Steven Wilson:
Experience:
Professional: Five years' teaching experience.
Educational: Former student of Paul Pollei, Jeff Manookian, Robert Bailey. A.A. in Music. Current student of communication at the University of Utah.
Personal: Eagle scout. Returned missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
"As a pianist, I hope to see piano pedagogy re-enlivened as an up-to-date business, genuine musicianship revisited as a popular sport, and, consequently, music itself reapproached as a more current science.”
Pedagogical Contributions:
For public school boards missing assurance of academic value in studying music, for private piano teachers seeking ways to enliven their pedagogical persuits, and for self-taught savants of all systems lacking that evasive grasp of music theory:
"The Spinning Wheel"TM
(integrated curriculum)
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For musicians at heart without the attention span required to learn to read music, for struggling students missing the gratification they expect in return for practice, and for all those disenchanted bright minds who quit piano as kids, but now miss only the final spark for the long awaited comeback against their childhood instrument
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"Piano Roll"TM
(alternative music notation)
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For unnoticed students missing the thrill of competition as it gives way to tedium, for competitors seeking truly intense, cutting edge coaching to become best, and for habitual winners with an insatiable appetite for triumph.
"1-2-8"TM
(teaching methodology)
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A cooperative artistic canvas:
"Open Source Music"TM
(community compositions)