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DEVELOPING STRATEGIES
FOR UNRAVELING COMPLEXITIES IN PASSAGE WORK
Thursday April 1, 2010 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Steinway Hall 109 West 57th Street New York, NY
Open to all piano teachers, PTC members and guests
Sondra Tammam will present innovative ideas on piano technique that resolve
technical difficulties to make it easier to
concentrate on music-making. These often overlooked pedagogical strategies are based on the concepts of grouping and shaping.
Ms. Tammam explores the principle of how grouping works both to organize the playing of the repertoire,
and also to enhance the music.
Examples show how white/ black key relationships, and concepts of Dorothy Taubman can make passages more manageable.
She will
demonstrate “hands on” examples based on these ideas. Members are invited to bring passages that are “trouble spots” in any repertoire -- student or advanced.
Sondra Tammam has years of experience teaching the Taubman Approach and is also internationally known as a soloist and chamber musician.
Her performances have received enthusiastic acclaim in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Ms. Tammam won first prize in of the
Frinna Awerbuch Competition, the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Paderewski Competition, a prize in the Kosciuszko competition, the Gold Medal
of the national Guild, and the John Myers award. She is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, where she received her
Bachelor and Master degrees respectively.
Ms. Tammam has appeared at MTNA Conventions, and has given lectures and master classes for many organizations
in the U.S. and Israel. She has served on the faculty of MSM, as visiting artist at Tunghai University in
Taiwan and currently presents the Taubman Seminar project at Temple University. The Clavier (Dec. ’05) featured an article she co-authored about
performance injury. Her performances are available on 3 CD’s.
For further information, please see
www.TaubmanSeminar.com
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All Meetings were held
at
Steinway Hall
109 West 57th
Street
New York, NY 10019
Unless Otherwise Noted
OCTOBER 2008 GENERAL MEETING
American Popular Piano, a Course of Study, with Christopher Norton
Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
Review by Mirna Lekic, PTC
Christopher Norton (www.christophernorton.com)
is active as a contemporary pianist, composer, arranger and educator, and his newest project created in collaboration
with Scott McBride Smith, aims to provide well-written pieces designed to appeal to students less attracted to standard classical repertoire.
His presentation on October 26, 2008, came not long after a general meeting of the Piano Teachers
Congress featuring 'pupil saver' materials, which like the American Popular Piano Series, attempted to address the growing number of students
who begin to lose interest in and end their piano studies after the initial few years.
There's sound pedagogy behind Norton's compositions regardless of one's personal taste and style preference.
They introduce a variety of popular styles, including blues, bossa nova, cha cha, and jazz, and aim at developing the same skills necessary
for refined performance of classical repertoire. The pieces are both lyrical and rhythmic, solo and duet, and cover all levels of pre-college study.
Norton is highly effective in promoting his work and using technology to enhance both his method and workshop, including creating CD accompaniments
different from those written out for the teacher. American Popular Piano includes four books at each level (Repertoire, Etudes, Skills, and Technic)
and unlike most other piano courses and methods, it features the study of improvisation done in a structured and easy-to-follow environment.
For these reasons the series is likely to find its place in the study of piano and musical arts in general.
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| MASTER CLASS FOR PTC AWARD WINNERS
Saturday, April 4, 2009 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm
Open to all piano teachers, PTC members and guests
The award winners from the PTC Honors and Awards auditions will play their winning pieces for Oxana Yablonskaya (B.M., M.M., D.M.A., Moscow Conservatory),
Emerita Professor of Piano at the Juilliard School. Dr. Yablonskaya has performed throughout Russia, the U.S.A. and over 40 countries.
The Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute opened in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in Tuscany, Italy in October of 2008 and
from September 2009 will have joint program with Luka Boccerini Conservatory and will offer BM and MA degrees.
In addition, Yablonskaya Doctorate program will open in September 2009 in Baku State Music Academy in Azerbaijan.
For further information, please see
www.chopinsocietyny.org/bio-oxana-yablonskaya
| FOLKLORIC PIANO MUSIC BY GRIEG, GRAINGER, AND BARTOK
Thursday, April 30, 2009 from 10:30 am until 12:00 noon
Q&A from 12:00 to 12:30
Open to all piano teachers, PTC members and guests
Joseph Smith will compare and contrast the folksong settings of Grieg, Grainger and Bartok and examine Grieg's influence on the other two composers.
Selections from Grieg's Opus 66 and 72, Jutish Medley by Grainger and Hungarian Peasant Songs by Bartok are included in the program.
Smith’s disc of folkloric music by Grieg and Grainger was lauded for his "spirit and style" by the renowned critic Harris Goldsmith.
Joseph Smith is well known to New York audiences for his recitals and lectures. His column "Rare Finds" has appeared in Piano Today, since 1993,
and for several years “Joseph Smith's Piano Bench” was heard on National Public Radio's "Performance Today." Mr. Smith’s recordings include
“Familiar Melodies,” “Piano Waltzes from Beethoven to Poulenc,” and most recently, “Piano Barcarolles from Venice to the Mississippi” (Brioso).
He is editor of such diverse anthologies as “Four Early 20th Century Piano Suites by Black Composers,” “Country Gardens and Other Piano Works by
Percy Grainger,” American Piano Classics,” and “Tangos, Milongas, and Other Latin-American Dances for Solo Piano.” His anthology, “Rare Finds,”
(Steinway Library) includes essays on each piece, and a CD.
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| THE TOTAL TEACHER SUPPORT PACKAGE
Sunday, September 13, 2009 from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Bechstein Piano Centre, 207 West 58th St.,New York, NY 10019
Open to all piano teachers, PTC members and guests
Amy Immerman, co-founder of the Cincinnati Music Academy, is Division Director-elect of the East Central Division of the Music Teachers Association.
She will lead an in-depth workshop to demonstrate the National Music Certificate Program, offered jointly by
The Royal Conservatory of Music and Frederic Harris Music. The goal of the program is to allow students to work towards a nationally recognized music standard;
to enjoy up to 12 levels of progressive study for 24 music disciplines; to earn school credits, certificates, and awards; to become accredited with the
Pedagogy Certfidicate Program; and to count on more than 100 quality support materials.
For more information,
(www.nationalmusiccertificate.org).
A complete listing on all teacher workshops
by the NCMP is at (www.nationalmusiccertificate.org/resources/workshops.html) .
For further information or to register, please telephone Judy Woo at 646-752-9181 or email Judy at
judywoo@mac.com.
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FAVORITE REPERTOIRE SESSION:
20th and 21st Century Teaching Pieces
Thursday, October 15, 2009,
Refreshments from 10:00 to 10:30, Program from 10:30 to 12:30
Open to all piano teachers, PTC members and guests
We encourage all participants to perform 20th and 21st Century pieces that they have found highly teachable. For those who wish to perform:
• Bring a favorite in print teaching piece that motivates your
students to discuss and perform.
• All levels are welcome from early teaching pieces to
advanced repertoire.
• You may wish to perform the piece as a whole or in
part.
Please contact Lisa Bastien Hanss to RSVP or if you have any questions:
212-996-7795 or email
lisabastien@verizon.net.
| PREPARING STUDENTS for AUDITIONS and COMPETITIONS:
TURNING FEAR INTO FUN!
Thursday, November 12, 2009 from 10.30 a.m. to 12.00 Noon
Klavierhaus Pianos, 211 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019
(between 7th and Broadway) (212) 245-4535
Open to all piano teachers, PTC members and guests
Ingrid Clarfield is Professor of Piano and Coordinator of the Piano Department at Westminster
Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. Recently, Ms. Clarfield was honored at the Music Teachers National
Association National Conference by being named an MTNA Foundation Fellow.
Learn the strategies of a “veteran” teacher who has successfully prepared hundreds of students for thousands of performances,
auditions and competitions. You too can turn your students’ fear into FUN!
Website for Ingrid Clarfield:
www.ingridclarfield.com.
| TEACHING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Third Street Music School Settlement, Studio 3A
235 East 11th Street (near Second Ave) NYC
Open to all piano teachers, PTC members and guests
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an overview of pervasive issues of children with special needs, primarily focusing on Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the Autistic Spectrum, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Sensory Processing issues.
We will look at some of the primary developmental needs/issues of these children and review strategies for how to address their needs
in private and group music instruction.
Sarah Perry, EdM, MT-BC, is a board certified music therapist and music educator in NYC.
Sarah is an adjunct instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, teaching graduate level courses, guitar and cello in the music education program
where she is also a doctoral candidate. Sarah currently teaches general music and choir at Aaron School, an elementary special education school in
Manhattan and also provides private instruction to both typically developing children and children with special needs in violin, guitar, and piano.
As a consultant, Sarah has developed the “First Adventures in Sound” curriculum for Midori and Friends as well as led professional
development and music therapy workshops for programs through Hofstra University, Midori and Friends, and the NYC Departments of Aging and Mental Health.
Sarah’s research includes the role of music in the development of communication skills of children, examining the learning responses of
special needs students in the general and music classroom, and looking at the musical engagement of children with sensory processing disorder.
RSVP to
judywoo@mac.com
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