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Meeting April 2026
Duo Mundi: “Duet Gems and Their Challenges,” or “’Elbows In!’ Adventures in Piano Four Hands”
Meeting March 2026
Orli Shaham: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Performing Mozart But Were Afraid to Ask”
Meeting February 2026
Edna Golandsky: “The Relationship Between Good Fingering and a Healthy Technique”
Meeting November 2025
John Slavick: “The Piano Technology Triangle: Tuning, Regulation & Voicing”
Meeting October 2025
Scott Price: “Inclusive Teaching in the Private Studio”
Meeting September 2025
Victor Rosenbaum: “Why Music, Why Piano?: Redefining Our Mission for the Next 75 Years.”
Meeting April 2025
Peter Mack: “The Transfer Student”
Meeting March 2025
Dennis Alexander: “The Joy of Teaching Adult Students”
Meeting February 2025
Heather Smith: “Navigating Finances: Your Financial Roadmap as a Music Teacher”
Meeting October 2024
Dr. Molly Gebrian: “The Science of Performing from Memory”
Meeting September 2024
Yoheved Kaplinsky: “Insist On Perfection/Good Practice Habits”
Meeting March 2024
Boris Berman: Prokofief Piano Sonatas
Meeting February 2024
Mario Ajero: Keeping Your Tempo Up with Technology in the Piano Studio
Meeting October 2023
Fred Karpoff: Professional Level Arpeggios and Effortless Trills and Tremolos:
Making the Jump from “Intermediate” to “Advanced”
Meeting September 2023
Phyllis Lehrer: “The Sonata as Drama (and Sonatinas Too!)”
Meeting February 2023
Noa Kagayama: Mental Preparation in Practice and Performance
Meeting October 2022
Mathilde Handlesman: “Claude Debussy and the Forgotten French Impressionists”
Meeting September 2022
Alan Walker: “Franz Liszt and the Keyboard”
Meeting March 2022
Fred Moyer: “Taking the Road Less Traveled” and “Between the Beats: The Craft of Enunciation”
Meeting February 2022
Kay Zavislak: “The Art of Interpreting Keyboard Music from the Classical Period”
Meeting October 2021
Jenny Lin: “Shostakovich’s Piano: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87”
Meeting September 2021
Ingrid Clarfield:“Keeping Music Alive After 50 Years and Still Learning. Pedagogical Tips from A to Z”. Handout and Suggested Repertoire
Meeting March 2021
Andrea Kalyn: “Creative Confidence and the Culture of Practice”
Meeting February 2021
Artina McCain: “Kaleidoscope: Introducing Students to Underrepresented Composers”
Meeting October 2020
Steven Mayer: “Gottschalk: From Chopin to Creole”
Meeting September 2020
Donal Fox: “The Art of Making Mistakes, and the Art of Discovery, Transformations, Variations and Improvisations“
Meeting February 2020
Christopher Fisher: “The Secret Ingredient for Piano Teaching Success: The Powerful Role of Parents“
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Meeting October 2019
Elizabeth Eschwé:“Clara Schumann’s Life and Love: a Scenic Recital on the Occasion of her Bicentennial”
Meeting September 2019
Marvin Blickenstaff: “Curriculum Innovations for the New Year”
Meeting October 2018
Jiayan Sun: “Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven: Fantasieren, or Improvisation, as the Focal Point of Their Music”
Meeting September 2018
Wynn-Anne Rossi: “Creative Composition Toolbox” and “American Music: Jazz Meets Latin”
Meeting March 2018
Bruce Brubaker: “Again and again: Minimalism and Postminimalistic Piano Music”
Meeting February 2018
Dr. Julie Knerr: “152 Strategies for Effective and Efficient Teaching” and “Lost Gems of the Piano Repertoire”
Meeting January 2018
Seymour Bernstein: Examining Chopin’s Notational indications
Meeting September 2017
Catherine Kautsky: Teaching Debussy: A Gateway to Story-Telling, Pedaling, Coloration, and Imaginative Listening
Meeting March 2017
Lisa Parker: Getting Off the Piano Bench
Meeting October 2016
Patrick Gannon: Musicians are Athletes Too: Lessons from Sport Psychology
Teachers’ Exchange November 2015
Sarah Takagi: Authentic Musicality and Understanding through Improvisation
Meeting October 2015
Phillip Kawin: Essentials of Tone Production and Pianism
Meeting September 2015
Gerald Klickstein: Teaching Performance Skills
Teachers’ Exchange April 2015
Eugenia Gerstein, Catherine Hirata: Teaching Music Theory and Ear training
Meeting March 2015
Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky: The Dorothy Taubman Legacy: Myths and Facts
Meeting January 2015
Sandra Rosenblum (Chair), Deborah Yardley Beers, Miriam Gargarian and Sivan Etedgee: Neglected Corners of the Piano Repertoire
Teachers’ Exchange Minutes April 2014
Lisa Caliri, Nancy Morgan, Robert Finley – Teaching adults: Pedagogy and opportunities beyond the studio
Meeting March 2014
Joseph Smith: From Tundra to West Texas: Folksongs in Piano Literature
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