Dorothy Taubman
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Dorothy Taubman is an American music teacher, lecturer and founder of the Taubman Institute of New York, who developed the "Taubman Approach" to piano playing. Her approach to piano technique is based on an analysis of the motions needed for virtuosity and musical expression, but at first earned a reputation through its high rate of success in curing playing injuries. It provoked controversy by questioning the physiological soundness of some tenets of traditional piano teaching.
in Massachusetts.
Formerly a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College and a professor at Temple University
, she has been featured in numerous articles and interviewed in the Boston Globe, Piano and Keyboard and Clavier magazines. Among others, Taubman has been noted for her work with Leon Fleisher
, a pianist who was forced to play with only one hand for many years due to a medical condition; and with the piano teacher Edna Golandsky
, who was the associate director of the Taubman Institute.
Besides offering a rational, diagnostic system aimed at solving the musical and physiological problems of piano interpretation, the techniques Taubman pioneered allow to cure repetitive stress injuries related to piano playing, and generally to rehabilitate injured pianists. Her techniques have been adapted to keyboard typing.
History
For many years, Taubman directed the Dorothy Taubman School of Piano at Amherst CollegeAmherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
in Massachusetts.
Formerly a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College and a professor at Temple University
Temple University
Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
, she has been featured in numerous articles and interviewed in the Boston Globe, Piano and Keyboard and Clavier magazines. Among others, Taubman has been noted for her work with Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...
, a pianist who was forced to play with only one hand for many years due to a medical condition; and with the piano teacher Edna Golandsky
Edna Golandsky
Edna Golandsky is a classical music pianist, lecturer and pedagogue of renown. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied under Rosina Lhevinne and Adele Marcus. She later studied privately during many years with noted pedagogue Dorothy Taubman, whom she considers her main influence...
, who was the associate director of the Taubman Institute.
Besides offering a rational, diagnostic system aimed at solving the musical and physiological problems of piano interpretation, the techniques Taubman pioneered allow to cure repetitive stress injuries related to piano playing, and generally to rehabilitate injured pianists. Her techniques have been adapted to keyboard typing.