Advanced Piano

This course provides piano students with continuing instruction on an advanced level. Coursework is designed for students who have an extensive piano experience and need to enhance their performance skills, expand their knowledge of repertoire, and acquire further keyboard proficiency. The study will be conducted by exposing the students to the analysis and interpretation of selected pieces in order to develop technical mastery along with repertoire awareness in terms of interpretation and expressivity. Along with the study of the instrument, the students will be given research assignments linked to composers and to the musical languages studied for a deeper contextualization of music education in a different culture. The course will provide the students with the opportunity to be in contact with Florence’s musical resources and venues, and to appreciate and understand the role and position of the professional performer in society. This course requires a placement audition.