"It is a great privilege to study with Brenna Berman. She not only has an absolute mastery of the keyboard but is also a very focused and enthusiastic teacher. Her painstaking meticulousness in teaching technique   has   paid   off:   my
playing now has a smoothness and evenness that I had despaired of ever attaining."

-Jamal A.

"I had been taking formal piano lessons for 11 years prior to beginning lessons with Brenna last year. My previous playing was good but hitting a plateau; however, I have made great strides artistically and technically over the past year. It's obvious that Brenna has dedicated her life to the craft of piano playing. She knows so many sneaky little tricks that are so technically effective and to which I've never been exposed."

- Terence Cooper

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The Golandsky Institute

The Golandsky Institute was established in 2003 by Edna Golandsky, John Bloomfield, Robert Durso and Mary Moran to bring high-level training in the Taubman Approach to the musical community. This Approach has proven to be highly effective in the resolution of technical limitations and playing-related injuries. The aim of the Institute is to provide musicians with a foundation that allows for full artistic expression and the development of virtuosic technical ability.

The work of the Golandsky Institute is presented internationally through private instruction, lectures, master classes, performances and symposia by a team of expertly trained faculty members and teachers who are all highly regarded in their own right. In addition, the Institute has produced several series of DVDs. In 2005, it released the highly acclaimed 3-disc DVD set, The Art of Rhythmic Expression, the first issue of its Discovery Series. Following that, it released another 3-disc DVD set entitled The Art of Concert Preparation, as well as a single disc DVD entitled Impressionism: Capturing the Illusive Image - A Lecture/Demonstration by Paul Roberts, the first of its Distinguished Presenters Series.

The Golandsky Institute presents an annual Summer Symposium and International Piano Festival at Princeton University where pianists, teachers, and students alike come to experience the works of great composers and deepen their understanding of the art of piano playing.

Through educational programs, professional collaborations and continued research, the Golandsky Institute seeks to raise the awareness of the musical community and the public at large to the issues musicians face and the solutions available to them.