Various Learning Opportunities in PTNA Piano STEP

2014/03/28 | コメント(0)  | トラックバック(0)  | 
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PTNA Piano STEP, the evaluation stage with a concert-like setting, is 1-2 days event that lasts from morning to evening. Then, what are participants doing other than their stage performances? Well, there are lots of ideas of effective use of time. 

Some venues provide music workshops in the room next to the concert hall and recommend everyone to join it; participants, parents, teachers, friends, and audience members alike. In Tokorozawa STEP, participants enjoyed creating original Christmas songs. (photo below)

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STEP is also a good opportunity to listen to other participants. A piano teacher, Emi Maruta (representative of Amagasaki Station) recommends her students to listen to other participants to know advanced-level repertoires, to understand the different interpretation of the same piece that they are playing, and to get interested in the new repertoires that they have heard yet.

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STEP also encourages "continuation" of learning piano. Among 33,730 participants in 2013, 17% of them (5,655) have participated twice a year.  Yuta Kanda (13) promises himself to take part in 5-6 different competitions a year, and gets used to the stage performances by participating STEP prior to the competitions. As a result, he made public performances 50 times by the time he graduated elementary school at the age of 12. Now, lots of stage experiences enable him to set up the goal and accomplish it in the short period of time. 


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Naomi Ishii (representative of Kobe Central Station, the founder of Japan J.S.Bach Music Concours) requires her students to play all the pieces of Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias in STEP. Everyone has to play 3 pieces each time that makes them achieve the goal in 5 times. 

PTNA recently published a study guidebook for PTNA Piano STEP 2014, in which various ideas of piano learning by STEP are introduced!


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