As a concert pianist, who once faced serious physical health problems caused by a massive muscle overuse, I had a perfect chance to develop, test, and apply findings about efficiency and safety of piano playing. This painful experience turned out to be the most beneficial one for both, my performing and especially teaching activities, because it provoked me to deeply analyze and restructure my entire technique, study the physiology of piano playing, develop new practicing ways, and get the necessary knowledge and experience in order to recognize the root of any technical issue and be able to find an efficient way to solve it.

Such a technique optimization approach includes various aspects:

• understanding how to use the whole arm and body as a unit
• applying the weight of the arm accordingly in order to reduce the tension and avoid working with isolated fingers
• motion coordination of the body parts in order to resolve difficulties
• adjusting the hand posture
• understanding how the efficiency of physical motion can benefit musical expressivity

Of course, music is not just about technique. We need a proper technique not per se, but in order to express ourselves freely through the language of music.

Apart of providing students with clear instructions, my task is to introduce them to the joyful experience of embodiment of the creative ideas into musical sounds.

Each piece is a captivating story or a journey.