Inspiring Instructors: The Power of a Piano Teacher
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question At The Frances Clark Center, we are honoring piano teachers who are working every day to make the world more empathetic, inclusive, and connected through the transformational power of music. We welcome you to celebrate your own...
How do you use Piano Inspires Kids in your studio?
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question The Co-Editors-in-Chief of Piano Inspires Kids, Andrea McAlister and Sara Ernst, recently answered some questions about the new magazine for young pianists. Find out more about the magazine below and go to kids.pianoinspires.com to join our community of inspired music makers!...
Have at It, Kid! | Honoring Ed Turley
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question We believe passionately that piano teachers change the world through their dedication to students and communities. Our Power of a Piano Teacher campaign shares personal tributes to document the extraordinary contributions of piano teachers. We welcome you to celebrate your teacher and...
Teaching Group Classes Remotely
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
Group classes are a vital form of interaction in the time of COVID-19. Now more than ever before, students cherish opportunities to see familiar faces, interact with peers, and make music with others. Online group classes can operate in much the same fashion as in-person...
Quick Teaching Tips – Using Zoom Whiteboard to Introduce Time Signatures
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
Learn how to introduce time signatures using the Zoom whiteboard. Presented by Rebecca Mergen Pennington. REBECCA MERGEN PENNINGTON (Co-Director of Practical Piano Pedagogy) is the Administrative Director of the New School for Music Study. Dr. Pennington holds a DMA and MM in Piano Performance from the...
Then and Now: A Retrospective of the New School for Music Study’s Sixty Years
Summer 2020; Vol. 12, No. 3
A green scrapbook full of newspaper clippings tells of the excitement surrounding the 1960 grand opening of the New School for Music Study in Princeton, NJ. “New Music School to Open in Princeton in September,” “New School has Workshops for Piano Teachers,””Frances Clark Announces Opening of the New School...
How do you teach technique to beginning piano students?
May 2016; Vol. 8, No. 3
Beginning piano technique: Back to basics “He’s just trying it out, so he doesn’t need an expert teacher. We’ll just go to the most inexpensive teacher we can find until we know he likes it.” How many times have we bristled at this kind of...