Complete Recordings Now Available
If you missed our Piano Day with internationally renowned pianist and teacher Graham Fitch, you can still access the complete recordings and enjoy the full day at your own pace.
The programme brought together two engaging presentations, a live performance workshop and an interactive Q&A session, offering insights into interpretation, technique, practice and performance through the opportunity to observe Graham working with a range of pianists and repertoire in real time.
What You’ll Discover
Presentation 1 – Those Pesky Ornaments
Trills, mordents, turns and embellishments can leave even experienced pianists uncertain about what the composer intended. In this presentation, Graham Fitch demystifies ornamentation by exploring the principles that underpin it across Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire. By understanding not only how ornaments are played, but why they are played that way, you’ll be able to approach decorated passages with greater confidence, stylistic awareness and musical insight.
Presentation 2 – The Art of Phrase Shaping
What makes one performance sound merely accurate while another seems to sing? In this presentation, Graham Fitch explores the ingredients of effective phrase shaping, revealing how touch, voicing, tonal layering, timing and pedalling work together to create direction, colour and shape in the music. Through demonstrations and repertoire examples, you’ll discover how these ideas can bring greater depth and variety to your playing while helping musical lines feel more natural, connected and alive.
Live Performance Workshop
Observe Graham coaching pianists on practice strategies, technical challenges and interpretation in a varied selection of repertoire, including:
- Haydn – Andante con variazioni in F minor
- Scriabin – Prelude in G-flat major, Op. 11 No. 13 and Prelude in D minor, Op. 17 No. 1
- J.S. Bach – Partita No. 1 in B-flat major (Prelude, Sarabande & Gigue)
- Debussy – Rêverie
- Chopin – Nocturne in C-sharp minor (Op. Posth.)
- Debussy – Arabesque No. 1
- Rachmaninoff – Prelude in D major, Op. 23 No. 4
Audience Q&A and Practice Clinic
The day concluded with an audience Q&A, featuring questions on building speed without tension, developing fluency in ornaments, practice strategies for a particularly challenging Rachmaninoff Prelude and understanding rubato.
About the Recordings
The complete recordings and presentation handouts provide a rich and inspiring mixture of practical ideas, musical insights and live teaching for pianists passionate about developing their playing.
Whether you watch the full programme or return to individual sessions over time, the recordings offer a valuable resource you can revisit as your understanding and playing continue to develop.
Recording Details
🎥 Complete recordings from Saturday 4th July 2026
📍 Recorded at 1901 Arts Club, Waterloo, Central London
🎹 Includes two presentations, live performance workshop and audience Q&A
💻 Watch at your convenience without any time limit!