by Madeline Bruser | May 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
I once zoomed in on Peter Serkin’s hands with binoculars from the balcony of Carnegie Hall. He was playing an extremely virtuosic contemporary piece that had his hands running all over the keyboard. As usual in watching any great instrumentalist, I sat there stunned...
by Madeline Bruser | Apr 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
My student Marina cheered me up so much at her lesson last week. She’s been living with a practice related injury for at least 20 years, and now, after working with me for a few months, she’s having an amazing breakthrough. To recover from the injury, Marina has had...
by Madeline Bruser | Apr 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
I recently posted a video on Facebook that brought many comments – people couldn’t understand how this pianist was playing with so much freedom and fluidity with so little body movement. The pianist in the video is me, 35 years ago. And although I understand how I...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
by Francesca Leo Attending the Art of Practicing Institute’s summer program last year was a completely transformative experience. Prior to this program, I had recently graduated with my master’s degree in classical flute performance during a global pandemic, I was...
by Madeline Bruser | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Thursday night I attended a livestream performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra, featuring the Piano Concerto in One Movement by Florence Price, a brilliant Black composer whose works were “historically erased” for decades. Written in 1934, the score of this...
by Madeline Bruser | Sep 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
My student Seth plays lead guitar in the Avett Brothers—a band that has often performed for audiences of 20,000 or 30,000 people. He came to me because he wanted to learn how to play Mozart. Seth already had experience playing the piano, and in his few months of...
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