Sat 1 July
Student Concert
Sat 7 July
organ recital at Boston Stump
Sun 9 July and more
Training Children's Choir for performances of Jonathan Dove's Tobias and the Angel at Oundle Festival
Thu 20 Dec
conducting St Martin's Singers Concert at Stamford
2008
Sat 26 April
conducting Vivaldi Gloria and other works at Stamford
Recent past performances
FERGUS BLACK
Werrington
PETERBOROUGH
PE4 6LW

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Piano Teaching - TIPS AND LINKS

Examples of Fergus's approach

Click for tips on :-
Sight Singing (this really is for pianists too!)
Memorising
Tips for listening to music with understanding:-
1 (Vocabulary)

Visit other web sites about the piano

If you're interested in the piano, find out more at these web sites

  • Find a Piano Teacher on-line (including me!)
  • The Incorporated Society of Musicians - keeps a register of professional private music teachers, by location and instrument
    or at any or all of the following:-
    The UK Piano Page
    MusicTeachers.co.uk
    The Virtual Pianoshop
    Find - a - teacher
    Real UK Music
    Music-online is a music portal that advertises itself as "Your One Stop Music Shop for Sheet music, CDs, Music Teachers, Events, Instruments and Insurance"
  • Free music on the Internet
  • If you want to know where to get free piano music on the internet, click Musica VIva. Free means that it is by composers who died 70 years ago, and in editions at least 25 years old, and is thus in the public domain, free from copyright. In a way I don't quite approve of these sites, not because I think we owe music publishers a living - we don't! - but because the editions are mostly, by definition, old, and have been superseded by more modern ones, not to mention the cleaner layout you will find in the better modern printed editions. It is one of the duties of a respectable performer to be playing from an accurate source. However, I use these sites all the time!

    I think the best site for piano music is the Sheet Music Archive
    The site Piano Street also has a large collection of public domain music - some is free, but most you have to pay for (2,500 pages at the last count) - all for only 36USD a year.
    Also, Free SheetMusic Library has what looks like the complete piano music of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms in downloadable pdf. A great resource

    The Chopin Files offer Waltzes, Preludes, Nocturnes and Etudes (complete as far as I can see)

    General Resources
    The Piano Education Page

    Pianopedia is a search engine performing queries over a large database of classical piano works using flexible combinations of criteria (e.g. composer, composer nationality, title, duration, date of composition, key and mode)