Piano Lessons: What Parents Need to Know - with Dr. J. Mitzi Kolar

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This is Part 4 of my interview with Dr. J. Mitzi Kolar, some of the topics we covered in this segment is listed below. For better audio quality, you can listen to just the audio with the audio player or download the audio file. 

In Part 1 we talked about the development of the piano pedagogy field and Dr. Kolar gave some some inside look at the thought process that goes into writing a piano method book. In Part 2 we discussed pedagogical issues in teaching Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin's music. Part 3 talks about difficulties about Rachmaninoff and Kabalevsky's pieces along with different ways to teach rubato, a secret to concert pianist's playing, and why method books include lyrics in their pieces. 

Sorry for the blurry video again...

Here are some of the topics we covered in the fourth part of the interview:

• How piano students have changed in the last four decades
  
• Challenges facing today's piano students
  
• Ways to keep a student's concentration and focus during a piano lesson
• Debated view Dr. Kolar has on a misconception about piano lessons
• An important realization parents need to have about piano lessons
• Discouraging statistic Dr. Kolar learned from one of her student's thesis about piano teachers
• One of my own biggest revelations about piano teaching
• Dr. Kolar's music library essentials on repertoire guides
• Library essentials on teaching

Like this interview? Learned something? Let us know in the comments!

Piano Repertoire Guide Resource Recommendations:

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire by Maurice Hinson

Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature by Jane Magrath

Piano Repertoire Guide: Intermediate and Advanced Literature by Cathy Albergo and Reed Alexander

Piano Teaching Resource Recommendations:

Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction by Robert Duke

The Process of Education by Jerome Bruner

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