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Melanie Spanswick

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Teaching Observations: Favourite Fellowship Piano Diploma Repertoire

May 21, 2023
Teaching Observations: Favourite Licentiate Piano Diploma Repertoire

April 23, 2023
Teaching Observations: Favourite Associate Piano Diploma Repertoire

April 16, 2023
My Notebooks – A Personal Journey: Angeline Bell

February 11, 2023
Queen Elizabeth II and the Ghosts of Windsor Castle

September 18, 2022
Women Composers – A Graded Anthology For Piano

February 13, 2022
Pianists From The Past: Teresa Carreño

June 28, 2020
Harpsichord basics by Katharine May

June 23, 2018
Hand Flexibility: Piano Professional Article

April 17, 2018
A few thoughts on publishing houses: a tour of Oxford University Press

February 8, 2018
Guest Post: Andreas Eggertsberger speaks out about Focal Dystonia

January 8, 2018
Play it again: PIANO Book 1

May 25, 2017
9 Top Tips for Practising Octaves

December 7, 2015
Resolving Tension in Piano Playing: Article for EPTA’s Piano Professional

January 24, 2015
Some thoughts on chordal playing in the Scottish Legend Op. 54 No. 1 by Amy Beach

December 4, 2013
Rhythmic Precision in the First Movement of Beethoven’s Sonata in C Minor Op. 10 No. 1

October 30, 2013
A few thoughts on Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 in C Sharp Minor Op. Posth.

October 15, 2013
Celebrating the Left Hand

September 18, 2013
Why is Grade 5 Theory so important?

August 12, 2012
The healing powers of music: repairing brain damage

June 14, 2012
Structured piano practice in 5 simple steps

May 3, 2012
Piano exam success: 9 key points

March 13, 2012
10 reasons to play the piano

February 18, 2012

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