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Giving Back in Adult Piano Lessons
Here is Guest Writer Ria Carlo performing Bach Prelude in C, from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book One, live at the Cadillac Hotel earlier this year: I planned to travel to San Francisco on a business...
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Ensembles and Adult Piano Lessons
Alberto De Salas believes that playing in an ensemble is crucial to a pianist’s development. The founder of the Amateur Classical Musicians Association (ACMA), Alberto performed an Ástor Piazzolla...
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When Your Piano Teacher Is a Composer
Twentieth-century classical piano music, such as New Pictures at an Exhibition, for years intimidated Mark Cannon, a dedicated amateur pianist who is a psychiatrist by profession. Yet in the case of...
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How to Perform a Piano Concerto
For years, Ricker Choi, an amateur pianist from Canada, wanted to play a concerto with an orchestra, a dream shared by many students of adult piano lessons. In 2010, Ricker blazed into Berlin and...
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Rethinking Adult Piano Lessons with Mozart
In May of this year, the systems architect Gorden Cheng took an unconventional path to winning the 2012 Chicago Amateur Piano Competition. In the final round, he played not Rachmaninoff or Lizst, but...
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Visualization for Carnegie Hall
Photo by Frank Schramm. F or my performance at Carnegie Hall, I wanted to infuse my music with the same emotion I experienced at home. Of course, I was preoccupied with The Dress—what would I wear for...
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