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The
Taubman Approach:
“A
straightforward yet subtle approach to piano technique that
provides all of the instrumental tools the pianist needs to express
his or her artistic vision.” |
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A Natural and Powerful Technique
The Taubman Approach to music-making liberates pianists to play effortlessly unburdened by physical limitations. Based on principles of physiology, the Taubman Approach is built on the concept of coordinate motion defined as unified finger, hand and arm movements.
As pianists apply the Taubman Approach they not only unravel technical complexities that might block artistic expression, they free themselves from injury, pain and fatigue. As a result, virtuosity of the hands, tone projection and intellectual penetration emerge uniting the artist, the instrument and the music into a magical musical flow.
Whether you’re a performing artist, a student, a teacher or an instrumentalist, you can discover the power of Dorothy Taubman’s technique through a full range of instructional venues:
- A Tribute to Dorothy Taubman, Thursday May 24, 2007 at 7pm, Steinway Hall, a concert evening with pianist/composer Timothy Andres to benefit the Harry Taubman Scholarship Fund. View the invitation (still accepting reservations).
- Read about this year’s three-day Taubman Seminar, June 21-23 , at Lincoln Center in New York City, featuring daytime lectures, master classes, clinics, individual instruction, and concerts. You can also access a PDF brochure and registration form for the event here.
- Benefit from the many Cooperative Programs between the Taubman Institute and universities, associations and organizations that offer training events which stimulate and reinforce learning.
- Avail yourself of personal attention through private instruction as Taubman faculty members visit cities and create Taubman Learning Centers around the country.
- Discover the Taubman Approach in your own music room with the complete video series, a reference work you will refer to again and again. (available online here!)
View
excerpts of the Taubman technique videos. See examples of passages
from Chopin, Ravel, Beethoven and others.
About the Founder, Dorothy Taubman
Dorothy Taubman has spent more than fifty years of study and research in the field of piano pedagogy. Dorothy Taubman's ideas on interpretation are as penetrating as her approach to technique. Her master classes stress one of her major pedagogical goals – teaching how to read the composer's blueprint (the score) and how to blend each composer's intent and style with the performer's capabilities and individuality. Mrs. Taubman proceeds on the premise that every intelligent pianist can be trained to be interpretively self-reliant.
A celebrated innovator, with an international reputation for her revolutionary concepts and principles on the art of playing the piano, Dorothy Taubman has been praised in numerous prestigious publications for her work. In one of several articles in the New York Times, she was described as a "doyenne of the master class who understands a lot about how people play the piano." She has delivered papers at many conferences on Music Medicine and has given lectures and master classes at many colleges, universities, conservatories, conventions and festivals throughout the United States and abroad. These include Oberlin College, New England Conservatory, Tanglewood, Lincoln Center, The Gina Bachauer Piano Festival and The Rubin Academy and Jerusalem Music Center in Israel. Formerly a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College, she has been featured in numerous articles and interviewed in the Boston Globe, Piano and Keyboard and Clavier magazines.Currently she is a Visiting Professor of Piano at Temple University in Philadelphia. She teaches at her Brooklyn, New York studio.
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“The body is capable of fulfilling all pianistic demands without a violation of its nature if the most efficient ways are used; pain, insecurity, and lack of technical control are symptoms of incoordination rather than a lack of practice, intelligence, or talent.”
— Dorothy Taubman, Music Director/The Taubman Institute