Keyboard Lessons With Amy Rosser
Amy's keyboard lessons are ideal for students who are new to the piano. She explains every subject clearly and supplements her lessons with examples from well-known tunes, which makes them easy and fun to follow.

At the absolute beginner level, Amy starts with demonstrating good posture, hand and finger position, and the layout of the keyboard. She explains pitch and the musical alphabet, rhythm and note values, time signatures, treble and bass clef, advanced dynamic markings and other common musical terms. The lessons continue with finger warm-ups, discussing melodic and harmonic 2nds, 3rds, 4ths and 5ths, and an explanation of ties, slurs and phrases, dotted notes, and accidentals. Amy discusses scales and key signatures and the circle of 5ths, chords and inversions, pick-ups and incomplete measures, and relative major and minor.

books: (Alfred) Max Keyboard 1 – book and DVD

gear: 1917 Steinway "M" piano
2 William Dowd harpsichords

Amy Rosser is an active music instructor in Northwest Connecticut. Her very full roster of piano students includes pianists ranging from 6 to 50 years of age. As many as 80 children per week take Kindermusik classes with Amy. Kindermusik, is a movement and music curriculum for children from birth to 7 years of age directed at the "whole child," and helps with the development of many important physical and mental skills outside of music. Amy Rosser has been a dedicated educator since the early 1980s, and has taught at Goucher College in Maryland and Dickenson College in Pennsylvania. She has also led music history seminars in London and successfully prepared serious young musicians for music school auditions.

Amy is also a seasoned harpsichord performer. She is a member of Baltimore's Pro Musica Rara, a group devoted to the performance of Baroque and early Classical music on period instruments. This year, they will be artists-in-Residence at Towson State Univsersity in the Baltimore area. As a member of Pro Musica Rara, Amy has performed with some of the world's most celebrated performers, including Anner Bylsma (Baroque cello), John Thiesson (early trumpets) and Catherine Turocy (Baroque dance). She has also performed throughout the US with guitarist Nathaniel Gunod.

WorkshopLive interview with Amy Rosser, coming soon...

Started: age 10
Education: BM and MM in Harpsichord Performance,
Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University
Instruments: Harpsichord, Piano
Style: Classical