Playing Piano Music from the Classical Period
Graham Fitch discusses how to approach playing piano music from the Classical Period, starting with an exploration of touch and articulation.
Keyboard Conversations with Fred Karpoff
Video conversation between Fred Karpoff and Graham Fitch discussing teachers who inspired them, their online projects and approaches to technique.
Playing Baroque Music Pianistically
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.
Bach, Byrd and Maintaining Focus
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.
Online Workshops Update
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…
Q-Spots Series: Beethoven’s Für Elise
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…
Some Practical Suggestions for Debussy’s Voiles
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…
Interpretation: Can it be Taught?
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…
Piano Pot-Pourri in France
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…