Sign up for Madeline's free newsletter, Performing Beyond Fear, and receive a free chapter from her book. I help pianists unlock their full potential so they can perform with freedom, confidence, and expressive power. You can learn how to do this. You can learn a way of preparing for performance that brings out the best in you onstage.
And the preparation itself can bring you a new level of joy that feeds into your performing. Before studying with Madeline I struggled for years with debilitating performance anxiety and frustration. She enabled me to recapture my earlier love for music and performing and to raise the level of my playing to an astonishing degree.
And the preparation itself can bring you a new level of joy that feeds into your performing. Before studying with Madeline I struggled for years with debilitating performance anxiety and frustration. She enabled me to recapture my earlier love for music and performing and to raise the level of my playing to an astonishing degree.
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Author of the acclaimed book The Art of Practicing, NYC-based pianist Madeline Bruser has taught musicians from Italy, Spain, England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Romania, Kosovo, Greece, Kenya, Israel, Australia, Korea, Japan, Canada, and the US, both in person and online. Committed to helping musicians release physical and mental tension, she includes mindfulness-awareness practices in her teaching to help musicians transform their playing.
Piano Lessons
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You can trust your body at the piano and continually find solutions to technical problems. Gaining real understanding about how your body works at the piano can make all the difference. You can learn to recognize and release physical tension that has been limiting your freedom at the instrument.
And when you combine this knowledge with all the work on listening, rhythmic organization, mental clarity, and heart connection, piano lessons offer a comprehensive path to expressive power in performance.No one should feel uncomfortable playing the piano. Experiencing physical energy moving freely through your body in relationship to the piano is joyful and life-giving.
And when you combine this knowledge with all the work on listening, rhythmic organization, mental clarity, and heart connection, piano lessons offer a comprehensive path to expressive power in performance.No one should feel uncomfortable playing the piano. Experiencing physical energy moving freely through your body in relationship to the piano is joyful and life-giving.
Sessions for Non-Pianists
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The first non-pianist who asked me to help him was a trombonist. I was surprised and intrigued-he was an advanced player and I didn't know what would happen, and I told him I had no knowledge of technique for his instrument. But right away, when I saw him leaning his whole body forward as he moved the slide forward, I sensed he'd play with more freedom if he stood upright instead-that this would better support his forward arm movements.
2021 Transformative Piano Master Class Series
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Do you wonder if you're missing some necessary skill that would help you get past performance anxiety? Do you feel like something is in your way that keeps you from playing the way you dream of for an audience? Visualize being able to let go of tension and self-doubt and feel more joy and expressive freedom at the piano.
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The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart is available at bookstores everywhere. You can also purchase it online. Madeline Bruser has put together a valuable and insightful look at the art of practicing. I've often thought of practice as 'playing' in the stretching, somersault, skipping, serenely special sense of the word, and The Art of Practicing reaffirms that.
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