FREE WORKSHOP FOR PIANO TEACHERS
Solving tricky passages before the student stumbles
Every piano piece has a passage that could cause a slip. Teachers sent in the passages their students stumble on, and in this two-part workshop Anthony van den Broek shows what the technical issue is in each one, and how to solve it, for greater security, accuracy and brilliance in the playing.
PART 1
Part 1 · Burgmüller, Shostakovich, Grieg and Chopin · 1 hr 7 min
Download the handout of all 27 passages →PART 2
Part 2 · Coordination, polyrhythms and octaves · 1 hr 7 min
Download the handout of all 27 passages →More for piano teachers
FREE GUIDE · SEVEN PAGES
From Good to Outstanding: The Ten-Minute Check That Turns a B into an A
Many exam results sit between B and B+. The playing behind them is rather good with notes and rhythms mostly secure. What holds the grade back is some kind of unevenness. This guide helps you diagnose exactly what this unevenness is, and what to do immediately to lift a student’s result from good to outstanding.
FOUNDING COHORT · STARTS 1 MARCH 2027 · 45 PLACES
Piano Teacher Pedagogy and Practice: 10-Week Course
You were taught to play. But who taught you to teach? This course bridges the gap between playing well and teaching well. It shows how students learn, and how to teach different students at every level, ability and background, with strategies you can implement immediately. Successful completion leads to MTA(NSW) Certification and prepares you for a teaching diploma.
Endorsed by the Board of the Music Teachers’ Association of NSW
Over many years in Australian music, chairing the MTA and the Sydney Eisteddfod, founding an orchestra and building tools for music educators, I have seen the same thing again and again. The quality of a young musician’s future depends, more than anything, on the quality of their teacher. Yet private music teachers, who carry so much of that responsibility, have had remarkably few ways to learn the craft of teaching and have that expertise properly recognised.
This course changes that. It is rigorous, practical and realistic about the lives of working teachers, and it gives them a recognised pathway to grow as professionals. That is why the MTA Board is proud to enter into a strategic partnership with IMPA, and why I recommend this course to every piano teacher, whether you are starting out, mid-career or have taught for decades.
We look forward to welcoming the founding cohort into the MTA community.
Max Holzner
Chair, Music Teachers’ Association of NSW
The course
If the approach makes sense to you, it is the heart of Piano Teacher Pedagogy and Practice, the Institute's ten-week course for working piano teachers, live online from Monday 1 March 2027. The founding cohort is limited to 45 teachers.
Starts Monday 1 March 2027 · Live online