📝 The Pianist and the Teacher

🎹 Reflections on the Art of Piano – Entry 1

Every pianist is a student. Every teacher, a translator.

And I’ve spent my life shifting between both sides of the bench.

From now on, I’ll be sharing reflections from where these roles meet — where sound becomes gesture, where knowledge meets practice, and where the art of piano playing reveals its elusive depth.

Not as a method. Not as a theory.

But as a daily exploration of the ideas, sensations, and contradictions that define what we do.

Because the truth is:

There are no easy truths in piano playing.

We’re always walking a fine line — between precision and freedom, clarity and color, pressure and release.

The piano demands compromise. But through that, it offers magic.

And speaking of magic — I often tell my students:

A pianist is like a magician. Our job is to make the listener forget that the piano is, in fact, not magical.

But like any good magician, we don’t rely on illusion alone.

We rely on precision, understanding, and trained instinct — all in service of musical imagination.

These posts will cover many things: sound, touch, motion, resistance, mechanics, intention.

Some will be practical, others poetic.

Many will seem contradictory.

Because real playing is like that. It’s not fixed — it’s alive.

More than anything, I hope this becomes a space to think, to question, and to listen differently.

Whether you’re a pianist, a teacher, a student, or just someone curious about what happens between silence and sound — welcome.

Let’s begin.

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JM | Art of Piano

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