Workshop Topics

Stylistic Periods

  • Teaching Baroque Style
  • Teaching Classical Style
  • Teaching Romantic Style
  • Teaching Impressionistic style/Transforming Imagery into Sound
  • Teaching Contemporary Style

(These topics will take about 75 minutes, but it is possible to condense them.)

Technique

  • The Right Time for Technique:NOW!
  • Raising the bar of technical fitness at the piano
  • Building a sound technical foundation from the beginning
  • Gearing up for the flasy pieces? Technical equipments for learning and performing them.

Performance/Audition

  • What makes a performance tick?
  • Putting the final touches
  • Adding polish and sparkle

Communication

  • Developing our communication skills in teaching and performing

Miscellaneous

  • "No Strings Detatched"—Piano/Strings Collaboration
  • Sightreading—Why can't students read?
  • Memorization & Memory—Teaching Students How to Memorize
  • Teaching Rhythm—Why can't students count?
  • Pedaling—A Science or an Art?
  • No Time to Practice!—Time Management and Effective Practicing

General Teaching

  • Sincereity in Music—A Musical Journey to Re-Creating and Creating
  • Get-Well Music for the Single-Handed
  • Junior High Life Savers
  • What's New in the Duet World?
  • My Top 10 Intermediate Teaching Materials and Why

Specific Repertoire

  • Eastern Delight—Exploring Chinese Piano Music
  • Music of Ginastera
  • Teaching Turina
  • "Why do I HAVE to play Bach?"
  • An Exploration of the Music of Tansman
  • "Sentimental to Sizzling"—Music of Hispanic Heritage
  • Baroque Alternatives—Teaching Telemann, Handel, Scarlatti and others
  • Chopin Mazurkas & Waltzes—Discovering the Differences and Similarities
  • Why Teach Bartok?
  • Teaching Dello Joio and Mucynski
  • Teaching Debussy

Others—Lecture Format

  • Approaching Music From a Global Perspective
  • Capturing the Muse of Music: Communicating Creativity Through Pedagogy and Performance