Piano Lab 6 - Honors
This course is rigorous, requires advanced technical and interpretive skills and is designed for individual musicians who are very self-directed and can complete assignments on their own. Students at this advanced level learn a complete recital repertoire involving pieces of great length and difficulty such as Liszt etudes, Barber and Chopin sonatas and full concertos. Most students at this level enter (and often win) local, state and national competitions. Besides performing a recital, these students perform often at DSA (minimum of twice a semester) and also for outside concert venues. Students at this level may also accompany other instrumentalists or singers, choral ensembles, play in chamber music ensembles, play in the pit orchestra for one of the yearly musicals or play in one of the jazz bands. Sight-reading level five materials and two hours daily of outside practice is expected.