Pedagogy · Aug 2025

A Decade at the Piano Bench

A piano teacher and student at a grand piano

I taught privately for a decade and served on the piano faculty at the Franklin School for the Performing Arts from 2014 through 2017. The studio and the school asked for the same thing: attention, one student at a time.

A good lesson is mostly listening. Where the hand tightens. Where the phrase rushes. The correction that lasts is the one a student can hear for themselves the next time they sit down.