Donald Berman Piano - The Art of Touching the Piano

The Art of Touching the Piano is the title of a work by the British composer Judith Weir. Its name is a play on Couperin's title for his treatise on harpsichord playing. I use it here to represent my experience as a student and teacher of piano.

I strive to infuse my programs with stylistic approaches that converse across centuries, and to introduce my audiences and my students to the diversity of traditional, cross-cultural, and modern repertoires.

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"The Art of Touching the Keyboard" is a tour de force for the solo pianist, who basically gives a little guided tour of the history of instrumental attack and articulation from the Baroque period through Romanticism into the modern era, all using the same basic thematic and harmonic material. The piece is instructive and delightful, and Donald Berman played the dickens out of it."

—Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

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