3-day course for Advanced Pianists with Graham Fitch – WAITING LIST
This 3-day course for Advanced pianists provides a concentrated boost for those attending – to study, practise, polish and improve performance skills and experience. And at the helm leading the process is the hugely popular and inspiring Graham Fitch!
Preparing for a special performance (such as a diploma or concert) is an excellent way to provide focus and structure to your piano practice as you work towards a goal. This provides an ideal opportunity for continued professional or personal development.
On this course you can receive tuition and coaching on your own personal programme. There will also be opportunities to practise performing your programme (or selections from it) to others in a safe and supportive environment, either in the class or more informally in a small group. In addition to performance classes, there are workshops on how to prepare for performance, strategies to manages nerves, as well as a clinic where we aim to solve practice and technical issues.
Whether you are just embarking down the performance path, about to sit a diploma or simply preparing for a recital at advanced level, this course is for you.
Dedicated to those wanting to improve their performance, Graham Fitch will provide guests with a concentrated boost of study, practice and experience in performance skills.
Graham Fitch sits at a Steinway piano in a blue shirt and jeans demonstrating a piece to a student. The student stands at the piano in the background making notes. She has blonde hair, glasses and wears a daark patterned shirt.
Formal tuition takes place in workshops, performance classes and one-to-one lessons.
This course’s focuses will be:
- Performance Confidence
- Preparing for a Performance: Strategies for Structuring Your Practice
- Clinic: Solving Technical and Musical Problems in Your Pieces
As usual, everyone will have access to their own grand piano for the week including our new Steinway, and have plenty of time to practise in our vaulted piano cellar.
We’ll also have a bit of fun! We’ll enjoy a recitial-talk from Graham himself, the chance to explore the private gardens at Finchcocks and be able to go for beautiful Kentish countryside, weather permitting.
And of course, it goes without saying that you can expect the usual!
Guests will:
- Have the chance to play in and observe multiple performance masterclasses.
- Will receive a one-to-one lesson with Graham.
- Enjoy access to play on our 9 grand pianos anytime between 7am and 8pm. (There are enough pianos to go round that everyone can play a piano at any given time.)
- Have the chance to take part in a recital on the Bosendorfer in the main hall of the family home.
- Hear a presentation from Graham in the main hall on advanced repertoire, with ideas for practice and interpretation.
- Join and socialise with a group 8 fellow piano enthusiasts during lunch and dinner.
- Dine in style with lunches and three course dinners prepared by our fabulous chef.
- Experience the Finchcocks bubble, hailed as a “paradise for pianists” by BBC Music Magazine and stay in a grade 1 listed country manor.
Plus-ones are very welcome on our courses, with a room surcharge dependant on whether they are a playing or non-playing guest. Please ask for further details.
This is a unique, luxury UK-based piano gem and an experience that you won’t forget anytime soon. Many guests continue friendships made on these courses, encouraging each other on in the piano playing on Whatsapp, organising private piano meet ups further down the line… and bumping into each other again on future courses!
For booking enquiries, please contact Jenny by filling in the form below.
from £1550 (inclusive of accommodation, tuition and all food and wine)
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