Central Music School

A highly qualified and accomplished Musician, Accompanist, Lecturer and Piano Teacher, Irina Klamka has had more than twenty-five years of professional experience.

Born in Russia, Irina achieved a High Distinction for both her Diploma in Music and her Bachelor of Music with honours Degree from the Saratov State Conservatorium of Music.

Irina’s talents range over many areas of expertise. She has accompanied strings, wind instruments, vocal and choral; and has performed as opera repetiteur. In addition, Irina has been a successful lecturer in Piano at the Australian Institute of Music. Her teaching capabilities were recognised in 2015, 2016 and 2017 when she was awarded, on each occasion, The Certificate of Distinction in the category of Most Outstanding Private Teacher ( AMEB NSW ).

PIANO CLASSES

The quality of one's performance reflects the quality of one's practice. Practising must be INTERESTING and never boring! How to make practice productive? First rule: practice must be done REGULARLY.

Vladimir Horowitz, a virtuoso pianist, who performed till his eighties, expressed it the best: "If I skip practice for one day, I notice. If I skip practice for two days, my wife notice. If I skip practice for three days, the world notices".

OUR PROGRAMMES

THE IMPORTANCE OF A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO EFFECTIVELY PRACTICE ON THE CLASSICAL PIANO.

The quality of one's performance reflects the quality of one's practice.

Practising must be INTERESTING and never boring!

So, how can you make practice meaningful and productive and, thereby, more interesting? Follow the rules.

First rule: practice must be done REGULARLY.

Vladimir Horowitz, a virtuoso pianist, who performed until his eighties, expressed it best: "If I skip practice for one day, I notice. If I skip practice for two days, my wife notice. If I skip practice for three days, the world notices".

Training 100 billion wire-neurones, connected to each other by synapses, is a big job, and impossible to achieve without the energy of passion. A pianist is working on building automatic motor skills, through repetitions. Practice makes perfect: practice is a course, myelin is effect = makes perfect.

Second rule; RECALL.

Learning complex skills takes time. The newly learned skills must be supported within 10 hours of original learning, otherwise much of the hard work will be wasted.

Third rule; SLOW TEMPO PRACTICE.

A high degree of attention to detail and intense focusing is requires slow tempo practice. Daniel Barenboim states, "I always practise the technically difficult passages first - SEPARATELY and SLOWLY - so that I learn to control and phrase them. One must resist the temptation to try out the right tempo until one has perfect control at the slower tempo".

Fourth rule; CHUNKING and MEMORISING.

Pieces must be practiced in small chunks. Pattern, structure and form must be recognised and identified. Music is not really learned if it is not memorised!

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