Frank Daykin, Piano Teacher, Vocal Coach

Frank Daykin, Piano Teacher, Vocal Coach Experienced artist-level piano teacher, and renowned expert in French art song.

04/13/2023

Since when is it an ‘insult’ to be called an ‘intellectual pianist?’ ..; Alfred Brendel

I wish that very quality for all my students, COUPLED WITH the emotional accessibility needed for all music to speak to the heart also.

Head/Heart ratio, ideally: 100/100% Yes, you read right. That’s 200% we need to give, at least!

Lessons with me are fun AND informative.

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267-629-9526

04/06/2023

Pianists: Lesrning to play legato is the great challenge of the instrument. The sound decays the moment the hammer strikes the string(s) and falls back. One must listen to the continuation of the tone and ‘match’ the next note to it, passing tne weight from fingertip to fingertip smoothly, without clenching in the under-forearm. Of course, if you carry this to its illogical conclusion, every single phrase would get softer and softer! Come have a lesson and find out how to outsmart that phenomenon…

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267-629-9526

03/30/2023

A great deal of my teaching analysis begins with the bass, which is the BASE/BASIS, of everything going on above it. Polyphony too…

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03/23/2023

All performers: remember, everything you do ‘reads’ on stage, before you’ve even sung or played a single note.,The way you come out from the wings, fast or slow?, confident?, smiling?, concentrated?, how are you dressed?, how’s your bow?, do you fiddle with the bench too much?. So many things!

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267-629-9526

02/24/2023

Singers! Come have a coaching and find out what Robert Shaw called ‘the ecstasy of enunciation’! Diction as spiritual manifestation…

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267-629-9526

02/16/2023

Nothing can truly be done artistically at the piano without the ‘INNER CONCEPTION OF THE TONE,’ before the fingers/hands are placed on the keys!

02/02/2023

I am happy to announce that, due to the generous advocacy of pianist Marianna Prjevalskaya, I have been asked to give not one but TWO masterclasses at East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN) on April 21/22. The first is on French art song, and the second is a piano masterclass.

Are any of my talented friends within a comfortable drive of Johnson City? A reunion would be great. It’s close to Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina (Asheville), and even Alabama…

Address

41-20 46 Street
Long Island City, NY
11104

Telephone

+12676299526

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