Category: Playing for ballet class

One of the hardest things for new ballet pianists to know is what sort of music you want. Talk about your favourite songs, ballets, composers, film music and singers with…

Pianists are music specialists, that’s why you hired them, so use this to your advantage (why buy a dog and bark yourself?). e.g. “I want something like this…how do I…

If you want the pianist to stay on for a bit at the end of class as a favour, the diplomatic way is to say to the students “We’ll do…

Find out what your pianist does best, and work with it, because there may be things they simply can’t do well – like improvisation, jazz, reading complex music at sight,…

Trying to control a class and music that is suddenly too fast or too slow can make you anxious. An anxious facial expression can often be misread, and understood as…

If you won’t need your pianist for more than five minutes, let them know. Sitting in one position for a long time is uncomfortable, and they may be glad of…