All About Choosing Piano Schools And Teachers
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sacredmusicals:
You are even more thick skinned than I thought. You also have no interest at all to at modify your posts despite what some posters here have advised. Like jce told you that guildhall is not the leading, but you did not change anything. In any case, the polarising effect your posts have made is perhaps an indication that you should have thought things through and not put the blame on our 'inferior' Singapore culture. And since you are not planning to discuss anything related to mr elgar kwek's teaching methods, let me get some discussion started for the sake of this thread.
Thank you my dear :hugs:leongstella:
[quote=\"Intermezzo\"]all along i didn't get the impression that leongstella is advertising for Mr Elgar Kwek.
she's just enthusiastic about sharing. the article does talk about his teaching methods, so to me it's relevant to the topic.
Update: I really appreciate your comment. It feels good to have someone understand my point of view. Thank you!
Dreamaurora, I am under the impression that parents will not appreciate teachers taking up lesson time to show DVDs or recordings. So what is your opinion on this and how do you build up the interest in young children?[/quote]Good question, and one that has no straightforward answer. I foresee that this will be a 1000 word reply . I will post my thoughts in one or two days time. -
I am currently looking for keen and passionate students of any level up to diploma to tutor. I am now a student but has been teaching part time at various music schools. Right now I am doing this for passion and the fees charged will be at a reasonable rate.
Lessons can be either conducted at my place on a Yamaha C1 grand piano or at the student's place.
Time slots: Negotiable
Qualifications: DipABRSM performance
Below is for your reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLd8SCapnQ&feature=plcp&context=C413ba79VDvjVQa1PpcFPAOapzIgRaCk6rL_A7GAkKjIdHWbPS-a4%3D
For enquires please call 9748 4898 -
That is some awsome performance. Who is the artist? If it is you, bravo. You should pursue a performance career. Are you a Yong Siew Toh student?
If you are not the artist and just meant to let us hear the Yamaha C1, then you should clarify. Otherwise, it is a deception to falsely pass off a professional artist’s playing as yours. -
joyofmusic:
Ok what, this kind of standard quite common among the established teachers' diploma students in Singapore. When I went to Lip Tat's student concert many years back, many of his students already play stuff like Liszt's Paganini Variations and Prokofiev Toccata up to speed. Interestingly, many teachers actually evaluate a student's musicality and talent based on his/her ability to intepret slow and lyrical solo pieces. I've spoken to Fang Yuan (yup, principal of Young Talents) and she said when she judged piano competitions many of young kids nowadays could practically play anything virtuosic nowadays, so typically the judges will evaluate the slower movements or pieces instead to distinguish the contestants. In any case, if there is doubt to the authenticity of the recording, the pianist in question can always come forward to clarify and post an actual video of himself playing.That is some awsome performance. Who is the artist? If it is you, bravo. You should pursue a performance career. Are you a Yong Siew Toh student?
If you are not the artist and just meant to let us hear the Yamaha C1, then you should clarify. Otherwise, it is a deception to falsely pass off a professional artist's playing as yours.
Solo performance career is destined only for the very select few. Need combination of charisma, immense musicality and personality. Even many of the winners of the major competitions around the world realised they couldn't sustain performance career for too long and many ended up teaching in faculties around the world. -
I concur with dreamaurora about young pianists’ capabilities nowadays. But I do find the instance of the YouTube recording provided above suspicious. It sounds too clean like it was recorded in a recording studio and not at home studio. Normally can hear things like background noise but there is none totally there as far as I can tell. But this is just a hunch and for all we know he could be a sound engineer too.
And oh by the way dreamaurora, are you going to perform anytime soon? Would love to see you play. -
sacredmusicals:
I will migrate my response to you to my other thread on Q&A. Don't want to continue hicjaking this thread, haha.I concur with dreamaurora about young pianists' capabilities nowadays. But I do find the instance of the YouTube recording provided above suspicious. It sounds too clean like it was recorded in a recording studio and not at home studio. Normally can hear things like background noise but there is none totally there as far as I can tell. But this is just a hunch and for all we know he could be a sound engineer too.
And oh by the way dreamaurora, are you going to perform anytime soon? Would love to see you play.
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=27553 -
for clarification, the above audio clip was done at my home on the yamaha c1 on a blue microphones YETI mic which was purchased to record my recordings. the reason why the recording sounds so clear is due to the mic which is NOT your normal microphone. It has 2 transducers inside with a proper selection of recording modes like cardoid, stereo and omni modes. The mic was connected to an apple macbook and the audio recorded via garage band. i have the raw garage band file if any of you need clarification.
you do not need a recording studio for a clean recording. all you need is to draw the curtains and close all doors in the house.
if anyone has any questions or queries please contact me directly via sms at 97484898 thank you. -
I’m looking for a piano teacher for my 7 year old son. Currently, he’s taking the Yamaha JXC course, and due to his high level of interest in playing the piano, my husband and I think we may as well start him with individual lessons as well.
We stay in the Mountbatten area but do go to Parkway Parade / Parkway Centre frequently. Does anyone have any piano teacher you would highly recommend at any of the piano schools at Parkway Parade or Parkway Centre?
Thanks in advance! -
sugarpie2honey:
Hi - wondering - why dont u ask his JXC teacher to teach? Since she has been with him for awhile, she will know his style better?I'm looking for a piano teacher for my 7 year old son. Currently, he's taking the Yamaha JXC course, and due to his high level of interest in playing the piano, my husband and I think we may as well start him with individual lessons as well.
We stay in the Mountbatten area but do go to Parkway Parade / Parkway Centre frequently. Does anyone have any piano teacher you would highly recommend at any of the piano schools at Parkway Parade or Parkway Centre?
Thanks in advance! -
This is not the same teacher at Yamaha which he started under for JMC. He started with new teacher under JXC and no special bond really--not like with the first teacher. Due to fact that small number of students usually opt for JXC, they will need to combine students for one timing and assign teacher.
Anyway, just looking into my options and always searching for that teacher that can spur a child on to their fullest potential.
Received a name today from a parent happy with their child's progress. May call to arrange a trial in my home.
thanks!