Michal Tal

More than 100 weeks! I started my research on many wonderful women composers about 100 weeks ago. Composers whom I never had a chance to...

Chamber music is the real soul of making music: getting out of the lonely relationship with the piano , listening to all kinds of...

How many piano concertos were composed by women? You might think one or two (the Clara Schumann concerto is much more performed these...

Very Excited and happy, we are ready to open the festival! Starting this Monday in Arad, July 18-21 . We will stream all concerts live-...

"Music extends far beyond the score, it gives us focus, motivation and meaning in life through the ability to communicate and to develop"...

One of those times when you discover a composer who sweeps you right away: Montgeroult 's music is so unique , her life story is...

Recording GEMS was a great experience: meeting these wonderful composers and spending the time with their music and life story was so...

These days , when we face our third lockdown, one can certainly get up in the morning and breath deeply. One needs so much patience, and...

Today we heard about the death of a great woman who was the lighthouse for many others: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist icon,...

www.pianowebfest.com online international piano festival For pianists, piano teachers, piano students, piano amateurs, piano lovers...

“at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.” ― Alain de Botton, The...

Learning  a new concerto  is always a challenge, and getting back to an old concerto  is even bigger challenge. Working on both at the...

How many times you said to yourself: "Why am I doing this again?" after you listen to your  own recording/ a bad day of practicing/ a...

How many times we face the reality: the student did not practice well enough/ too little/with wrong sound or fingering/without any...

A great quote, I think. But in order to inspire the student (and yourself of course) you have to be peaceful with the need to play,...

How many piano concertos that were composed in the 20th century do we actually know? So many years of repertoire and always there is...

As performers and teachers we are aware of the connection between  concentration  and stamina when we experience  either short pieces...

It feels that there is certainly an injustice when you mention Czerny to piano students and most piano teachers: The stigma of "just...

It seems that the piano world is bursting of competitions for all ages: national, international and each of us teachers that has talented...

One of the virtues of technology is that you always face a new challenge in your teaching. I never thought teaching online was possible,...