Series: Beethoven’s Für Elise

Q-Spots Series: Beethoven’s Für Elise

By Graham Fitch, 2020-02-06
Posted in: Blog

This is the third in my series on Q-Spots, and I'm going to feature one short excerpt from Beethoven’s Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, WoO 59 – otherwise known…

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Tags: beethovenChaining practiceFur Eliseslow practice
Q-Spots Series: Beethoven’s Für Elise
Some Practical Suggestions for Debussy’s Voiles

Some Practical Suggestions for Debussy’s Voiles

By Graham Fitch, 2020-01-30
Posted in: Blog

There is one scale that can take plenty of pedal without sounding in any way offensive, the whole-tone scale. Because all six notes of the whole-tone scale are the same…

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Tags: Debussy VoilespedallingWhole-tone scale
Some Practical Suggestions for Debussy’s Voiles
Interpretation: Can it be Taught?

Interpretation: Can it be Taught?

By Graham Fitch, 2019-09-05
Posted in: Blog

I am delighted to publish this guest post from Katrina Fox, a graduate of The Piano Teachers' Course UK whom it was my pleasure to work with in my tutor…

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Tags: bartokCimarosainterpretationJacques IbertSchubertWalter Carroll
Interpretation: Can it be Taught?
Piano Pot-Pourri in France

Piano Pot-Pourri in France

By Graham Fitch, 2019-02-18
Posted in: Blog

Following on from the Piano Holiday at Saint Laurent I tutored last summer, this new Spring Course will include master classes, workshops, individual tuition, a student concert and opportunities to…

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Piano Pot-Pourri in France
More Videos on the Trinity College London Series

More Videos on the Trinity College London Series

By Graham Fitch, 2019-01-24
Posted in: Blog

As part of the Online Academy’s series on Trinity College London’s current syllabus, I am happy to let you know that four more video walkthroughs have been added this week (with plenty…

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More Videos on the Trinity College London Series
The Piano Teachers’ Course UK Continuing Professional Development Days

The Piano Teachers’ Course UK Continuing Professional Development Days

By Graham Fitch, 2018-10-16
Posted in: Blog

I am one of the principal tutors on The Piano Teachers' Course UK, and am delighted to announce a new venture that we're starting this year, a series of seven…

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The Piano Teachers’ Course UK Continuing Professional Development Days

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