The Road to Chopin: From Method Book to First Chopin Pieces

Your student is dying to play the Minute Waltz or Nocturne in Eb Major, but they’re still in Book 3 of their method book! What do you do? How will you get them there? This workshop will provide teachers with an extensive list of repertoire by contemporary pedagogical composers that will help students prepare for the technical and musical challenges they will encounter in the easiest works of Chopin. Professor Clarfield will give teachers numerous practical suggestions for HOW to apply the musical and technical elements found in this preparatory repertoire to Chopin’s easier compositions. She will also provide detailed pedagogical analyses on her suggested teaching sequence of the first works of Chopin. Program will also include a teaching demonstration.

Guest Left Hand Artist: Sigrid Luther