Content Index

Practice Tools Lecture Series - An introduction to practice tools and methodologies which will make your time spent practising more enjoyable and effective.

Technique - Information on mastering areas of technique, exercises and regimes, healthy playing and injury prevention.

Learning pieces - Extensive library of study editions, video walkthroughs and other resources for repertoire of varying levels.

Scales and arpeggios - Guides for practising and improving scales and arpeggios.

Sight Reading - Collection of articles on sight reading and sample exercises at various levels.

Examination guides - Resources to assist in preparation for ABRSM and Trinity examinations.

Teaching resources - Develop your teaching skills and empower your students with resources from the Piano Teachers' Course UK.

Slow Practice

An Overview of the Practice Tools

Separate Practice

Skeleton Practice

The Practice Tools Lecture Series

Quarantine-Spots

Read Ahead - Level 1

Read Ahead - Level 3

Teaching & Developing Sight-Reading Skills

Read Ahead - Level 2

Advanced Sight-Reading Curriculum - Part 1

Read Ahead - Level 4

Advanced Sight-Reading Curriculum

Advanced Sight-Reading Curriculum - Part 2

Advanced Sight-Reading Curriculum - Part 4

The Art of Pedalling

ABRSM Grade 1 Scales & Broken Chords

Scales & Arpeggios - Basic Introduction

Intermediate Scales & Arpeggios

Elementary Technique - Fundamentals of Scales & Arpeggios

Yoga for Musicians

Healthy Piano Playing

Playing Double Notes at the Advanced Level

The Art of Piano Fingering

Technical Exercises and Regimes

The Exercises of Peter Feuchtwanger

Etudes & Studies – Czerny (Part 1)

Jailbreaking Hanon

Developing the Left Hand

Prelude in C-sharp Minor

Jacques Ibert - Little White Donkey

The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

Tarantella (No. 4 from Musiques d’enfants, Op. 65)

Sonatine

The Merry Farmer

Von fremden Ländern und Menschen

*** (Album for the Young No. 30)

Knight Rupert (Album for the Young No. 12)

Reger - Versöhnung (Reconciliation) (No. 20 from Aus der Jugendzeit, op. 17)

Arietta

Lyric Pieces

Waltz in A minor

Aria in F

Solfeggietto in C Minor

Allegro Assai (1st movement from Sonata in A major, Wq 55 no. 4)

Camidge - Scherzando (Second movement from Sonata no. 1 in G major)

Bruch - Moderato from Sechs Klavierstücke (Op. 12, No. 4)

Impromptus D899 (Op. 90)

Diabelli - Moderato Cantabile (from Sonatina in F major, Op. 168 No. 1)

Two Short Pieces

Sonatina in G

A Crash Course in Music Theory

There’s More to Playing the Piano

The Well-Tempered Clavier – Part 1

Little Prelude in F

Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major (BWV 825)

Prelude in D Minor

Invention in D Minor No. 4 (BWV 775)

Prelude in C minor (BWV 999)

Intermezzo in A Minor (Op. 76 No. 7)

Intermezzo in B minor (Op. 119 No. 1)

Intermezzo in A Major (Op. 118 No. 2)

Intermezzo in A Major (Op. 118 No. 2)

Sonatina in G - Second Movement

Sonatina in G - First Movement

Sonata Pathétique in C Minor

Für Elise

Sonata in C# Minor (Sonata quasi una fantasia)

Ecossaise in E-Flat (No. 4 from Six Ecossaises, WoO 83)

Beethoven on Board - Sonata No. 1 in F Minor

Beethoven on Board - Sonata No. 2 in A Major

Beethoven on Board - Sonata No. 3 in C Major

Fantasy in D Minor K397

Allegretto (from The London Sketchbook, K. 15hh)

Minuet in D major, K. 355

Mozart Sonata in G, K283 (1st mvt)

25 Easy and Progressive Etudes (Op. 100)

25 Easy and Progressive Etudes (Op. 100)

Nocturne in C-sharp Minor

Sostenuto in E flat

Nocturne in E-flat

Waltz in E Minor (Op. Posth.)

Prelude in B Minor (Op. 28 No. 6)

Fantasie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor (Op. 66)

Mazurka in G minor (Op. 67 No. 2)

Fantasie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor (Op. 66)

Mazurka in A minor (Op.17 No. 4)

Sonata in G Major

Allegro (from Fantasia no. 1 in D major)

Rigaudon

Elgar - Andantino (First movement from Sonatina)

Allegro molto (3rd movement from Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:50)

No. 2 from Kinderstücke (Op. 72)

Fanfarinette and La Triomphante (from Suite in A minor)

Toccata

Anyone Can Improvise!

Create First! - Part 1

A Guide to the ABRSM Syllabus (2021 - 2022)

A Guide to the ABRSM Syllabus (2018 - 2020)

A Guide to the Trinity College Piano Syllabus (2018 - 2020)

ABRSM Initial Grade - Piano Exam Pieces

ABRSM Grade 4 - Piano Exam Pieces

ABRSM Grade 5 - Piano Exam Pieces

ABRSM Grade 6 - Piano Exam Pieces

ABRSM Grade 8 - Piano Exam Pieces

ABRSM Grade 7 - Piano Exam Pieces

ABRSM Grade 1 - Piano Exam Pieces

A Guide to the Trinity College Piano Syllabus (2021 - 2023)

Preparing for an Examination

Graham Fitch, based in London, maintains an international career not only as a pianist, but also as a teacher, adjudicator, examiner, lecturer, writer and commentator on piano playing and musical subjects.

Penelope Roskell is equally renowned as a performer of international calibre and as an inspirational teacher and professor of piano at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is the author of The Complete Pianist: From Healthy Technique to Natural Artistry and is the leading UK specialist in healthy piano playing. She holds a clinic at the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine for pianists with injuries and her guide to preventing and recovering from injury is available here.

Ken Johansen is a pianist, teacher, and writer based in Baltimore, where he teaches at the Peabody Conservatory. His most recent projects include the iPad sight-reading app Read Ahead, an advanced sight-reading curriculum and the series From the Ground Up for the Online Academy.

Read Ahead is a comprehensive sight-reading curriculum based on high-quality music, carefully graded and supplemented with a wide variety of exercises to help instil the habits essential for fluent reading.

Masayuki Tayama has maintained a highly active schedule as both international recitalist and concerto soloist. Tayama’s Wigmore Hall debut early in his career was a sell-out, and he continues to appear regularly at eminent London venues, including Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cadogan Hall and St. John Smith’s Square. He has taught some of the country’s aspiring pianists as tutor at Chetham’s School of Music, and his teaching incorporates the method taught by Sumiko Mikimoto on tone production, muscle relaxation and training for pianists. In 2020, he was appointed Director of the Piano Teachers’ Course UK, the country’s leading professional development course for piano pedagogy. Tayama is also currently in the midst of a project to record Rachmaninov’s complete works for solo piano.

Forrest Kinney is a pianist, composer, and educator who has written 37 books on music and creativity, including the Pattern Play and Create First books on improvising, the Chord Play and Puzzle Play books on arranging, and the new book Music-Creativity-Joy which explores a creativity-based model of music education.

Ilga Pitkevica-Baldwin graduated from Jazepa Vitola Latvian Music Academy in Riga with honours and a Master’s degree in Solo Piano Performance, Piano Teaching, Accompaniment and Chamber Music. Ilga is a successful piano teacher with the private practice in Cambridge. Since 2014 Ilga has taught as a Principal Tutor of the internationally-acclaimed Piano Teachers’ Course UK. She also lectures in the UK and in Latvia on piano teaching, and on the history and teaching methods of the Russian Piano School.

Dedicated to helping everyone play the music they love and long to play, Lucinda Mackworth-Young has pioneered Practical Psychology for Musicians to help teachers and performers teach, learn and perform as effectively and enjoyably as possible. She has also developed a step-by-step system for learning to play by ear and improvise, so that even classically trained piano players can play spontaneously, anywhere, anytime -and say “Yes!” when asked to play Happy Birthday!

Charlotte Tomlinson, pianist, teacher, author and performance coach, has become recognised as one of the world’s leading experts in performance anxiety for musicians. She works with musicians around the world through her online courses, talks & master classes and one-to-one consultations, to help them move through unpleasant performance nerves into a free, enjoyable and inspired performing life.

Beate Toyka, from the Rhineland in Germany, was raised and trained in the heart of the German classical tradition. She is a committed performer and teacher, and active as a concerto soloist, solo recitalist, and accompanist. She appears regularly in the UK and Germany, and has toured in Africa and the Americas. As an enthusiast for duet and 8-hands playing, she formed the ‘Derby Piano Quartet’. Her teaching is characterised by a lively empathy for both the music being taught, and for the pupil. She is a valued adjudicator at music festivals. Beate is a principal tutor at the Piano Teachers’ Course, UK.

Mark Polishook, currently based in Leicester in the UK, is known internationally as a jazz pianist and a composer. He's a former director of the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University in the United States.

William Westney is recognised internationally as both a master performer and award-winning teacher. After winning the top piano prize in the Geneva International Competition, he performed to acclaim on four continents. His uniquely insightful, refreshing and empowering contributions to piano pedagogy include the innovative performance workshop The Un-Master Class® and the trailblazing book The Perfect Wrong Note (40,000 copies sold worldwide).

Sally Cathcart, PhD and Churchill Fellow, is a musician and pianist who is involved in many aspects and levels of music education. Her first love is teaching the piano and she has experience of teaching all ages and levels. She is Co-Founder and Director of The Curious Piano Teachers and is a Principal Tutor on the Piano Teachers’ Course UK.

Described by Felix Aprahamian as "the finest all-round musician I have ever known", Grimwood is more than just a pianist. His interest in historic keyboards has lead him to perform on pianos of all ages, harpsichords, virginals and organs. As a musical polymath he has written for various publications and can occasionally be found at his desk composing or performing on the viola. Author profile >>