PIANO STUDIO

Offering lessons for beginners through advanced & professional-level pianists. My studio is located in Bellevue, WA, in a tranquil residential neighborhood close to Eastgate neighborhood and within reach from the 90 freeway and central Seattle.  For more information and rates please call or text me at (323) 405 7029 and/or email info@lorenzomarasso.com.   

Philosophy of Teaching

My main teachers have been Ilonka Deckers-Küszler in Milan, Italy, who was a great Hungarian pedagogue coming directly from the piano school of Franz Liszt (and who taught several fine pianists such as Annie Fisher, Edith Farnadi, Alexander Lonquich, to name a few) and Domenico Canina, in Torino, Italy, who studied with the great Italian pianist and conductor Carlo Zecchi and the great Russian pianist Nikita Magaloff. Both have taught me a great deal about music, piano technique and instilled in me the love for the arts and literature and the importance of building a strong cultural background without which music making is hardly possible. My primary goal in teaching is to transmit and nurture in the students what I have learned through my teachers and what I have experienced and developed later on.

​I believe in a comprehensive way of teaching, one that is able to develop technique and musicality on the same path and doesn't fracture between those aspects as independent. I also believe in the true meaning of the word “technique” from the Greek “techne”, which means “art”. Technique has to be developed at an early stage of learning but should always be taught in the direction of music and musical meaning.

My method is dedicated to guiding students in learning progressively through the Classical repertoire, from J.S. Bach, through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, up to the Romantics, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin.

Aside from the weekly lessons, students are encouraged to participate in periodical public performances where they can exercise in the art of interfacing with an audience. Public competitions are also encouraged as part of the learning curriculum.

Performance Coaching

Several musicians experience blockages during their careers. Whether they take the form of physical tension or performance anxiety it is important to recognize them when they appear and treat them with the right tools.

I have several years of experience in helping performers affected by emotional and muscular tensions and successfully guide them in resuming a healthy music-making.

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