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Casio Workshop for Piano Teachers, Part 2

Casio Workshop for Piano Teachers

Sunday 27 September
The Warehouse in Waterloo
Buy Tickets: https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/casio-workshop-for-piano-teachers

Join us for an exciting day of workshops, presentations and discussion with fellow piano teachers. You can read a review of last year’s event [here].

Casio: Product Demonstration of the latest digital pianos. Teachers may acquire an instrument on a free loan for evaluation purposes. Sign up on the day with Casio.
http://www.casio.co.uk

All That Jazz: Composer Heather Hammond delivers a session on jazz music for young pianists. There are many books available of Heather’s popular music for young instrumentalists. These include collections for piano, clarinet, saxophone and flute at various grades all published exclusively by Kevin Mayhew Publishers. The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Trinity Guildhall and London College have all included Heather’s pieces in their exam syllabuses. Heather also plays electronic keyboard and often writes pieces for the Yamaha Keyboard Club magazine. Pieces used during the session will be available in advance for you to preview.
http://www.heather-hammond.co.uk/styled/

Yohondo: A presentation on the use of technology in piano lessons. Yohondo for iPad is the fun, bite size way to learn your piano pieces. For the classics and for the ABRSM piano exams.
http://www.yohondo.co.uk

Drusilla Redman presents a Posture Clinic with guidance on how to check your students’ posture. Drusilla will also address the issue of Performance Anxiety and Tension.

Rosa Conrad: Rosa is a London-based composer with a wide range of repertoire for piano including duets and solo pieces, and is passionate about the early stages of music learning. Rosa will be leading a duet and creative ensemble workshop at the event. Explore how to get your beginner students engaged with harmony right from the start, through enjoyable activities which create a sense of ownership of the piece and a deeper understanding of music.

Rosa will be demonstrating from her duet books and the first book in the ‘Fun Games and Party Pieces’ series. She will show how the creative techniques outlined in this series can be applied to any piece the student plays, and at any level of study. Audience participation encouraged!
[Sample Solo Piece] [Sample Duets]
http://rosaconrad.com/

CLIC Sargent: Helen Lye will be talking about Practice-a-thon, CLIC Sargent’s UK-wide fundraising campaign for young musicians. CLIC Sargent encourages schools, youth clubs and groups across the UK to hold their own event and raise money for young cancer patients. Students are sponsored to practice their musical instrument, arrange a concert or organise a music marathon!
http://www.clicsargent.org.uk/

SoleMate Piano Footstool: Naomi O’Brien will be demoing her great new product and these will be on sale at a discounted rate for attendees on the day. SoleMate is a revolutionary footstool that helps children achieve the correct posture when playing the piano.
http://www.neverboreddesign.com/solemate-2

Please note lunch is not included but there are several nearby establishments or you may bring your own lunch. Tea and coffee is provided.

Help Fund a Haydn Plaque in London

Many of our students are learning pieces by Haydn at the moment, particularly students working on Grade 4 ABRSM Piano Exams. Hannah will be playing a Haydn piece on the Kirckman Harpsichord at the Horniman Museum and Gardens on Sunday 16 November as part of the Dulwich Piano Festival harpsichord competition. Haydn’s music and influence are still all around us and a Blue Plaque in Soho would be a fitting tribute to this great composer. You can donate as little as £1 towards commissioning a blue plaque for Haydn. This is an independent project by the Haydn Society and will be funded through Kickstarter. Donate now!

The Haydn Society of Great Britain is putting up the first commemorative plaque in London to the composer Franz Joseph Haydn.

There have been a number of attempts over the past fifty years to put up a plaque to Haydn in London but none has succeeded, perhaps because there are no original buildings left with which he is associated. However, the Haydn Society of Great Britainhas been granted permission to put a plaque on the building occupying the site of 18, Great Pulteney Street in Soho.

We know from Haydn’s letters and diaries that he lived in a house on this spot when he first arrived in 1791, in rooms arranged for him by his promoter, Salomon. We also know he found 18th-century Soho very noisy, just as it still is today! But don’t just take our word for it – below is part of a BBC documentary on Haydn from 2009 presented by Charles Hazlewood.

It’s hard to over-estimate the importance of Haydn to the development of classical music. Often referred to as “the Father of the Symphony” for the contribution he made to the development of that genre, ‘Papa’ Haydn is equally remembered for his influence on the development of the string quartet. Haydn’s music forms the the foundations on which Mozart and Beethoven built their greatest work. Here’s a 2011 BBC documentary on the development of the symphony, which starts with Haydn and his visit to London, ‘the first ever bona-fide musical superstar’

The Haydn Society will commission a plaque from Ned Heywood MBE, a respected manufacturer responsible for many similar plaques across London (and all the square plaques in the City of London). We have discussed the design at great length and arrived at the following which is in keeping with guidelines suggested by English Heritage(though this plaque will not be an EH-affiliated memorial) and in common with the majority of comparable plaques in London. It will look something like this:

We are doing this independently of any official plaque scheme and so we need to raise all the money ourselves. This will be the first permanent commemoration of Haydn’s presence in London and his huge contribution to the cultural life of the city. The original subscribers to his Hanover Square Rooms concerts were attracted equally by his reputation and his musical genius – we want to acknowledge both of these in a lasting memorial. We invite you to help us make it a reality.

Discover more about the project here.

Hear it Live! at the Horniman Museum & Gardens

From the Horniman‘s web site:

As part of our new At Home With Music display, we are hosting a live performance on our 1772 Kirckman harpsichord in the Music Gallery on the last Tuesday of each month.

On Tuesday 30 September, Lorraine Liyanage will perform selected pieces.

Lorraine Liyanage

J.S. Bach – Allemande from French Suite no.4
Sweelinck – Ballo del Granduca
J.S. Bach – Gigue from French Suite no.5
Graham Lynch – Ay!
Soler – Sonata no.7 in C major

Lorraine Liyanage is a harpsichord based in East Dulwich. She will perform the UK premiere of Graham Lynch’s piece Ay! for solo harpsichord. ‘Ay!’ being a declamation of pain or sorrow that appears in some of the early poems of Lorca. The piece is a fusion of a tango rhythms with modal Spanish melodic lines and harmonies.

http://about.me/harpsichord

http://grahamlynch.eu/