In addition to private lessons, supervised practice time, and interactive technique clinics, the 2007 Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium offers a variety of presentations, lectures, and master classes. Tuition includes admission to all Symposium events and all Festival concerts.


Come, listen and learn how to diagnose and solve technical problems seeing Edna Golandsky work with Institute participants in her public presentations

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Paul Roberts argues for the unique qualities of Impressionist piano music and explains why it is so central to his musical outlook. This lecture/recital will suggest that an appreciation of Impressionism will enhance understanding of both the wider piano repertoire and the skills that are essential to its performance.

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Special Guest Presenter

In a distinctive sense, the piano sonata is the genre in which Beethoven consistently explores new directions. Like a diary spanning close to thirty years, Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas record some of his most intimate utterances as well as some of his most grandiose imaginings. The six final sonatas, Opp. 90, 101, 106, 109, 110, and 111, are usually grouped among the works of his so-called late style. Compared to the earlier sonatas, these late sonatas are more multifarious than ever, but with some distinct (and sometimes extreme) preoccupations: one hears a return to the past (e.g. a renewed emphasis on fugue); an enhanced sense of vocality; elemental effects that seem to lay bare the materials of music; meditative effects that verge on ecstatic states; temporal juxtapositions that change the way that music can be about time. Along with these prodigious effects, one also encounters vulgar humor and unabashed dissonance. We will listen for all these things and more as we ponder this famously challenging music.

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Special Guest Presenter

This summer the Golandsky Institute will incorporate a series of clinics for jazz pianists and pianists interested in applying Taubman/Golandsky principles to jazz. Excerpts from transcribed solos by Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and others will be discussed, as well as the application of Taubman/Golandsky principles to improvisation. Faculty member Kendall Feeney has designed this exciting series of technique clinics.

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Exciting new music is being composed for the piano in the 21st century. Lowell Liebermann's dynamic writing emphasizes vitality, lyricism and an evocative use of the instrument's sonorities. Presented by John Bloomfield, Golandsky Institute faculty chair.

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Faculty member Robert Durso will be taking the most difficult passages from Schumann's Carnaval and offering technical solutions based on the Taubman Approach. Attendance limited to Level 3 participants

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Faculty member Mary Moran will present the latest in the Golandsky Institute Children's Technique series, "Beginning Lessons in the Taubman Approach", which discusses rotation and the in and out movements.

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Father Sean Duggan will look at the fifteen Sinfonias (Three-Part Inventions) with regard to teaching and performing issues, followed by a complete performance.

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