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ABRSM-EPTA Piano Teachers Course Schedule

Plan for each day
10.00-11.30 Divide into four groups (Early Years, Foundations of teaching, Dip ABRSM and LRSM)
11.30–12.00 Coffee and Discussions
12.00-1.00 Presentation for all (apart from week 1)
12.30-1.00...

Frequently Asked Questions: The EPTA/ABRSM Piano Teaching Course 2019

* What is the ABRSM/EPTA Piano Teaching Course? It is a freshly designed course for piano teachers beginning in January 2019, EPTA’s...

THE ABRSM-EPTA PIANO TEACHERS’ COURSE
A series of six one day courses offering CPD, inspiration and
practical help at affordable costs for all piano teachers

Chetham’s School of Music Long Millgate Manchester M3...

‘Nordic Fire’: World Premiere Performance at Queen’s Hall Edinburgh 25 October 2018. Jane Atkins, Viola, Scottish Chamber orchestra/ Joseph Swenson


John McLeod is the Peter Pan of British composers. His extraordinary,...

CHOPIN Piano Concerto no. 1, ‘Cello Sonata
Graham Caskie, Piano
Badke Quartet
Thomas Carroll
Cadenza Music CACD 1701

A ravishingly poetic, sonically beautiful and vibrantly recorded issue. To hear Chopin’s E minor concerto in...

A Sensationally Splendid Scot who has been scandalously excluded: Discovering the music of Geraldine Mucha (1917-2012)

There is so much music waiting to be discovered and re-discovered! When thinking of neglected...

Piano Mastery with Harriette Brower and Great Pianists of the Past and Present

It is always a great pleasure to gather together with student pianists each Wednesday at Chetham’s school of...

Blossoming in the 21st century Classical Music world : Triumphs on CD and in Rachmaninov Concerto Cycles for Manchester trained young pianists

Yuanfan Yang: Watercolour (Orchid Classics ORC 100073)
Yasmin Rowe...

Golden Liszt
Vasco Dantas, Piano
KNS Classical A/043

The young multi-prize winning Portuguese pianist Vasco Dantas studied in Porto with Rosgard Lingardsson before entering the classes of Dmitri Alexeev and Niel Immelman at...

This new recording of four highly contrasted orchestral works on the Delphian label is a phenomenal achievement not only from the miraculously ever- youthful composer ( he may be in...

China tour Easter 2018

Just about to head off to Manchestr terminal three for an exciting 11-day trip to China for teaching, masterclasses, meetings and concerts. The itinerary is very...

Ronald Stevenson at 90. A lasting inspiriational legacy

Over the past few weeks a race has been on as I attempted to combine Prokofiev’s Toccata with the scherzo of his...

Ferruccio Busoni and his legacy
Erin E. Knyt
Indiana Press 2017
ISBN 976-0-253-02684-2

On reading, this freshly published scholarly and pioneering study of Busoni as composition teacher and mentor, a totally new perspective...

Just returned to Manchester after ten days of extraordinary inspiration, warmth, kindness and friendship in China: Firstly in Beijing (central middle school conservatoire) and then Shenzhen (Lang Lang Music world).
Lots...

After months of neglect, www.murraymclachlan.co.uk is now updated, with new blog posts, articles and listings of future events. See http://www.murraymclachlan.co.uk/event/index
August will see Callum, Rose, Matthew amd Murray perform...

Wonderful to pay a flying visit to The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow yesterday to support Callum (17) Rose (15) and Matthew McLachlan (16) as they performed their recitals...

FRIEDMAN ORIGINAL PIANO COMPOSITIONS
JOSEPH BANOWETZ
GRAND PIANO GP711
6 Weiner Tänze Nach Motiven Von Eduard Gärtner (1916)
4 Klavierstücke, op. 27 (1908)
Strophes op. 71 (1917)
Stimmungen op. 79 (1918)
4 Préludes op. 61 (1915)
TT: 64:22

The...

> Memories from yesterday’s recording session at RNCM in Manchester are still fresh. A fantastic day, culminating with lots of bubbly at the Midland Hotel in Manchester! Life as...

EPTA UK Corporate Members Tour Saturday 25 June at Clement Pianos in Nottingham

EPTA always brings people together. One of the greatest joys of being associated with this wonderful association...