Robert - Keyboard tutor - Cape Town
Robert - Keyboard tutor - Cape Town

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Robert

  • Rate 56AED
  • Response 18h
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    Number of students accompanied by Robert since their arrival at Superprof

Robert - Keyboard tutor - Cape Town
  • 4.9 (6 reviews)

56AED/hr

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Specialist in piano technique with international experience offers individual coaching for classical and jazz pianists

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About Robert

I was raised in Johannesburg, began playing the piano at the age of seven, and have played the piano for 35 years. In my youth my interests were equally divided between science and music. One of my early mentors who inspired me to pursue music professionally was Prof. Joseph Stanford at the University of Pretoria.

In 1998 I studied a year of mathematics and computer science through the University of South Africa (UNISA). In 1999 I moved to the University of the Witwatersrand where I began my music studies with Marian Friedman. In 2000 I was invited to work and study with Andrei Gavrilov at his home in Germany. Since then, I have received tuition from a number of distinguished pianists and teachers, including Lovro Pogorelich, Marija Bajalica, the late Nicolai Lomov, the late John Bell Young, Giselle Brodsky, and Roucher du Toit. My personal studies have taken me to Russia, Germany, Croatia, the United States, and back to Cape Town. I worked in Canada and Sri Lanka as a software developer and visual artist before returning to South Africa.

I have taught adult beginners, teenagers and young adults. One of my pupils won second prize in his first piano competition after a few months of coaching with me. I will accommodate those who have limited or no means. Have a chat with me and we can make a plan.

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  • 1st Year
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I am a sympathetic teacher and can build on every student's strengths and weaknesses. While technique is important, it is meaningless without musical understanding. I strive to impart an idiomatic understanding of composers such as Scriabin, Chopin, Clementi and J.S. Bach (among others).

I don't watch the clock when teaching as I want to give you the best possible chances of success. So lessons will be at least an hour, but are likely to last 90 minutes (if you are up for it).

Some of my methods include mirror image (symmetrically inverted) practicing, pioneered by Rudolf Ganz and used by the Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin and the late jazz pianist Chick Corea. I find this to be very effective in improving technical growth, as it exercises both hemispheres of the brain. Most classical pianists only practise their exercises in similar motion. I teach a fingering for chromatic scales that was used by Moriz Rosenthal, a Liszt pupil and pianist from the golden age of the piano. I have many other technical solutions to share with you that dramatically improve flexibility, lateral movement and navigation.

While my primary field of expertise is classical piano, I also teach jazz chords, scales and improvisation.

I can help adults who have always wanted to play the piano better as well as young, ambitious people. Wherever you are in the world, you are invited to an online or in-person lesson.

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  • 56AED

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  • 5h: 280AED
  • 10h: 560AED

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