Becoming a Well-Rounded Keyboard Player

17 Sep 2026 @ 18:30 BST (GMT +01:00)

Do theory, ear training, sight reading or harmony sometimes feel like separate skills that sit somewhere around the edges of your piano playing? Perhaps you've studied some of them before, but never really connected them with the music you learn and practise.

Yet these wider musicianship skills can have a direct impact on how we hear and understand music, how efficiently we learn it and how reliably we remember it.

In this practical workshop, pianist, teacher and composer Lona Kozik will bring these connections to life through the exploration of a familiar piece. Using Bach's Prelude in C major from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier as a starting point, you'll approach the music from several perspectives and discover how wider musicianship skills can reinforce one another rather than existing as separate subjects or exam requirements.

Through a sequence of guided activities, you'll connect what you hear, what you understand and what you play, uncovering patterns and relationships that may previously have gone unnoticed.

Most importantly, the workshop is not simply about understanding one piece more deeply. You'll leave with techniques and new ways of working that you can begin applying immediately to your own repertoire, helping you learn more efficiently, strengthen your musical memory and make stronger connections between the score, the ear and the keyboard.

What You'll Explore

• How different areas of musicianship can work together when learning and practising repertoire.
• Ways of recognising patterns, structure and musical relationships beyond the individual notes on the page.
• The relationship between what you see, what you hear and what you play.
• How hearing and musical understanding can support learning and memorisation.
• Ways of transferring these approaches to other music you are learning.

What You'll Take Away

• Techniques you can begin applying immediately to your own repertoire.
• New approaches to learning music more efficiently and remembering it more reliably.
• Ways of hearing and understanding familiar music from fresh perspectives.
• Ideas for integrating wider musicianship skills into everyday piano practice.
• A more connected approach to the score, the ear and the keyboard.

Who It's For

This workshop is aimed primarily at elementary to intermediate pianists who would like to develop a more rounded approach to learning and playing music.

It will be particularly useful if you:

• Spend most of your practice time working on repertoire and technique.
• Feel that gaps in your broader musical training may be holding back your playing.
• Have studied theory, aural or other musicianship skills separately but do not always connect them with your playing.
• Would like to hear and understand the music you play more clearly.
• Want to learn pieces more efficiently, develop a more reliable memory or improve your sight reading.
• Want to incorporate wider musicianship skills more naturally into your everyday practice.

The underlying ideas are also applicable at more advanced levels and may be useful to piano teachers.

No advanced theory knowledge is required.

Ticket Options & Prices

Tickets cost £30 or £18 for Online Academy subscribers.

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