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Workshops for Piano Teachers
Wherever you are in your musical journey, our one-day events are guaranteed to refresh and inspire your playing and help you to keep going with your professional development as a piano teacher.
Sunday 13th April 2025
On Sunday 13th April we are delighted to have Garreth Brooke and Paul Harris leading our workshops, which are from 10am to 4:30pm.
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The Mozart Method: Creative Piano Teaching with Garreth Brooke
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Unconditional Teaching with Paul Harris
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Everyone CAN Sight Read with Paul Harris
The fee for the day is as follows:
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In-person attendance including tea/coffee breaks and a two course lunch: £140 (book by 6th April)
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In person attendance including tea/coffee and bring your own lunch: £125 (book by 9th April)
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Online fee £70​ (book by 13th April)​​​​​​
For members of our associate ​companies, EPTA, The Curious Piano Teachers, Practising the Piano Online Academy and ISM, there is a 15% discount.
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Following attendance on one of our workshops discounts can be claimed against either the Cert PTC or the Advanced PTC if you book in 2025. We also offer early bird discounts on these courses, with the biggest discount available until 31st March 2025 and a smaller discount available until 30th June. Find out more about our courses here.
The Mozart Method: Creative Piano Teaching​
with Garreth Brooke
Learn Mozart's childhood approach to music learning! This workshop introduces practical techniques for incorporating improvisation into piano lessons, helping students connect theory to practice.
Discover how to guide students in creating engaging variations on their exam pieces through simple modifications to melody, rhythm, harmony, and meter. Perfect for teachers of all comfort levels with improvisation.
Participate in hands-on activities and leave with confidence to enhance your teaching. Please bring a current Grade 1 book from ABRSM, Trinity, and/or MTB.
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About Garreth:
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Garreth Brooke (MA Oxon) is a pianist, composer, writer, teacher and grief companion based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Shortlisted for the 2025 Art of Piano Education Awards, Garreth's educational work focuses on creativity. He runs PianoCreativity.com and his writing has been featured in EPTA UK's Piano Professional Magazine, TopMusic Mag and on PianoDao.com.
“[Garreth is] one of the brightest upcoming voices in piano education today” — Andrew Eales, PianoDao.com
Unconditional Teaching
with Paul Harris
Paul Harris’ ground-breaking and inspirational new approach encourages teachers to explore and transform how they teach. Paul identifies and reimagines the barriers or ‘conditions’ that can stand in the way of effective teaching, to allow for the most immersive and positive learning experience. Ideas are tackled from both a practical and psychological perspective, rooted in Paul’s renowned Simultaneous Learning methodology. For teachers of all disciplines and learners of all ages, this seminal talk will begin your journey towards an unbounded, unconditional way of teaching.
Everyone CAN Sight Read!
with Paul Harris
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Do you believe that some people can sight-read and others just can’t?
In this talk, Paul will dispel this and other common misconceptions about sight-reading, presenting instead the idea of sight-reading as a technique that can be developed and learned by anyone. He breaks down the fascinating science behind sight-reading as well as providing practical advice and exercises that can be incorporated into both lessons and practice. This session will challenge existing perspectives on sight-reading and presents an innovative new approach to teaching and learning this vital musical skill.
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About Paul:
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Paul Harris is one of the UK’s most influential music educationalists. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the August Manns Prize for outstanding performance and where he now teaches. He is in great demand as a teacher, composer, and writer (he has written over 600 books); he gives the occasional recital and his inspirational masterclasses and workshops continue to influence thousands of young musicians and teachers all over the world in both the principles and practice of musical performance and education.
If you attend this workshop you can claim a discount off our 2025-26 Cert PTC or Advanced PTC course:​
£100 for in-person attendance; £50 for online attendance.
This is in addition to our early bird booking discount.
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