2025 Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium
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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: June 20, 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. The referees must be a FIRST-TIME Symposium attendee.
SATURDAY | SUNDAY |
| 9:00 AM Being Connected! Robert Durso All the work we do has to be built on this essential principle. This talk will show how to help connect someone whether in person or online. 9:30 AM Using Rotation to Absorb Distance in Wide Passages with 5 – 2 – 1 John Bloomfield Passages with big distances often provoke stretching. John Bloomfield will illustrate a fool-proof way to handle this type of figuration in different contexts. 10:15 AM Technique Clinics 11:15 AM Exploring and Expressing Descending Passages in Mozart Mary Moran Mary Moran will examine scalar passages from several Mozart sonatas, discussing the expressive and technical needs of these musical mosaics built from scales, trills, and turns. 11:45 AM The Thumb, Part 2 John Bloomfield Building on his previous presentation about the thumb, John Bloomfield will continue to discuss its multifaceted roles at the keyboard with examples from the repertoire. To bring you up to speed, Part 1 will be made available for viewing before the start of the Symposium. 12:15 PM Lunch/Resource Group Are you new to the Taubman Approach? Retraining due to limitations or injury? Curious to know more about the Taubman Approach? Come to the Resource Group meeting to interact with other participants and two experienced Taubman teachers! This is an open forum to discuss anything on your mind. These sessions are not recorded. 1:15 PM Master Class 2:15 PM Ask Edna A Question and Get An Answer Edna Golandsky Edna Golandsky will answer questions in any of the following categories:
3:15 PM Master Class 4:15 PM Pedagogy Workshop Mary Moran Mary Moran will work with young students of participants in the Symposium.
| 9:00 AM Managing Crossings That Are Far Away from the Body John Bloomfield Crossings near the extreme ends of the instrument can be a challenge for both intermediate and advanced pianists. John Bloomfield will show why they can be tricky and give straightforward guidelines to make them successful. 9:30 AM Reframing “How long will it take to retrain?” How you can help yourself through the retraining process. Therese Milanovic Replacing physical habits of many years with a new technique doesn’t happen overnight, and understandably there can be concerns over how much time is required. Therese Milanovic explores how you can take an active role in the retraining journey, making the experience easier and faster for you, your teacher, and those who are supporting you through this time. 10:15 AM Technique Clinics 11:15 AM The Intersection of Interdependence and Grouping in Organizing Chordal Textures Mary Moran Understanding how to organize and relate your hands in passages with chords simplifies situations that could be hectic and insecure. Mary Moran will guide you through textures by Brahms, Debussy and Rachmaninoff among others. 11:45 AM Gigue from Bach's B-flat Major Partita Yoriko Fieleke Yoriko Fieleke explores the lively Gigue from Bach's B-flat Major Partita with smart fingering strategies, effective coordination for crossing hands, and tools to navigate distances and balancing the tones for musical line. 12:15 PM Lunch/Resource Group Are you new to the Taubman Approach? Retraining due to limitations or injury? Curious to know more about the Taubman Approach? Come to the Resource Group meeting to interact with other participants and two experienced Taubman teachers! This is an open forum to discuss anything on your mind. These sessions are not recorded. 1:15 PM Master Class 2:15 PM Frédéric Chopin: Impromptu No.3 in G-flat Major, Op.51 Robert Durso Robert Durso will demonstrate how the Taubman Approach merges technical and musical elements! Find out how many elements this beautiful piece contains and how accessible it is for the Intermediate to Advanced pianist. 3:15 PM Master Class 4:15 PM Pedagogy Workshop Mary Moran Mary Moran will work with young students of participants in the Symposium. |
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).
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.
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.
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.
Yoriko Fieleke
Master Level Faculty
Yoriko Fieleke has performed throughout the United States and has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the International Young Keyboard Artist Competition. As a winner of the Music from Oberlin and Arthur Dann competition, she performed in two week-long concert tours sponsored by Oberlin Conservatory, where she obtained her Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance. Her performances have been broadcast by WQXR in New York City, Chicago, and Hawaii.
Therese Milanovic
Master Level Associate Faculty
Therese is a passionate performer, educator, and advocate for musicians’ health. After nearly ten years of debilitating playing-related injuries, studying the Taubman Approach with Edna Golandsky and also John Bloomfield has offered her the possibility of pursuing her pathway in music to the fullest. Deeply studying and disseminating this body of knowledge has become her life’s work, not only for herself, but in bringing the Taubman Approach to Australia and developing the next generation of expert Taubman teachers. This will be the focus of her presentation at the forthcoming Golandsky Institute Virtual Summer Symposium.
