Episode 05: Michelle Lau

Welcome to episode five of FORTE Podcast!

Michelle Lau is a Canadian Pianist, Teacher, and Content Creator for her two classical music-related YouTube channels The Open Score and 2Sharps1Flat. She does an admirable job on writing and recording educational, enlightening and also entertaining videos for classical musicians around the world!

In this episode we highlight the under discussed and very important topic of Practice and how we can learn to be more engaged with what we do at the keyboard to come out as independent and stronger musicians.

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Michelle’s content:

The Open Score: https://www.youtube.com/user/theOpenS...

2Sharps1Flat: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSF8...

Timestamps:

(00:15) Teaching piano during the pandemic

(3:31) Creating independent music students

(6:40) Therapy atmosphere in piano lessons

(9:58) Teaching Modules at Western University, Ontario

(11:27) Bringing in young students to Teaching Masterclass

(15:14) Influential pedagogical figures

(17:14) The meaning of Listening

(19:56) Differing acoustics from different areas of the concert hall

(23:01) Seeing famous musicians practise

(25:16) Being watched when practising

(26:37) First approach to a new piece of music

(32:27) Visualising music away from the piano

(36:28) Signs of ineffective practice

(39:36) Knowing your body to create good sounds

(43:26) Piano practice influencing non-music related practice

(47:26) Michelle's approach to Alfred Brendal's 'On Recitals and Programmes' essay

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