Taught by renowned instructor
Vadym Kholodenko
Join 2013 Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodekno as he shares the insights of his illustrious teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, the late Vera Gornostaeva. Kholodekno is one of a whole generation of pianists who emerged from Gornostaeva's studio and found international success.<br><br>In this lesson, he identifies three core principles Gornostaeva stressed to her pupils. The most important was sound. There is no single way of playing that can achieve a beautiful sound, nor is the category of "beautiful sound" helpful. Rather, there are specific sounds pianists must create in order to realize their expressive intention.<br><br>These expressive intentions are expanded to the realm of structure, which Gornostaeva understood as an attunement to the rhythmic unfolding of a work. Lastly, technical considerations are never addressed in the abstract, but only made when solving musical problems. Kholodenko demonstrates each principle in turn, using examples from Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Scriabin.
Sound, Structure, and Technique
Join 2013 Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodekno as he shares the insights of his illustrious teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, the late Vera Gornostaeva. Kholodekno is one of a whole generation of pianists who emerged from Gornostaeva's studio and found international success.
In this lesson, he identifies three core principles Gornostaeva stressed to her pupils. The most important was sound. There is no single way of playing that can achieve a beautiful sound, nor is the category of "beautiful sound" helpful. Rather, there are specific sounds pianists must create in order to realize their expressive intention.
These expressive intentions are expanded to the realm of structure, which Gornostaeva understood as an attunement to the rhythmic unfolding of a work. Lastly, technical considerations are never addressed in the abstract, but only made when solving musical problems. Kholodenko demonstrates each principle in turn, using examples from Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Scriabin.
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Unlock Course →Gold Medalist of the 2013 Cliburn Competition, Vadym Kholodenko is fast building a reputation as one of the most musically dynamic and technically gifted pianists of his generation, praised in his performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra “for his absorbing melodic shading [and] glittering passage work” (Philadelphia Enquirer).
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