Carola Grindea speaks with Yaltah Menuhin about her musical upbringing and career
You must have been very young when you started to play the piano. Do you remember anything about your first years at the piano?
I was about three when I began to play. I remember my first teacher very clearly. She was a warm-hearted person and held me on her knees most of the time. I cannot remember anything about the music, but her comforting presence is still with me in my memory. It was very amusing to hear her say, many years later, that I was her best pupil. We both laughed when I asked her if that was the best she could do.
When I was four, I was taken to Paris because Yehudi and Hephzibah began to study there. Marcel Ciampi, the piano professor, accepted Hephzibah but would not hear of giving lessons to a little four-year-old girl. When I rushed to the piano and began to play Schumann&#;s Kinderszenen, though, he agreed to teach me as well. With him the lessons were quite different. He was demanding, but could not help feeling paternal towards me. I am grateful that he stimulated my interest in practicing, making all the technical exercises more like games &#; I had to play them in a
Great Pianists and Pedagogues
Carola Grindea interviews over 48 of the greatest pianists and piano teachers of the 20th century in this unique book. The contributors provide fascinating comments about their experiences, their first encounters with the piano, and their lives as performers and teachers.
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These 48 interviews conducted during the s and &#;90s with some of the great pianists of our time first appeared in the &#;Piano Journal&#; (published by the European Piano Teachers&#; Association). The contributors provide fascinating and illuminating insights about their experiences: their first encounters with the piano, then as students and later as performers and teachers &#; handing down ideas and traditions through the generations which is central to the world of piano teaching and performance.
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Introduction
Louis Kentner
Murray Perahia
The Menuhins – Jeremy, Yaltah, Hephzibah
Radu Lupu
Fanny Waterman
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vlado Perlemuter
Russell Sherman
Jorge Bolet
Joseph Bloch
Maurice Hinson
Kendall Taylor
Edith Picht-Axenfeld
Shura Cherkassky
Magda Tagliaferro
Reginald Gerig
Bernard Roberts
Tamas Vasary
Jo
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Skip to contentCarola Grindea was a pianist who had a profound impact on the teaching of her chosen instrument and developed therapies for performers afflicted by physical and psychological incapacity. Her therapeutic method, which came to be known as the Grindea Technique, was based on the assumption that pianists suffered because of the way they played, not because they overplayed. She encouraged musicians to play with greater proficiency as well as comfort
Famous Romanians: piano teacher Carola Grindea
Carola Grindea was a famous Romanian-born piano teacher and the founder of two renowned music institutions: the European Piano Teachers Association and the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance. She developed a therapeutic method, called Grindea technique, a pre-performance tool to help release tension and achieve mental focus.
By Alexandra Fodor
Carola Grindea (Rabinovici) was born in in Piatra Neamt, Romania. She attended the Bucharest Music Academy, where she studied with one of the most famous music teachers, Constantza Erbiceanu.
In , two days before the outbreak of the World War II, she emigrated to London, where she studied piano with Tobias MattHay while working at the Romanian section of the BBC at Bush House.
Between and she taught piano at the French Lycee in London. In , she joined the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, as a piano teacher and she also started a lecture series, entitled the Techniques of Piano Teaching.
In , she founded the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA), which now has branches in 40 European countries as well as in Brazil, India, Japan, Latin A
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