NATURE PROVIDES immediate feedback on the environment the horticulturalist creates, making it easy to agree on the best way of raising plants. With children the issues of learning music are a lot more complex, but not fundamentally different. During the seventeen years I taught at the Junior Royal College of Music, I came to realise that the system of the conservatoire pedagogy harmed as many students as it helped. And so, in 1991, I resigned from the world of ‘establishment musicianship’.
Subsequently I became a private piano teacher in Wiltshire. This gave me an ideal environment to explore ...
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