<p>Hello.
★ New England Conservatory
★ Manhattan School of Music
★ Peabody Conservatory
★ Eastman School of Music </p>
<p>As for undergraduates, which schools have have the best piano departments?
Can anyone recommend me few teachers from each school PLEASE?</p>
<p>I was considering Manhattan for performance opportunities in the city...
and I was also thinking about Peabody because it has strong piano department...</p>
<p>Please help me ! ★ANY INFORMATION★ on TEACHERS/PIANO departments from these schools are welcome ! THANK YOU.</p>
<p>The Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada is an incredible piano school. Leon Fleisher and John Perry have are half-time teachers there, and Marc Durand and James Anagnoson are both absolutely phenomenal as well.</p>
<p>The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University is also very good, but there are definitely more graduate student openings annually than undergrad, and it is a small department to boot. Their practice situation is good, especially compared compared to NEC (which from reports I have heard is really awful. most of their facilities are a bit old, and not in a good way). Robert Roux is an excellent teacher and really can positively transform someone’s playing over the course of an undergraduate course of study - he doesn’t have the most positive energy in the world, but he’s always fair and reasonable and has simply brilliant ideas. Jon Kimura Parker is one of the most energetic and enthusiastic people I’ve ever met, and his graduate students are really phenomenal right now, but he takes few undergrads and the ones I’ve heard don’t seem to develop as fast as Dr. Roux’s undergrads, possibly because Dr. Parker isn’t always at school for consultation and advice that a younger student might need more often - he’s an active touring artist. Jeanne Kierman Fischer is also a very good teacher, but I haven’t heard many of her students, and none her students have won the school concerto competition in the last few years - possibly because she takes a large number of undergrads. Brian Connelly is a very positive guy and an excellent teacher, and one of his students was runner-up in this year’s concerto competition there, but his students don’t perform as often as some of the other studios - Dr. Parker has a studio recital practically monthly. They get a heck of a lot of performance experience, even in two year master’s programs.</p>
<p>The new conservatory at Bard College has an excellent piano department: Melvin Chen is the only one who is there one hundred percent of the time, but Peter Serkin and Jeremy Denk both maintain reasonably full studios and have at least biweekly lessons. I have heard really amazing things about both of them as teachers, and a student at Rice who just graduated from Bard as a student of Serkin just won the Rice’s piano concerto competition. Richard Goode also gives a masterclass there every semester, I think.</p>
<p>Those are my top three choices for college! :-)</p>
<p>Thank you so much ! Yes… there were lots of old teachers @ NEC. I will look into the teacher youve mentioned. Thanks again!</p>
<p>In addition at Bard there is a piano professor in the college, Blair McMillan who is also a great teacher (and well known proponent of New Music) and he seems to perform/collaborate with the pianists in the conservatory quite often.</p>
<p>Luckily for us, piano is an instrument that is found at every music school, period. That translates to what are usually larger departments than most other instruments and more teachers as well. Basically, virtually any big name music school has at least one good piano teacher. I’ve taken lessons with faculty at Oberlin, Lawrence, Northwestern and University of Wisconsin - Whitewater so if you want info on teachers from any of these schools, let me know.</p>
<p>I’ve also had a master class with a professor from University of Iowa, now that I’ve thought of it. I don’t know if these schools were exactly what you were looking for but I hope it’s of some help.</p>