Our latest Practice Clinic recording features answers to questions on balancing voices, reducing tension, articulation, shaping and achieving rhythmic fluency in works by Bach, Scarlatti, Liszt, Debussy, Schumann and Gershwin.
In this week’s blog post, Graham Fitch explores how imagination and narrative can be used to go beyond a literal rendition of notes to deliver performances that captivate and inspire listeners.
In 1839, Clara Wieck received a Christmas present from her fiancé, Robert Schumann - a set of three Romances (published with some slight alterations the following year as opus 28).…
I first published this post in July of 2016. Here it is again with one or two updates - including a link to the Online Academy's series on spread chords,…
This week’s guest blog post features an article on finding musical expression when learning new pieces by Ken Johansen. In this post, Ken suggests practise methods using examples from various pieces featured within his…
Have you ever pondered how many teaching hours in the course of piano teaching history have been devoted to certain famous passages from the repertoire? How much time, how much…
Down the years, I have been passing on a tip for voicing chords that was given to me by Philip Fowke. No doubt Philip inherited this from his teacher, Gordon Green, who had…
I had an email from a reader asking how he could learn to play by ear, so here are some random thoughts on the subject. When we play by ear…
