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Happy New Year & What’s In Store!

Happy New Year & What’s In Store!

By Informance, 2025-01-02
Posted in: Events

Our online events kick-off with Adina Mornell’s Secrets of Experts (Part 2) followed by interactive workshops presented by Graham Fitch, William Westney & more!

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Tags: online eventsperformingpractice tools
Happy New Year & What’s In Store!
Learning Pieces, Beethoven & Bach

Learning Pieces, Beethoven & Bach

By Informance, 2024-12-05
Posted in: Practising

Our last Practice Clinic recording for the year features answers to questions on ornaments, a tricky passage and avoiding over analysis in the early stages of learning works by Bach & Beethoven!

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Tags: analysisbachbeethovenornamentspractice clinicpractice tools
Learning Pieces, Beethoven & Bach
Engaging Your Heart and Brain Like an Expert

Engaging Your Heart and Brain Like an Expert

By Informance, 2024-10-10
Posted in: Performing

In our blog post for this week, Adina Mornell gives a summary of some of the key themes introduced in her recent workshop, "I Played It Better at Home". The post…

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Tags: practice tools
Engaging Your Heart and Brain Like an Expert
First Make Friends With the Notes!

First Make Friends With the Notes!

By Informance, 2024-08-22
Posted in: Practising

William Westney introduces his new video series which gives a powerful, proven strategy that is easy to implement and frees us to play ANY piece of music freely, expressively and spontaneously.

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Tags: practice toolsSchumannWilliam Westney
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First Make Friends With the Notes!
Harvesting the Riches of Bartok’s Mikrokosmos

Harvesting the Riches of Bartok’s Mikrokosmos

By Informance, 2023-12-07
Posted in: Learning Pieces, Teaching, Technique

William Westney introduces his new video series on Bartok’s Mikrokosmos and explains why it is an indispensible “power tool” to him as a teacher.

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Tags: bartokmethod bookmikrokosmospractice toolsteaching techniqueWilliam Westney
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Harvesting the Riches of Bartok’s Mikrokosmos
Making Haste Slowly

Making Haste Slowly

By Informance, 2023-11-30
Posted in: Learning Pieces

In this week’s blog post, Prodigal Pianist Ryan Morison shares the approach and tools he used to “make haste slowly” in attempting to learn a challenging piece by JS Bach in an ambitious timescale!

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Tags: bachdeep learningFuguepartitapractice toolsstepladder
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Making Haste Slowly
Engaging Your Mind Learning a New Piece

Engaging Your Mind Learning a New Piece

By Graham Fitch, 2023-02-09
Posted in: Learning Pieces

Graham Fitch shows how to use a tool he calls Personalised Pattern Recognition when learning a new piece.

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Tags: deep learningjs bachpartitapractice toolspractising
Engaging Your Mind Learning a New Piece
How to Learn a Fugue

How to Learn a Fugue

By Informance, 2022-10-13
Posted in: News

Tips and a new video demonstration by Graham Fitch on how to learn complex contrapuntal music along with further info on our upcoming Baroque event!

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Tags: baroquecounterpointeventsFuguepiano coursepractice toolsSeparately
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How to Learn a Fugue
Free Online Event on Piano Day

Free Online Event on Piano Day

By Informance, 2022-03-24
Posted in: Events, News

To celebrate Piano Day 2022, we’re running a free, revised version of one of our most popular online workshops, Fundamentals of Piano Practice.

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Free Online Event on Piano Day
Brahms, Burgmüller and Baroque Touch

Brahms, Burgmüller and Baroque Touch

By Informance, 2022-01-27
Posted in: Practice tools, Practising

In this month’s Practice Clinic, Graham Fitch answered questions on works by Brahms, Chopin and Burgmüller. Topics discussed included playing rolled chords, practising grace notes, tackling demisemiquavers and Baroque style.

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Tags: baroqueBrahmsBurgmüllerChopinchordspractice toolstechnique
Brahms, Burgmüller and Baroque Touch

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