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I teach advanced private piano lessons at my studio in West Bountiful, Utah, in weekly 45-minute sessions. Advanced study is for students already practising one to two hours a day. The work centres on Royal Conservatory of Music certification, Utah Federation of Music Clubs adjudication, concerto and ensemble repertoire, and college audition preparation.
There is a point where a student stops being challenged by their lessons and starts coasting. Parents usually read it as a motivation problem. It almost never is. It is a difficulty problem, and the fix is harder music with a real deadline attached.
Advanced study here is a different arrangement from my regular lessons. It assumes the student is doing the heavy work at home, which frees the lesson to be about interpretation, technical problems and performance readiness rather than learning notes.
This track is for a student who is already competent and wants to be measured. In practice that means:
If your student is not there yet, that is completely fine and it is the normal case. Weekly 60-minute lessons are where almost every advanced student of mine started.
Because the work is different. A 60-minute lesson for a developing student includes learning new pieces in the studio, because that is where the acceleration comes from. An advanced student has already done that at home.
The 45 minutes is concentrated coaching: refining passages that are already under the fingers, solving specific technical problems, working on interpretation and shaping, and preparing repertoire to performance standard. It is a shorter lesson doing harder work.
RCM is an internationally recognised graded assessment system for musicians. Students prepare a set repertoire list plus technique, ear training and sight reading at their level, then perform it for an examiner who grades against a published national standard.
It matters for two reasons. It gives a student an external deadline and an objective measure, which is worth more to a serious player than any amount of encouragement. And it produces a documented record of achievement that is useful later, in university auditions and scholarship applications.
I have prepared students for RCM certification for years. One of my students received a State Award from the Royal Conservatory.
Yes. For students heading toward a university music program, the work is repertoire selection built around what specific programs ask for, technical polishing to audition standard, and enough mock performance that the real one is not the first time they have played it under pressure.
Start this early. A student who begins audition preparation in their final year has left it late.
Advanced places are limited, because I teach every lesson myself and the daily practice requirement means these students take up a specific kind of slot.
Call 801-718-3682 or use the contact form, and tell me what your student is currently working on and how long they practise each day. That is usually enough for me to tell you whether the advanced track is the right fit or whether another year of 60-minute lessons would serve them better.
The 45 minutes is concentrated coaching on repertoire the student has already learned at home. It assumes one to two hours of daily practice doing the note-learning, which frees the lesson for interpretation, technique and performance preparation.
One to two hours a day. This is a condition of the track, not a target. The shorter lesson format does not work without it.
The Royal Conservatory of Music certificate program is an internationally recognised graded assessment. Students prepare set repertoire plus technique, ear training and sight reading, then perform for an examiner who grades against a published standard.
Yes. That work covers repertoire selection for specific programs, technical polishing to audition standard, and mock performances so the audition is not the student's first time playing it under pressure.
Weekly 60-minute lessons, which is where nearly every advanced student of mine started. The advanced track is a commitment level, not a talent level.
