EKU Piano Pedagogy

01/20/2020

Great workshop!

This year's Conference will feature Frederic Chiu who will perform a program titled "Classical Smackdown." Members of the audience will be provided a ballot to choose their favorite composer/composition from four different performance rounds. This event will be at 7:00 pm on Friday, February 7, 2020. There are no fees to attend, but we ask you to register at https://www.nku.edu/academics/sota/music/prospective/piano.html ,

Classical Smackdown Program 1
Sergei Prokofiev vs. Claude Debussy

Round 1

Debussy Suite Bergamasque (1890-1905)
(1862-1918) Prelude
Menuet
Clair de Lune
Passepied

Prokofiev Three Pieces from Romeo and Juliet (1935)
(1891-1953) The Montagues and the Capulets
Friar Laurence
Public Merrymaking (arr. F.Chiu)

Round 2

Prokofiev Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Opus 28 (1917)

Debussy L’isle joyeuse (1904)

intermission

Round 3

Prokofiev Sarcasm #1 (1912)
Two Fugitive Visions (1915-17)
Diabolic Suggestions (1908)

Debussy Cloches à travers les feuilles (Bells
through the leaves) from Images (1907)

Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the rain)
from Estampes (1903)

Round 4

Debussy Rêverie (1890)

Prokofiev Toccata (1912)

Representative: Maria Guralnik, Sky Top Group (www.fredericchiu.com)

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This is good information for our pedagogy students!

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This is good for our pedagogy students to read!

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05/05/2019

Our three pedagogy master’s students performed beautifully today!!

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The importance of music.....thanks to Keep Music Alive for sharing.....

05/03/2019

EKU Pedagogy class recital with their students.

04/29/2019

We all have these beginners....

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04/27/2019

Congratulations to Sydney Doll, who will be playing her junior piano recital today!

04/16/2019

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04/15/2019

Congratulations to Dr. Donald Alfano for his Clavier article on the Short Preludes by Bach. Dr. Alfano and I went to the Cleveland Institute together in the late 80’s.

Do you teach Bach's short preludes? Check out this article from 2014 in which Donald Alfano discusses a sequential approach to these often-overlooked teaching gems.

https://claviercompanion.com/article-details/learning-bach-s-short-preludes-a-sequential-approach