APPI is now accepting memberships for the 2020-2021 academic year!

Please note that all memberships renew in August/September.

Join or Renew Your Membership Today!

The Association of Professional Piano Instructors (APPI) is a non-profit organization that enables piano instructors of all levels and abilities to network with others to energize and enhance the art of teaching piano.

APPI Teachers meet from 11:00- 12:30 pm on the second Friday of the month, September - May.   
New this year: Teacher Meetings are held via Zoom and are always free - visitors are welcome!

 Feel free to eat lunch while listening (for that matter you can brush and floss, paint your fingernails, or even do yoga while listening – isn’t Zoom great?!).
The Zoom link for the meeting is:
 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83849285577?pwd=SkxldUZobnhvbEcyZ1U4YndLcnRJZz09
 
Meeting ID: 838 4928 5577
Passcode: 120765

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Topic: Modern Piano Teaching Methods - A Survey and Discussion
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Facilitator: Paul Kovacovic

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Teacher Meetings are held via Zoom

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Friday, November 13, 2020



 ZOOM meeting

Email Laurie Sanderson to register: lseeksand@gmail.com

​Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

 Piano teachers have long enjoyed the luxury of many tried and true method books. In recent years, new, modern method books have come into the piano teaching arena to compete for our attention. Even by title they are begging to be explored:  Piano Safari, Piano Pronto, The Carol Matz Interactive Method (and so much more!) What are these new methods and what do they have to offer?  Maybe you have valuable personal experience or insights to share!

This month's meeting will more closely resemble our Sharing Session format with guest speaker, Paul Kovacovic, acting as facilitator. These meetings are always best with YOUR input. Start by filling out Paul's short Survey: 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TXK6359

Paul Kovacovic enjoys a career that spans both classical and popular styles. Kovacovic has concertized across the United States and Czech Republic, and he has won first prizes in the Thursday Musical, Schubert Club, and Indiana University Piano Concerto Competitions. Kovacovic was an accompanist and coach for several theater companies including Florida Grand Opera in Miami, the Minnesota Opera, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, and Chanhassen Dinner Theatre. Paul loves to teach and compose as well as perform. Kovacovic studied piano at Indiana University with Edward Auer and at the University of Minnesota with Alexander Braginsky. He has also studied composition at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris and at film scoring workshops in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.

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