Gives students the tools for expressive performance.
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The husband and wife team Nancy and Randall Faber are internationally known as authors of the Piano Adventures® teaching method and over two hundred publications for the piano. They recently founded the Faber Piano Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, where they live with their daughter Vivian. Nancy Faber, who was named "Distinguished Composer of the Year" by the Music Teachers National Association, enjoys a busy schedule of commissions for the concert stage in addition to her educational composing. Recent commissions include "The Snow Queen" for narrator and orchestra, "The Picture My Imagination Has Painted" for Flute Quartet and Piano, and "Trio for Flute, Saxophone and Piano". Her pieces have been heard on U.S. public radio and network television. She studied composition with Joan Tower, William Albright, and British composer Nicholas Maw; piano studies were at the Eastman School and Michigan State University. Randall Faber has toured Korea, Taiwan, Canada and the United Kingdom. He was master teacher for both the World Conference on Piano Pedagogy and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. He gave recitals in St. Louis, Ann Arbor, as Convention Artist for the North Dakota Music Teachers, and performed as Visiting Artist at the University of Michigan, University of Southern Mississippi, Saginaw State University, and numerous universities throughout South Korea. He was featured clinician for the Nebraska Music Teachers, the Florida Music Teachers and the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Convention, and recently presented his research at the 9th International Conference on Motivation in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Faber holds three degrees from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. The Fabers advocate piano study not only for personal expression and performance success, but also as a vehicle for the student's creative and cognitive development. Their philosophy is reflected in their writing, their public appearances, and in their own teaching.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good supplement for lesson book,
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Good book, good material. I find, though, that the Fabers offer an at-times confusing array of products (a criticism of how they have named or organised their materials, not a criticism of the product). This book is not essential, but is good for students who are motivated and want to become more serious performers. That said, I do find myself working the lessons from this book into my other students' instruction - which is good for all of us! Wouldn't hurt to have one of these on hand even if you didn't assign it to a student (since most young students find it a bit daunting to have a theory book, lesson book, performance book, technique and artistry book). If you have other Faber materials, like the lesson book or classics book, these lessons dovetail with those. For example, the first lessons in this book deal with staccato and legato techniques, which are features of the first lessons in the lesson book and the classics in the classics book, not to mention the theory stuff in the theory book. Also included is stuff on how to hold your wrist, which is not mentioned in the other books.
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