Teaching

My current teaching schedule is full.  Please contact me to be placed on my waiting list.

I view the teacher-student relationship as a collaboration, and encourage students to develop their own pianistic voice.  This personalized approach is designed to produce performers who can think critically about a score rather than simply mimic.

Planning and effective practice habits lead to musical freedom, confidence and self reliance. Awareness, musical insight, and healthy technique are all part of becoming independent and creative at the piano.

I offer consultations to teachers of piano, with emphasis on practical and psychological challenges to artistic teaching.

I am grateful to Miss Claire James, assistant to the great pianist Egon Petri, for her inspired training in piano pedagogy.  James Wimer, assistant to Madame Renee Longy, profoundly influenced my approach to ear training pedagogy.