Pianist-teacher employs unconventional methods
2008-11-20
Daily Gazette
Schenectady, NY
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Unlike most concert pianists with international careers, Frederic Chiu is committed to teaching, but not in the usual sense. Rather than have a
From the New York Times, by Allen Kozinn
... Deeper Piano Studies ... has less to do with hitting the keys than with conceptualizing.
It includes games meant to sharpen the memory (participants are blindfolded and asked to describe the