Workshop Topics

   Basic Pedagogy

1. Teaching vs. Correcting: Every Teacher’s Dilemma
2. Preparing for Competitions: What are Judges Really Looking For?
3. User-Friendly Technical Training for Early Level Students
4. Developing Stylistic Awareness
5. Memorization—Psychological Data and Some Practical Tips
6. From Sonatinas to New Age Music: Effective Teaching in All Genres
7. Voicing: A Key to Artistic Pianism
8. Coping with Parents
9. Talking at the Boundaries: Developing Students’ Imagination
10. Musical Punctuation and the Art of Interpretation
11. Cures for the Technique Blahs: Practice Techniques for All Levels
12. Musicianship: Should this be Part of Piano Lessons?
13. The Power of Efficient Practice: Cures for the Bored-Practice Blues
14.  Preparing Students to Handle Stage Fright
15.  Fundamentals of Teaching Good Tone
16. The Three-Cornered Connection: Piano Lessons from the Vantage Point of Students, Parents and Teachers (n.b this is a panel discussion)
17. Teaching Musical Interpretation Through Creative Alternatives
18. Teaching Young Men: Some Advice from a Recovering Boy
19. Building Technique in Intermediate Students
20. Fingering: An Underappreciated Art

   Piano Literature, Style and Performance

1. The Teaching Pieces of Muzio Clementi: It’s Not All about Sonatinas!
2. Gems from the Piano Teacher’s Vault: Forgotten Pieces Overdue for Rediscovery
3. Piano Music from South America
4. Secrets of Form in J.S. Bach’s Inventions
5. Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words: A True Classic
6. From Sonatinas to New Age: Effective Teaching in All Genres
7. Hanon and Czerny—There’s Life in the Old Boys Yet!
8. Teaching Musical Interpretation through Creative Alternatives
9. Music of the Romantic Period: Practical Performance Practice