The Golandsky Institute

In this video, Senior Faculty member and Senior Director Robert Durso shares concepts and practical solutions to the challenges of learning and teaching octaves and broken octaves. Designed with teachers and students in mind, various pitfalls are discussed in the application of training these skills. Practical solutions and teaching strategies are analyzed and discussed in an effort to support learning outside of the private lesson environment.

This lecture describes how to combine the two most basic movements in piano technique, explaining how to add the in and out motion to the rotation and how to time the movements. "Fusing" these two types of motion establishes a solid basis for a free and healthy technique and makes it easy to add the remaining motions should they be missing.

John Wickelgren played the Schumann G Minor Sonata, 3rd and 4th mvts in 2010