Star Piano Studio

• Fluent, coherent expression, natural flow, convincing and in context to style
• Well detailed study of the score with a sense of overall form/structure
• Good tone production that is appropriate to the style, with sensitive balance and colour
• Personally engaged and communicative

• Appropriate balance and/or “voicing”
• Appropriate tempo and character, consistently maintained
• Rhythmic pulse, definition and vitality
• Clearly defined articulation
• Ornaments integrated into the melodic line
• Phrasing and shape of voices, awareness of linear contours and cadences
• Dynamic colour that illustrates awareness of motivic treatments, unfolding of form

• Appropriate balance and/or layering of melody and accompaniment texture
• Appropriate tempo, maintained with agogic flexibility
• Projection of mixture of “topos” or characters, contrasting dramatic and lyrical expression
• Detailed articulation, consistently maintained and integrated as expression
• Tone production in context of style, with a coherent dynamic plan reflective of the composer’s style and the compositional form.
• Rhythmic integrity and vitality

• Appropriate tempo as a reflection of central character
• Use of rubato and agogics
• Singing melody, as “narrative” with beautiful tone and a wide, subtly coloured dynamic range
• Phrasing, articulation, accentuation, and dynamics in context to the character and form
• Gracefully contoured and supportive accompaniment, cantabile
• Pedal effects to enhance texture, create warmth and legato flow
• Convey poetic, personal emotional expression of a coherent and central poetic idea

• Adheres to composer’s directions
• Clearly defined articulation and dynamics, careful phrasing
• Awareness of tone in context to style, reflective of central idea and meaning
• Phrasing and rhythmic character that reflects an understanding of the composer’s style and structure: pacing and shaping of musical ideas, unfolding a coherent expression
• Perception of harmonic structure and form, by voicing, colourations, moods and character expressions

• Scales played with good legato flow, consistent tempo, musical shape, beautiful and even tone-production. Staccato scales played crisply with consistent control of tone and touch, using well-maintained tempo.
• Chords played with firm rhythmic feel, appropriate and well-maintained tempo, and consistent tone production, with confident cadences (where required).
• Arpeggios played with consistent and fluid legato touch, musically shaped, using consistent and appropriate tempo.
• Overall: good fluency and knowledge in all required keys and patterns. Both hands equally well coordinated. Secure tempos and control of tone production and touch. 

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