Pianistic Traditions:

There is a lot of research about the handing down of specific approaches to piano technique and interpretation and how these can be seen as national schools and/or centred around important teachers/performers. National schools are for example the French school of pianism with its jeu perle, and the Russian. See such an explanation of lineage here: CLICK TO VIEW

 Individual teachers of great fame include Leschetizky, Liszt, Vengerova. Read here below for the pianistic traditions we represent as a teacher-pupil list:

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Isabelle Vengerova (pupil of Leschetizky, thus connected to Beethoven and Czerny tradition, but renowned in her own way as a teacher)

Jacob Lateiner, professor, Julliard School of Music

Dimitri Toufexis, piano professor/former Head of Music Dept., The American College of Greece & Attiko Conservatory, Athens, Greece

Natalie (1988-1992, 1994-1997 & Panayotis 1990-1994)

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Vengerova

Dr. Schick, professor West Chester University of Pa. and author

Natalie (Dr. Schick taught chamber music and Natalie was his assistant for accompanying, 1992-94)

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Vengerova 

Di Bonaventura

Dr. Timothy Blair, Professor/Dean, Music Dept, WCU

Natalie (Dr. Blair was Natalie's teacher for piano pedagogy 1993-1994)

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Johaness Brahms* and Clara Wieck Schumann

Friedberg

William Masselos, professor, Julliard

Dr. Donna McHugh, professor, WCU

Natalie (Dr. McHugh was principle solo piano performance tutor 1993-1994)

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*After his early piano lessons with Otto Cossel, Brahms studied piano with Eduard Marxsen, who had studied in Vienna with Ignaz von Seyfried (a pupil of Mozart) and Carl Maria von Bocklet (a close friend of Schubert). 

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Beethoven

Czerny

Leschetizky & Zaremba (teacher of Tcaikovsky and himself pupil of great pedagogues such as John Field and Moscheles)

Safonov

Joseph Lhevinne

Sasha Gorodnitsky

Dr. Bedford, piano professor, WCU

Natalie (piano solo performance, 1992)

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Beethoven

Czerny

Leschetizky

Artur Schnabel

Maria Curcio Diamand

Elena Riu, piano professor, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London (duet coaching & solo piano performance, 2005-2007)

Panayotis & Natalie 

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Beethoven

Czerny

Franz Liszt

Martin Krause

Claudio Arrau

Elizabeth Powell, piano professor, New South Wales Conservatory (part of University of Sydney)

Panayotis (piano solo performance, ASCM, 1986-1990)

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Chopin

Pierre Zimmerman

Antoine Marmontel

Antonin Marmontel

Marguerite Long Pierre Zimmerman

Elizabeth Powell (as above)

Panayotis

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