As we take a short break over the Festive Season, we’d like to reflect on what has been a wonderfully productive and inspiring year. We’ll be resuming our full programme of activities in the New Year, with an exciting line-up of events designed to support you in your pianistic endeavours and help you stay motivated with your piano goals for 2026.
Next year’s schedule will feature a mix of brand-new presenters making their debut in our programme, alongside the return of well-loved favourites. Together, they’ll be offering fresh insights and practical strategies to help you practise more effectively, master essential techniques, and strengthen skills such as rhythm, theory and musical understanding.
We’re also delighted to share that our popular practice clinics are undergoing a major overhaul, with several exciting new developments planned. These enhancements will give you even more opportunities for guidance, personalised support and feedback across a wider range of topics.
Below, we’ve gathered some of this year’s highlights – from blog articles and events to major content launches – to celebrate the progress we’ve made and set the stage for a rich and engaging year of musical growth!
Blog Articles
- The Practice Sleuths
- Crossing Hands, Automatic Fingering & Practising Ornaments
- A Practice Toy Box
- A Keyboard Conversation with Philip Fowke
- Less Pain, More Gain
- Rhythm Practice Done Right
- The Thumb-Under Trap
Events & Workshops
- Learn a New Piece with Graham Fitch – This blended course featured video lessons, presentations and interactive workshops guiding you through the process of learning a new piece.
- Freeing Your Technique – Discover a more natural, expressive way to play the piano using Fred Karpoff’s signature three-dimensional technique.
- Deciphering New Pieces – Ken Johansen’s two-part workshop shows how to bridge the gap between the first reading of a new piece and how to start preparing it for the first lesson.
- Secrets of Experts Parts 2 & 3 – Parts 2 & 3 of Adina Mornell’s course teaches how to create your own recipe for successful and enjoyable performance.
- Practice Tools Interactive Workshop Series – New interactive workshop series showing how to apply Graham Fitch’s tried and tested practice tools for effective, enjoyable and rewarding practising (more information on our interactive workshops is available here)
- Making Friends With the Notes Together – William Westney shows how to implement a fun, liberating and rewarding approach to mastering any classical piece as an interactive complement to his video series.
- Essential Musical Skills – Lona Kozik presented a variety of workshops on sight reading, keyboard harmony and theory!
This video brings together a few short excerpts from the recordings of these events – bite size nuggets and insights that offer a taste of the ideas explored throughout the year:
Click here to view our calendar for a listing of all of our events which took place this year!
Content Highlights
- Practice Tools Reloaded – A revised and expanded collection of over 30 videos by Graham Fitch, reshot with updated content, new repertoire examples, and additional features.
- ABRSM 2025–2026 Video Lessons – Over 40 new video lessons published, covering the new syllabus across elementary, intermediate, advanced and Grade 8 levels, including perennial favourites and exciting repertoire discoveries:
- Bach, Beethoven, Brahms & Bartok – Further updates to our repertoire library included:
- Brahms Intermezzo in B-Flat Minor, Op. 117 No. 2 – A new From the Ground Up edition for this work featuring step-by-step guidance on learning this piece.
- Step into the ’48’ – Four new instalments added to Beate Toyka’s guide to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, taking the total works covered to 28!
- Beethoven’s Seven Bagatelles (Op. 33) – A new series of video lessons by Graham Fitch shows how to bring the distinct character of each of these charming, witty gems to life!
- Inside Bartok’s Mikrokosmos – The remaining instalments in William Westney’s video series illustrating in detail why Bartok’s Mikrokosmos has long been his indispensable, uniquely effective “power tool” as a teacher.
Thank you once again to all our readers, subscribers, and community members for your support throughout the past year – it’s been a pleasure to accompany you on your musical journey. We look forward to continuing to support your playing in the year ahead and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming online events!