Tag: private piano teaching

• A welcome return to teaching

  

  I have always loved music and I adore the piano. Teaching allows me to share my passion and, I hope, to encourage a similar enthusiasm in my students. Fundamentally, the piano journey should be about enjoyment and self-fulfilment. Giving students permission to be less than perfect, liberating them from old-fashioned or limiting attitudes to learning…

  The Cross-Eyed Pianist

  May 24, 2019

  Piano teaching

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• An image crisis in independent piano teaching?

  I recently ran a survey, Perceptions of Independent Piano Teachers, as part of some research for a paper I am writing to present at the Oxford Piano Group meeting at the end of this month. Originally intended to offer some insight into whether private and independent piano teachers regard themselves as “professionals”, the survey revealed…

  The Cross-Eyed Pianist

  October 12, 2014

  Piano teaching

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