"Playing the piano is Motion...Emotion...and Love."*
This teacher believes that music should also be FUN!
- We are committed to giving students the ability to understand the language of music and its structures, the music's place in history, and the emotional intentions of the pieces they are working on.
- Our goal at the Bernhard Piano Studio is to provide each pianist with an understanding of how to achieve freedom, balance, flexibility, and coordination of movement at the keyboard.
- We believe it is important for each student to develop his or her ideal hand and body positions at the keyboard for playing with ease.
*Thomas Mark, What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body"DorothyGrace Bernhard is an outstanding teacher of not only pianistic techniques but of the music’s structure, emotional underpinnings and, above all, its spirit. In addition to keeping up with the latest pedagogical methods available, she is unusually skillful at detecting what each individual student needs to perform at his or her highest level, and then expertly providing the training to achieve that end."
-- Walter H. Farrier, Former Chairman
Willamette University Dept. of Music
