Classical pianists often have a lot of difficulty playing the chordal style of jazz and pop music. Perhaps it's because classical piano ...
Photo of the Day
I took this picture yesterday at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto using an iPhone 6 with tilt-shift and filter added using TiltShiftGen2 ....
Opera + Hardcore Punk
Congrats to Toronto's Tapestry Opera on making the CBC Arts list of 10 artists reshaping Canada's artistic landscape for their rec...
Art Song + Dressage Riding
Dressage rider Audrey Zehnder is the backdrop for Lori Laitman's Old Tunes, as performed by soprano Natalie Mann and pianist Jeffrey Pa...
Study for Orchestra by Julia Perry
William Steinberg leading the New York Philharmonic in a poignant and energetic 1965 performance of Julia Perry's Study for Orchestra:...
Happy New Year 2016!
One of the great things about the new year is that no matter how challenging or disappointing the previous 12 months have been, the promise ...
Ask the Readers: How to Divide a Staff Accompanist Position Between Vocal and Instrumental Duties?
piano by antony griffiths on Flickr A reader recently sent in a question for the readership of the blog, which is copied below with identi...
Yevgeny Kutik on Practicing
‘Practice’ has become a very misleading word. What is practice? It took me a very long time to figure this out. As an advanced student, prac...
András Schiff's Beethoven Lecture-Recital Podcasts
Chances are you'll have some free time over the holidays, so have a listen to András Schiff's lecture recitals for all 32 Beethoven ...
On Leading Pianists
I remember Diane Lewarne once saying to singers that until you get hired by a company for an engagement, your entire musical life is essent...
The Collaborative Piano Blog is 10 Years Old!
CPB circa 2006 10 years ago, I embarked on a journey of exploration, discovery, and long nights figuring out how to format sidebars in HTML....
Daniel Gundlach Plays and Sings Janis Ian's Stars
Daniel Gundlach's recital with Lloyd Arriola last week at the Church of the Epiphany in NYC looks to be a fine indication of the rout...
Dudley Moore Plays and Sings Fauré and Schubert
I did not know that Dudley Moore had such a voice for the art song repertoire. On the program: - Fauré's setting of Verlaine's ...
Terrence Dawson on the Collaborative Arts and the Developing Musician
Vancouver-based pianist (and former colleague from my time on faculty at the University of British Columbia) Terence Dawson makes a brillian...
Help Support Oshawa Opera's Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Its Upcoming Fidelio Production
I really feel for singers entering the profession these days. The announcement that Ottawa's Opera Lyra is closing operations follows o...
Franz Liszt Was Born on This Day in 1811
204 years ago today, Franz Liszt , one of the 19th century's greatest pianists, composers, and teachers was born in the village of Dobor...
What's on Deck for the Rest of 2015
Haven't seen these Urtexts before? You're in for a treat... As is often the case with working in the arts, it's either feast or ...
Artist/Teacher Bios: A Look At Who's Doing It Right And Why
I've had a lot of subsequent input from my article on rethinking artist bios . As a followup, I wanted to look at a few artists who are ...
Rethinking the Artist Bio
The best way to write a convincing online bio is to craft it in a concise manner, with a view towards who is reading about you. Nikki Loney ...
Free Technical Requirements Charts Available for the 2015 RCM Piano Syllabus
Joy Morin over at Color In My Piano has assembled a fantastic free resource for teachers who will be using The Royal Conservatory's 201...
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