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This
year's summer Taubman Institute & International Piano Festival
was a great success!
The Institute and Festival attracted concert pianists, aspiring
and advanced students of all ages, teachers of piano, and other
instrumentalists from across the country and around the world. They
gathered to learn firsthand Taubman concepts of the art of musical
performance.
Participants worked with Institute founder Dorothy
Taubman and co-founder Edna Golandsky,
as well as working one-on-one with trained Taubman faculty.
The Institute provides an intensive program of lectures, master
classes, technique and pedagogy clinics, as well as private lessons
with gifted and experienced faculty. Each evening our International
Piano Festival presents inspiring performances by outstanding and
exceptional artists.
Stay tuned for details on next
year's Summer Institute and International Piano Festival
What You Will
Learn
- Coordinate
movement and how to produce it
- How the Taubman
Approach promotes virtuosity
- How current
practices in piano study can inhibit virtuosity and lead to pain
and injury
- The mechanics
of the piano and its capabilities
- How to determine
the natural, basic finger, hand and arm positions
- How to evaluate
finger movements for coordinate playing
- Arm movements
that can enable you to achieve speed and power with ease
- How to identify
the cause, rather than the symptoms, of injury and pain
- How to develop
special skills, including scales, arpeggios, repeated octaves
and chords, rotary octaves, tremolo intervals, consecutive thirds,
leaps and trills
- How to choreograph
coordinate movements for the score
- Fingering,
grouping and shaping
- The interdependence
of the hands
- How technique
and interpretation are related
- How to use
Taubman's "Art Technique" for voicing, textures and color
- Innovative
approaches to interpretation
- How teachers
can use principles of movement to prevent problems and bring out
the best in their students
Other Topics
- Technical
solutions to selected Chopin Etudes
- Trills and
tremolos: single notes, intervals and combinations
- Effective
pedagogical tools to help beginning and intermediate students
- Solving some
of the repertoire’s most challenging passages
- Some of the
other issues covered in the summer program are frequently asked
questions such as:
- If muscular
development is indeed a factor in achieving virtuosity, how
is it that young prodigies and very gifted children emerge
mysteriously and magically with all the skills ready-made?
They
spend a minimum of time in developing these skills as compared
with many years of grinding that most students experience,
most of whom do not achieve the same virtuosity.
- Why is
it that many prodigies seem to lose their ability as they
grow older? Is
it that their talent diminishes, as some people think, or
is it that something happens to block their instinctive know-how?
This
also happens to accomplished pianists.
- Why could
some pianists like Rubinstein, Horowitz, Arrau, Serkin and
others perform into their eighties, while many other performers
currently on the concert stage -- both well-known and less
well-known -- suffer injuries due to what doctors have termed
"battle fatigue" at a much younger age?
- Should
pain and fatigue be a part of our practicing and playing,
and are they good for us, as we are told?
- Why is
it that after doing certain exercises at the instrument, we
feel worse than before? Is
it our fault, or the fault of the exercises?
- Why is
it that we need to practice so many hours and still cannot
tell at the end how the performance will go?
- Is relaxation
the answer to tension and vice versa? Have they produced the
answers and the results which we hoped for?
- Is the
4th finger an inherently weak finger?
Plus
Daily Master
Classes with
Master Teachers
Dorothy Taubman and Edna Golandsky
Mrs. Taubman
and Ms. Golandsky's work with Institute participants in a supportive,
inspiring Master Class environment will help you to develop new
levels of artistry. You will learn new ways to read and analyze
musical scores thus discovering the composers intention. These insights
will enable you to give greater meaning and depth to the music and
to communicate ideas and emotions more effectively through your
playing.
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