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Capturing the first sunrise in our practicing and performing

Posted on May 18, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I always ponder the process of learning a new piece and how I want to experience and re-experience a freshness that seems to come with my earliest exposure to the printed page. As I set out my fingering, isolate lines … Continue reading →

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An interview with Rada Bukhman, pianist, teacher, author, about the “Russian School of Piano Playing”

Posted on May 16, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Rada Bukhman, a Vancouver-based piano teacher with native Russian roots, has produced a 212-page soft cover volume that entices with its interspersed selections of compositions at various learning levels. The text offers a variety of fascinating topics, “Developing Initial Musical … Continue reading →

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A Tribute to traveling piano teachers

Posted on April 15, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I’m lucky that for decades I’ve been a stationary piano teacher, home-based for Skype, but having two youngsters whom I teach at their house up in the El Cerrito Hills. Fortunately, I get chauffeured to and from the location so … Continue reading →

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Learning J.S. Bach’s B minor Invention No. 15 (BWV 786) in baby steps

Posted on April 1, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Both embedded videos track my step-by-step approach to learning this beautiful composition. In the part one Instruction, I play slowly through the right hand to explore the subject, its articulation, fingering, execution of ornaments, and follow-up strand of 16th notes. … Continue reading →

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Piano Technique: Playing with bigger energies beyond the fingers

Posted on March 28, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Practicing a programmatic miniature from Kabalevsy’s Op. 39 Children’s Pieces can draw on energies well beyond the fingers. “Funny Event” is a good example with its series of sound bursts on the first beat of each measure. If a student … Continue reading →

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Attentive listening, singing, and awareness of harmonic rhythm improve phrasing at the piano

Posted on March 25, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I notice a common thread among many piano students, young and old. They tend to play measure to measure, doting heavily on downbeats as if the first beat of each bar begs for reinforcement. Perhaps a Marching Band might fall … Continue reading →

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Should a piano student be a carbon copy of the teacher?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

The whole universe of music teaching and learning became crystallized when I found myself bouncing ideas back and forth with two parents of Suzuki-trained children on a blog COMMENTS forum. First, I questioned the purist form of the Japanese imported … Continue reading →

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My Life Away from the Piano–and what the world is like in the East Bay

Posted on March 8, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

The spirit of Christine Bronstein’s web driven organization is undermined by inconsistent, self-defeating policies. Continue reading →

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Bringing the Keyboard closer to the long distance piano student

Posted on March 8, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Yesterday, my Logitech cam was un-clipped from the Big Mac during a lesson to Greece. The pupil, hanging out on the island of Kos, needed a graphic representation of my hands braving a few difficult measures in Bach’s Little Fugue … Continue reading →

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Piano Instruction: Can we over-analyze a Bach fugue?

Posted on February 25, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Little Bach Fugue in C, BWV 952 required insights into its organized structure so I could better teach it. But how much analysis was required and could it be trusted? Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: piano teaching

Capturing the first sunrise in our practicing and performing

An interview with Rada Bukhman, pianist, teacher, author, about the “Russian School of Piano Playing”

A Tribute to traveling piano teachers

Learning J.S. Bach’s B minor Invention No. 15 (BWV 786) in baby steps

Piano Technique: Playing with bigger energies beyond the fingers

Attentive listening, singing, and awareness of harmonic rhythm improve phrasing at the piano

Should a piano student be a carbon copy of the teacher?

My Life Away from the Piano–and what the world is like in the East Bay

Bringing the Keyboard closer to the long distance piano student

Piano Instruction: Can we over-analyze a Bach fugue?

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