Suzanne Solum

Have you ever struggled practicing a song or difficult passage of the song and felt you weren’t getting very far?   However, when you started playing the next day, the notes began falling into place better than before.  Why?  The breaks taken between practice sessions actually helped you to process the music better than just […]

When I attended the 2013 Van Cliburn Judge’s Symposium this year in Ft. Worth, Texas, the judges of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition were talking about the importance of improvisation and how the great classical composers all knew how to improvise, which gave them ideas to create their musical compositions. They were saying how improvisation