Imagine three employees. The first one - let’s call him Steve- spends twelve hours per day at his office. He eats there, sleeps there, he doesn’t have any li...

Practice makes perfect - everyone knows this saying. It's true about any skill you need for work or leisure. We use this phrase all the time but probably now...

Physics is by far my dad's greatest passion. Ever since I remember he has been fascinated by the universe and various theories about its nature. It's extreme...

The other day, a friend asked me to write a post about efficiency, especially regarding to piano practice. Why she thought I was the right person to do that ...

A few days ago, I had a nice chat with Aleksander Debicz, a pianist I met several years ago at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg. Alek has just been n...

A few posts ago, I introduced you to the first part of my project about the human brain and its reaction to music. Today, I’d like us to dive deeper into the...

Today, I'd like us to come back to the topic which I started in the 'Greek tragedy with a piano' post - what options young musicians have to develop their ca...

Today, I'm going to take up a very difficult subject of a thinking pattern which is hugely responsible for all kinds of stress. We learn it at the young age ...

Ever since I started this blog I've felt that it would be a good idea to share with you a few chapters from a project I wrote a little while ago. I'm sure i...

In my last post, I wrote about various emotions covered by the term 'stress' and their positive and negative effects. I focused particularly on fear, its rea...

These days we hear about it all the time. But I think the subject of stress in a musician's life specifically is worth bringing up. Both professionals and am...

Every week, I'm going to post three quiz questions here. After four rounds I will sum up the points and announce the winner! The prize is a big surprise ;). ...

How many classical pianists do you know? Ten? Twenty? Maybe fifty? Now, let's try to estimate how many piano students graduate with a higher education degree...

No other topic causes as many controversies among musicians as competitions. Almost every pianist I know has his or her opinion on this subject. World famous...

One of the great advantages of being a piano student is that you have many excuses to travel around the world. If you're canny enough you can find plenty of ...