The Golandsky Institute

Artistic Director Edna Golandsky will discuss how to diagnose and solve common technical problems in her lectures and master classes. She will demonstrate the practicality of the Taubman Approach and show how effective solutions can produce immediate results.

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

Franz Schubert died in November 1828, at the age of 31.  From December 1827 to September 1828 he composed a wealth of piano music, including the 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, the 3 Klavierstücke, D. 946, three masterpieces for four-hand piano (Fantasy in F minor, Allegro in A minor, and Rondo in A major) and his final group of three piano sonatas, in C minor, A major, and B-flat major.  We will explore issues of lyricism, tonality, and form in this uncanny music, aided by live performances of selected excerpts.

Sylvie Courvoisier, pianist and composer/improviser, will discuss how she has developed her personal vocabulary by expanding and combining the possibilities of the piano.

Harvard University Professor Christopher Hasty will present “Bar and Measure,” a workshop on the distinction between the written and the heard.

Pianist Catherine Kautsky, Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and chair of its piano department, will discuss the relationship of Schumann’s music to literature.

Learn how Schumann’s own dual personality finds its roots in German literature and most particularly in his two favorite authors, Jean-Paul Richter and E.T. A Hoffmann.  This talk will draw on fairy tales and novels from Schumann’s era and will demonstrate how Papillons and Kreisleriana are based, respectively, on Richter’s  Flegeljahre  and Hoffmann’s  Kater Murr.

Mark Love from Jacobs Music will discuss how to get the most out of your instrument.

Performance  - How to get the most out of your instrument

Inside – Why what goes inside affects what comes outside and defines quality and longevity

Attitude – What is your attitude and approach to knowledge of the instrument both internally and externally

Networking – Working with your arts and culture partners and the benefits you receive when you do

Opportunity -  The opportunities for working with manufacturers, retailers, and the benefits of doing so

Aliza Stewart will join Edna Golandsky in exploring how efficient movement is common to the Taubman Approach and the Feldenkrais Method.

John Bloomfield, Golandsky Institute faculty chair will discuss the art of pedaling and will give you tools for developing a reliable and multi-faceted pedal technique.

Robert Durso will focus on a variety of accompaniments and textures that all pianists face. The most common figures will be analyzed and solved using the Taubman Approach.

Mary Moran will illustrate how to develop technical skills (such as leaps, broken octaves, scales and arpeggios) and musical expressivity using the Taubman Approach in Sonatina repertoire.

Kendall Feeney will lead technique clinics for pianists interested in applying Taubman principles to jazz.

Marc Steiner will address issues encountered by students and teachers in the seven books of Suzuki repertoire and will address specific concerns.