Your dream teacher

[zheer]

Who would he or she be ?

[etudes]

Cziffra,Hamelin,Liszt,Chopin

[pianistimo]

jenni r and i, and now tash already had/have a dream teacher.  you just try to avoid eye contact and do everything they say.  and, then, still act stupid.  it's very hard to have a teacher who is good looking and plays well.  you just have to hold your heart inside your chest and count numbers or get really focused (squinting helps).

[thalbergmad]

Removed image.

Thought better of it.

[kreso]

HEINRICH   NEUHAUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tash]

yes the good-looking hot accented who can teach well teacher is quite good, though i must say i probably won't be continuing with him next year because i think i want this other cool russian woman near uni thus easy to fit into uni timetable and she teaches heaps of other uni students so knows how my whole prac assessment thing works PLUS she's a bril teacher- i'm having a lesson with her this arvo!

so along with the whole incredibly hot thing, someone who can give results and give good explanations as to why they're telling me something, and not give subjective comments on how much they love a piece because that's use less to me. yes, provided they can convince me they know exactly what they're talking about and how to get me to reach my highest potential piano-playing talent with limited screwing around i will be exceptionally happy!

[rc]

...I wonder what kind of image would make Thalbergmad think twice about? Must've been a good one

I don't think I'd want a fox to be teaching me piano. Poor lady wouldn't be able to focus and I'd learn nothing.

I'm more concerned with becoming the dream student, be able to learn something from anybody.

[quantum]

...my own abilities in observation and analysis. 

[Bob]

Someone who can help me make progress.  Not through making demands, but by explainging why I need to practice things a certain.

Someone who can convince me of their ideas.

Someone who can help me achieve the next level of playing -- or improve things in my playing and guide my musical development.  I really doesn't matter if they can play like a god.  It's whether I can make progress.

Someone with background knowledge and skills -- things I can pick up and learn.

Someone who is patient and listens and gives good lessons. 

Someone who can help me achieve my long term goals.


I have not met the ideal teacher.  I have done a huge amount of searching.  There are people you can learn a lot from, but I haven't found one person who is "perfect" or "complete" as a teacher.  Maybe it's just me.  I think teaching is so broad of an area that it's practically impossible to be extremely good at all the different aspects of it -- I mean, it's even hard just to define what "teaching" is to begin with.

[apion]

My dream teacher:

Beethoven's father.   I like it when my wrists and fingers are slapped bloody. 

[Jacey1973]

 

[thalbergmad]

...I wonder what kind of image would make Thalbergmad think twice about? Must've been a good one

It was a beautiful blond in an extremely short black dress sitting on a piano stool.

[applelover]

someone who will play some great sound pieces for me occasionally, and inspire to me to play more piano

[da jake]

My current teacher is the best I could ever have hoped for.

[contrapunctus]

Ikeman or Himmler

[zheer]

I think it would be cool to have Rachmaninoff teaching you piano.

[m1469]

Generally, somebody I cannot fool.  And whom I would not be able to put anything past their doing, however, I would trust him/her.

I think this is a really good point here :

I'm more concerned with becoming the dream student, be able to learn something from anybody.

Being the dream student helps to make the dream teacher the most effective s/he can be.


m1469 

[presto agitato]

Mendelssohn and Keith Jarrett

[rc]

It was a beautiful blond in an extremely short black dress sitting on a piano stool.

You have my permission.

[bonbonbon]

Heinrich Neuhaus

[Dazzer]

one who can bring out the best in me.

hopefully that hasn't happened yet.

[invictus]

Cziffra+Horowitz+Hamelin with lots of hot babe ingredients = my dream teacher

[rohansahai]

Leschetzky

[pianistimo]

from what i've read about him - he WAS a great teacher.  innovative.

[rohansahai]

Absolutely ! There are names much bigger than him, when it comes to the piano ...the great composers themselves ..Beethoven, Mozart, Rach ....... but, what one should keep in mind is that they were geniuses ! And genuises are rarely good teachers (because they unconsciously expect theit students to be geniuses too !

[crazy for ivan moravec]

someone like bernhard (or better yet, bernhard himself), and LIFE!

[happyscottyboy]

Maybe Martin Jones would do!    He's done tons of performances in the UK, and all the piano recordings for ABRSM in the past years. I like his style very much too!

[princessdecadence]

Lizst - he's very good looking.  Argh, don't mind me.

[rc]

Lizst - he's very good looking.  Argh, don't mind me.

 

[zheer]

Lizst - he's very good looking.  Argh, don't mind me.

 
   Yeah look at that face.

[princessdecadence]

*gasp* he looks demented! That's not fair.  Here's the Liszt:

[rc]

A more recent picture:



 

[etudes]

A more recent picture:



 

still look better than me!

[rc]

still look better than me!

Yeah, 120 years dead and still a better pianist than I am.

[princessdecadence]

A more recent picture:



 

Haha okay okay I get it, he's quite skeletal now.  Not really a necrophiliac.

[BoliverAllmon]

and why not?

[princessdecadence]

Don't really find a lot of dead people attractive, the handsome ones are all still living. 

[countchocula]

Hmmmm..........
OK - a Female:
Franzina von Rachmanilisztoven with big gazzongas and great octaves!



Well, you did say DREAM teacher   

[rc]

Hmmmm..........
OK - a Female:
Franzina von Rachmanilisztoven with big gazzongas and great octaves!



Well, you did say DREAM teacher   

...Would she have the combined facial features of all those composers? You might need to bring a paper bag to lessons.

Big gazzongas is a nice touch though, I like that.

[I Love Xenakis]

My dream teacher would have a 15 inch weinor and want sex as payment.

[stevie]

My dream teacher would have a 15 inch weinor and want sex as payment.

martha argerich?

[moi69]

What's "weinor"? i don't speak english very well. Cortot is a dream teacher, or Yvonne Lefébure. u musn't know her, she was Cortot's studient, and a great pianist, and an exelletn teacher! There's a great DVD about her, but in france only! She was wonderful!

[thorn]

Liszt, Cortot or Debussy, I think.

Cortot for basic technique, Liszt for advanced technique and Debussy for expression and personality (heard many a story about lessons with Debussy)

[gonzalo]

BERNHARD!!!!   HE would be my dream teacher

[moi69]

Debussy is said not to be a good pianist! he hasn't got a good technique and was not able to play well is own pieces! marbe he isn't a good teacher;

[thorn]

Debussy is said not to be a good pianist! he hasn't got a good technique and was not able to play well is own pieces! marbe he isn't a good teacher;

You're thinking of Ravel. Debussy was a great pianist- before his composing success, many thought he would become a concert pianist.