Is your piano teacher FAMOUS?

[pianistimo]

i think carl looks better.  he's smiling.  besides, i'm not really into sting and couldn't see what people find sexy in him since he doesn't play classical piano (does he?).  sexy to me means something totally different than to most people.  ok.  as mentioned before - i like carl's politeness and carefulness to be appropriate in everything he does.  he doesn't swear and is organized, thinks out what he's going to say, answers all questions really well, and plays fantastically. i mean, if he dressed for the lesson with his shirt unbuttoned to his belly - i don't really think i could handle that.  i'd have to shut my eyes and think 'oh, no... i can't handle this.'  it's just blind infatuation.  i'm very happy with my husband.  pianists shouldn't get involved anyway - because they would fight over the piano, and disagree on interpretations and things.  i can tell my husband what to think about piano performers and he usually agrees with me (if i can explain my views).  so we agree and go home happy from the concert agreeing on things.  i try to take his side of the ball games.

*crosses toe over the line very slowly and carefully when not looking takes a strand of hair.  (preferrably not from the top).  brings scissors in pocket the next time to get a lock.  he has nice piano hands, too.  walks with a slightly 'glen gould' inward right toe turning on occasion - i think it's from moving pianos on and off stage too much.

[zheer]

Thats haw i feel about Helen.

[pianistimo]

that's your new teacher, i take it.  not the one that was suggesting practicing in syncopated rhythms.  tell us more about helen.  she's not anything like the first teacher, i take it.  (the one that after four years of lessons, you found out she really played the oboe or something)?

[zheer]

No my new piano teacher is not good looking she is old enough to be my mother.
Helen Grimud, the famous pianist.

[pianistimo]

i wouldn't try anything with her.  you know she raises wolves?

[danyal]

You know, I would say if my teacher is or isnt famous... if I had a teacher. Its driving me nuts. The person who was my teacher yesterday is pretty famous in this country. Hmmm... the more I think about it, the more it sinks in... I should probably have stopped floating in this teacherless state of euphoria by tommorow... or at most the end of the week.

[crazy for ivan moravec]

Yes Freddy Kempf is one of my favourite pianists. I saw him do an amazing recital last year (Appassionata, Pics at an exhibition) and saw him play Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto and he did a chamber recital (Brahms's quintet in F minor) both last week- all really enjoyable, more so the chamber music recital though because it was more intimate and such a lovely piece, i must get a recording of that quintet. Anyone know it?

try to get the rubinstein and guarneri recording, 1966 i think. great recording! the brahms quintet is included in my recital this coming april! my string players are great, i love rehearsing it with them!

[crazy for ivan moravec]

Emilio Del Rosario

wow. i know he's quite famous as a pedagogue. does he perform still? how is his playing? i haven't heard him play yet. small world, we are of the same nationality.

[cfortunato]

My old piano teachers were Sigi Stadermann and Gregory Haimovsky, both of whom did some stuff.  Gregory, in particular, made some major noise in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe playing Messaien and Debussy before emigrating to the US, but never acchieved success here.  Last I heard, he was teaching at NYU.

[lilypiano]

my teacher took from Jane Bastian as a kid, but she's not famous herself

[mike_lang]

He plays Mozart K413, 414, and 415 with string quartet in two weeks in Evanston.  He's 72 years old, and he's still teaching a full schedule - I'm not sure how he finds time to practice.

wow. i know he's quite famous as a pedagogue. does he perform still? how is his playing? i haven't heard him play yet. small world, we are of the same nationality.

[bon_bear]

 
Rofl...*claps claps* Hillarious. lol hehehe~
I totally see the similarities. lol...

Elizabear~

U peeps are some lucky bunch to have famous pianists teaching u...

[penguinlover]

Well, my high school piano teacher wasn't famous, although he was an awesome pianist.  He taught in our local high school as well as privately.  He could trace his "teaching ancestory" back to Beethoven, I thought that was pretty interesting.  So, although I don't live up to that standard of musicianship, I am six 'teaching generations" from Beethoven.  That's pretty famous!

[elevateme]

DAVID MURRAY DAVID MURRAY!!!

he went to royal college & studied with david helfgott AND julian lloyd-webber and he is the best teacher on the planet (in my opinion) so so so good & really friendly

he recently performed stravinsky wind concerto with northern sinfonia (the orchestra that will accompany the young musician of the year final), hes done rach 2 twice and rachpag, and plenty of others but those are the big ones.

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I'm sure franzliszt2 will agree...

[franzliszt2]

Cerainly David Murray is amazing!!

He studied with bernard roberts, and he seen David helfgot rehearsing Rach 3 with the orchestra!!! Aparently the film shine is HUGLY OVERTHE TOP!! he said he used to grunt and stamp his feet

[bach_ko]

i found that this topic is quite stupid to me and not meaningful at all....
does it means that having a famous teacher will giving you such improvement even if u dun practice? that's no different with learning by yourself, maybe it would be better a little bit... a lot of my friends in my music university like to compare their piano teacher with other lecturers, and some of them think that under a famous teacher your performing skill well be improved in short time... well, my piano teache is a marvelous pianist and i love her teaching, but i still have some technical problem in playing some romantic's works, and the projection, tone quality need to work on it... besides that, some of the famous pianist just good in performing i think? they have never pass the process of struggling in learning, so they didn't know what's the correct way to use in master the performing skill... they are genius... but don't have much of experience in training student, unless they are famous in teaching as well...

[penguinlover]

Then why did you read through all sixty five posts?!!

[bach_ko]

Then why did you read through all sixty five posts?!!

haha, i didn't say that... i just reply after i seen the title...

[penguinlover]

OK, got me there!  Sorry

[pizno]

Emilio Del Rosario

Please tell me what studying with him is like!  I am 50 years old and missed the opportunity to study with him as a teenager when I lived in the area.  I still wish I had, but wasn't sure I was a serious enough student.  I've thought about taking trips to the Chicago area to take some lessons with him, if it were possible.  What is he like as a teacher?