The Interface Of Piano Pedagogy With The Medical Community

Members of the Cleveland Clinic, along with the Yamaha Music and Wellness Institute are working to develop the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, medically based, world-wide performance enhancement and treatment network for musicians based upon evidence-based scientific protocols. Having worked for years retraining musicians, primarily pianists, pedagogically at the instrument with multimodal biofeedback, Kathleen Riley was contacted […]

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The Use of Multimodal Feedback in Retraining Complex Technical Skills of Piano Performance

Piano students working to improve technique often practice the same passage over and over to achieve accuracy, increase speed, or perfect interpretive nuance. However, without proper skeletal alignment of hands, arms, and shoulders and balance between the muscles involved, such repetition may lead to difficulties with, rather than mastery of, technique and stylistic interpretation and […]

February 7, 2018 No Comments