5 Things to Know about Piano Inspires Kids Composition Contest
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question Attention budding composers! Piano Inspires Kids invites students to submit a piano solo for our first composition contest! Winning compositions will be featured in the Summer 2024 issue and on our website, kids.pianoinspires.com. Read below for all...
5 Things to Know about Piano Inspires Kids Composition Contest
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question Attention budding composers! Piano Inspires Kids invites students to submit a piano solo for our first composition contest! Winning compositions will be featured in the Summer 2024 issue and on our website, kids.pianoinspires.com. Read below for all...
Piano Inspires Kids: David, Plays!
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question The Winter 2024 Issue of Piano Inspires Kids is coming soon! Subscribers will be receiving the print issue in their mailboxes in the coming weeks. Not yet a subscriber? Click here to receive the issue and give...
Piano Inspires Kids: Winter Issue Sneak Peak
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question The Winter 2024 Issue of Piano Inspires Kids is coming soon! Subscribers will be receiving the print issue in their mailboxes in the coming weeks. Not a subscriber? Subscribe by Thursday, December 14 at kids.pianoinspires.com/subscribe to receive...
An Inspirational Force of Nature | Honoring Michelle Conda
Michelle Conda is a recipient of the 2023 Frances Clark Center Lifetime Achievement Award. Her extensive contributions to the field of piano pedagogy are extraordinary and exemplify outstanding dedication to the field of music and piano teaching. The Frances Clark Center Lifetime Achievement Award is...
NCKP 2023: Committee Programming Previews
NCKP: The Piano Conference will be in-person at the Westin Chicago Lombard from Wednesday to Saturday, July 26–29, 2023, and online on Friday to Sunday, June 9–11, 2023. The conference has a compelling array of topics covering all aspects of piano teaching, learning, and performing....
A Peek Inside Piano Inspires Discussion Events: Opportunities to Learn, Discuss, and Connect
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question We were pleased to welcome Dr. Brenda Wristen, Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of the Piano Magazine article “No Thumb or Fifth Finger on Black Keys, Except…” for an...
Class Piano and COVID-19
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
In this unprecedented time of uncertainty around COVID-19, class piano instructors are faced with the daunting task of moving instruction online. This task is made even more difficult with students in locations without access to a piano or keyboard. It is important to organize yourself and your students...
Benjamin Grosvenor: Beyond His Years
March 2018; Vol. 10, No. 2
When Benjamin Grosvenor walked onto the stage of Oberlin College’s Finney Chapel, he easily could have been mistaken for one of the many piano majors on campus. From the opening measures of the Bach French Suite in G Major, however, any thoughts that Grosvenor was...
The future of piano teaching – Technology and the learning process
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
Editor’s note: In the November/December 2014 issue, Clavier Companion launched a series of articles addressing the future of piano teaching. This article is part of that series, which will continue in future issues. “The popularity of this new pastime among children has increased rapidly ....
What are your thoughts on the future of piano teaching?
November 2014; Vol. 6, No. 6
What’s next for our profession? Clavier Companion asked twelve pedagogues from around the country to contribute their thoughts on the future of piano teaching. In the following article, each author provides a short musing on this broad question. This series will continue in future...
Twenty-First Century Pedagogy: A Whole New World Again
January 2014; Vol. 6, No. 1
Do you have an iPad or some other type of tablet? How about a smartphone? Do you use them in your lessons? A large number of responses would probably be in the affirmative, but how are university pedagogy programs training the next generation of piano...
A Partnership in Music and Life
Spring 2019; Vol. 11, No. 2
An Interview with Angela Cheng and Alvin Chow The National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy is thrilled to welcome Angela Cheng and Alvin Chow as the 2019 NCKP Conference Artists. This will be the second appearance at NCKP for the wife-husband duo, having first performed in 2005...
Isata Kanneh-Mason: A Rising Star
Autumn 2019; Vol. 11, No. 4
The Kanneh-Mason family is not your typical family. All seven siblings, whose ages range from nine to twenty-two, have achieved musical accomplishments far beyond their ages. As both soloists and in ensemble, they have quite an impressive list of performances to their credit, including the...
Anne-Marie McDermott: Artist, Leader, Innovator
Winter 2021; Vol. 12, No. 5
Andrea McAlister (AM): How are you holding up during this time? Are you enjoying a more relaxed schedule? Anne-Marie McDermott (AMM): The world is stopped but we’re all busier than ever! It seems that everything takes more effort and time these days. AM: And then you suddenly...