Coaching for Pianists and Performing Musicians - one (1) 60-minute session

One (1) 60-minute coaching session with Stephen, to be held either in-person at Stephen’s studio or online via Zoom.

Get university-level education on a wide variety of musical skills, concepts, and topics to help advance your own performing, learning, teaching, and knowledge.

Sessions could focus on:

• A lesson on specific pieces

• Building and understanding technique

• Advice on how to effectively teach pieces, styles, techniques, etc.

• Mock auditions/performances with feedback

• Music theory knowledge and skills

• Aural skills/ear training

• Guidance in exploring new repertoire

• Accompanying skills

• Improvisation in various styles

• Playing by ear, making up accompaniments

• Coaching duos and chamber groups

• Deep dive into composers, style eras, music history, culture and meaning of music

• How to play from chord symbols (aka lead sheets or fake books)

• How to realize figured bass

• Score reading and transposing

• Reading open choral scores

• Advanced rhythmic skills (complex meters, polyrhythms, free notation, etc.)

• Other topics