How to Find a Good Piano Teacher: Getting Started
To get started finding a piano teacher for adult piano lessons, first establish your teacher's desired characteristics and then network to find candidates. »
Adult piano students and teachers
Falling in Love with Bach
While on vacation, Robin Sloane Seibert stays inside the beach house to tackle the challenges of Bach's Prelude in E Major, and ends up finding summer love. »
The Old, Yellowish Piano Keys
Nino Dangadze plays Rêverie by A. Ovenberg. At age 14, drained by the pressure of the piano lessons for the previous seven years, I was looking forward to moving on with my life, as far away from the ... »
Don’t Sit at the Piano Like a Tree Trunk
Amateur pianist Nino Dangadze discusses the Georgian style of playing, useful advice on posture at the piano, and how her piano teacher helped her open up. »
A Marriage of Poetry and Classical Piano Music
“. . . Now I want something different, Something different, without a name, I know surely that I will be lost, dead. . .” So lamented Terenti Graneli, the 20th century poet from the Republic of Georgi... »
On the Hook to Play at My Brother’s Wedding
Preparing for a performance at her brother's wedding propelled amateur pianist Joanna Eng from feeling depressed about the piano to finding purpose. »
Classical Piano Music Infused with Traditional Irish Singing
Young, Dublin-based composer Louis Ryan explains how his modern-day polyphonic études for piano were influenced by traditional Irish folk singing, Sean Nós. »
Facing Down Performance Anxiety with the Bergamasque Prélude
In this video exclusive to GRAND PIANO PASSION™, Sara Solovitch plays Claude Debussy’s Prélude from the Suite Bergamasque. espite Sara Solovitch’s first recital with the Bergamasque Prélude, which she... »
A Disastrous Recital
Adult piano student Sara Solovitch takes on the prelude from Debussy's Suite Bergamasque, tackling her frustrations and performance anxiety along the way. »
Expression Is the Need of My Soul
Embracing imperfection, finding courage, and stating clear goals are just some of the keys to unlocking creative expression through practicing the piano. »
Adult Piano Lessons in a Time-Starved World
Enrolled in adult piano lessons, a busy working professional and single mother of two wonders how artists find time to practice, and engage in creativity. »
From Accounting to Adult Piano Lessons to Guiding Light
In this interview, the second in a series, Indusekhar Menon relates how adult piano lessons sparked a significant career change and a foray into composing. »
When An Adult Saw a Piano for the First Time
ndusekhar Menon hails from Pune, India, a city known as the Oxford of the East. In his early 30s, after looking upon a grand piano for the first time, he joined the global community of people with a p... »
Rushing Haydn in Adult Piano Lessons
After flying through life, an adult piano student learns that practicing slowly is the only way to really learn and understand a difficult Haydn movement. »
How Adult Piano Lessons Enriched My Writing Life
Returning to adult piano lessons after a 25-year hiatus from the piano becomes the fodder for Nancy M. Williams's intensive writing residency and memoir. »
Rethinking Adult Piano Lessons with Mozart
Gorden Cheng, who won an amateur piano competition playing a Mozart sonata, explains why Mozart can be more difficult to master than Liszt or Rachmaninoff. »
An Amateur Pianist Creates a Concert Series
Glenn Kramer formed the San Diego group AmateurPianists with the goal of providing venues for amateur pianists of any level to gain performance experience. »
When Your Piano Teacher Doesn’t Fit
Piano teacher Dr. Gail Fischler talks about her varied experiences with piano teachers and teaching styles during her own adult piano lessons in the past. »
How a Varsity Football Player Turned to Classical Piano Music
Classical piano music, in the form of a Chopin Nocturne, helped this varsity football player persevere through poor health after suffering a serious injury. »
