Flyer - Carlo Grante

Improve your playing October 3 and 4! a 2-day
Seminar on 6 key topics in piano practice
by international soloist and educator
CARLO GRANTE
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International soloist, connoisseur pianist, vast concert repertoire including appearances at
the Wigmore, Barbican, Musikverein, etc.
50 CDs and DVDs (Scarlatti, Mozart, Schumann, Debussy, Ravel, Busoni, Godowsky,
Flynn, Finnissy, Vlad), recording the complete Scarlatti
Professor, Campobasso Conservatory of Music, Italy; Professor and Soloist, Chetham’s
International Piano Summer School, Manchester, 2012 and 2013
Author of Fundamentals of Piano Methodology (2013) and Appunti di Studio (Key
Topics in Pianism: the Methodology applied)
Author of Carlo Grante’s Fundamentals of Learning the Piano: preparing to play
securely and well - the Methodology in brief (free to participants)
Inspirational teacher of serious pianists and teachers; believes that his Methodology can
help students AT ALL LEVELS learn and memorise faster, and play with enhanced
expression, artistry and security
WHEN: Thurs. 3rd Oct. and Fri. 4th Oct. 2013, 10am – 1pm and 2.30 – 5.30pm
WHERE: Main Hall, Riverside Arts Centre, 59 Thames Street, Sunbury, MX TW16 5QF
UK. Yamaha grand piano. Sunbury is at J1 of the M3, near Hampton Court and
Heathrow airport. Parking in Orchard Meadow car park, off The Avenue. Stay overnight
at Premier Inn, TW16 7AT or Warren Lodge, Shepperton TW17 9JZ. Buses 216 or 555
from e.g. Kingston or Walton on Thames to Lower Sunbury Village. British Rail: Sunbury
SUU is on the Shepperton line from Waterloo, 15 min. walk.
COST: £150 (£88 for single day), to include 12 hours of lectures and demonstrations. Bring
something you are working on. No obligation to play in public. Coffee and tea, and a CD
and DVD by the Maestro included for 2-day participants. Chances to discuss your music
with the maestro at lunches, breaks and on Thurs. evening at local restaurant.
CONCERT: a recital of works by Chopin and Godowsky will be given by Maestro Grante at
Riverside Arts Centre at 7.30 p.m. on Wed. 2 October. Tickets as below.
Day One topics to include: (1) “Chunking” up and down (Brahms) (2) Reductio ad unum:
learning to identify simple structures in apparently complex music (Liszt)(3) Voicing and
Tone-Production: choosing ideal sound-weight proportions (Debussy).
Day Two will focus on: (4) Mind-mapping and Memorisation (5) Using harmonic, melodic,
expressive, phraseological etc. modalities to enhance learning
(6) Improving Articulation, with Mozart as teacher.
Register by email to Helen Heslop at [email protected]. Pl post a deposit of
£20 to 1 Church St., Sunbury TW16 6RQ to reserve a place.