What to Expect at The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025
From the Performance Practice, Teaching Adults, and Business & Entrepreneurship Committee Chairs Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question The committees of The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025 contribute to the program of the conference by curating topic-based tracks from the call for proposals. These...
What suggestions would you give for maintenance practice of C.P.E. Bach’s “Solfeggietto”?
Keyboard Companion Spring 2006; Vol. 17, No. 1
Elvina Pearce, Editor Most of us would agree that in order for students to feel comfortable and at home with the music they perform, they need to learn it considerably in advance of the date of the actual performance. The question we face as teachers...
Teaching Advanced Students in Uncertain Times
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
Over the course of a few days in mid-March, the University of Colorado (CU), as many schools, quickly and suddenly transitioned to distance learning. All students who were able were asked to move home. All face-to-face engagements, including classes, private lessons, and committee meetings would move...
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein at 100: An Exploration of His Solo Piano Works
November 2018; Vol. 10, No. 6
Bernstein’s Musical Legacy As the Leonard Bernstein centennial draws to a close, it is an ideal time to consider the extraordinary career of one of the most significant musical figures of the last century. A prodigious multi-talent, Bernstein became a renowned composer, conductor, pianist, author,...