JUNE 28-29, 2025

Saturday-Sunday

Experience the transformative journey of piano mastery at the 2025 Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium, ONLINE from June 28 to June 29. Join a global community of musicians, spanning all skill levels and ages, united in their quest for solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges.

From the comfort of your own home, immerse yourself in a wealth of enriching sessions and resources, accessible LIVE from June 28-29 and viewable for three months post-Symposium.

Whether you're a newcomer seeking insight into longstanding obstacles, or a seasoned practitioner aiming to refine your knowledge and be a more effective teacher and/or performer, this Symposium caters to your needs.

Delve into a diverse curriculum featuring:

• Engaging presentations and lectures with trained experts and certified faculty of the Taubman Approach
   
• Masterclasses with Golandsky Institute faculty and guest artists (no extra fee to play in the masterclass--video audition required)
    
• Immersive technique clinics and problem solving sessions (submit questions and passage problems!)
   
• Personalized one-on-one guidance and interactive Q&A sessions

Symposium fee: $385 (EARLY BIRD PRICE $350 until end of day May 31, 2025)

Registration includes access to the entire Symposium (June 28-29, 2025), and access to the recorded sessions for three months post-Symposium.

Question submission deadline: May 31, 2025
Instructions for submitting questions will be sent upon registration.

Masterclass audition video deadline: May 31, 2025
Instructions for submitting the video(s) will be sent upon registration.

Refer your students and friends to the Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium and get a 10% discount on your registration!*

Refer up to two people and receive a 10% discount on your registration if one or both of your referees register. Payment of the refund will be made after June 28, 2025, after confirming your referee(s) have successfully registered.

Submit your referral information on the Symposium registration form, or if you already registered, submit the information at this form.

Video recording of the Symposium will be available to all registrants after the Symposium is finished. Please allow 1-2 weeks for the video to be available. An email notification will be sent to all registrants when they are ready. Be sure to add golandskyinstitute.org to your spam filter so you receive our emails! Videos will be available for 3 months from posting.

Cancellation Policy: The fee is refundable upon written request by May 31, 2025. No refunds shall be granted for participants whose request is received after May 31.

*Referral discount cannot be combined with other offers.

Stay tuned for details!

Edna Golandsky

Founder and Artistic Director, Leading Expert

Edna Golandsky is the leading exponent of the Taubman Approach. She has earned wide acclaim throughout the United States and abroad for her extraordinary ability to solve technical problems and for her penetrating musical insight. She received both her bachelor of music and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, following which she continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman.

Performers and students from around the world come to study, coach, and consult with Ms. Golandsky. A pedagogue of international renown, she has a long- established reputation for the expert diagnosis and treatment of problems such as fatigue, pain, and serious injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, focal dystonia, thoracic outlet syndrome, tennis and golfer’s elbow, and ganglia. She has been a featured speaker at many music medicine conferences. She is also an adjunct professor of piano at the City University of New York (CUNY).

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John Bloomfield

Co-Founder, Senior Director, Faculty Chair, Leading Expert

John Bloomfield is a Ken­tucky native and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Furman University in Greenville, S.C. An award-winning solo and chamber pianist, he has been broadcast by Public Radio in New England and has been heard on the air in New York under the auspices of Ars Viva. He earned a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and since then has been a long-term student of Dorothy Taubman and Edna Go­landsky. He has taught at Adelphi University and in the pre-college division of the Manhattan School of Music. In demand as a clinician and adjudicator around the country, he has lectured at a number of colleges and universities.

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Robert Durso

Co-Founder, Senior Director, Leading Expert

Robert Durso attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music, obtained his bachelor of music degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and received his master of music degree from Temple University. His principal teach­ers were Enrica Cavallo-Gulli, Harvey Wedeen, Edna Golandsky, Dorothy Taubman, and Rosalyn Tureck.

Mr. Durso has performed extensively, including appearances at Weill Recital Hall, the Philadelphia Ethical Society, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and in a tour of South Carolina sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. In September 2000, Mr. Durso was invited to Caracas, Venezuela, by the U.S. Embassy to present the work of Dorothy Taubman for the first time in South America.

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Mary Moran

Co-Founder, Senior Director, Leading Expert

Mary Moran has been on the adjunct faculties of Russell Sage College and Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York, teaching applied piano, music appreciation, and arranging. She has studied the Taubman Approach to Piano Performance since 1977, primarily with Edna Golandsky. She was a faculty member of the Taubman Institute of Piano from 1981 through 2002, and has been recognized for her application of this approach to children’s pedagogy. She has been invited to lecture on technical training for students and give master classes by many music teachers’ organizations in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, and at Portland State University and Williams College.

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