Back to Basics — Part 2
The continuation of a special pedagogy workshop exploring piano tone production, touch, musical sound, and expressive playing.
Workshop Overview
This special two-part workshop explores the foundations of piano tone production and the many touches that form a pianist’s expressive “toolbox”.
Participants will learn how different touches produce different colours and characters of sound, and how these sounds may be applied meaningfully within musical interpretation.
Participants must attend Part 1 as Part 2 is a continuation.
Toh Chee Hung
Join Toh Chee Hung — concert pianist, highly respected teacher-mentor, and adjudicator — for a rare pedagogy workshop sharing profound insights into the art of producing a truly musical tone at the piano.
Back to Basics — The Introduction to the Art of Piano Playing (Part 2)
From this understanding of tone production and physical freedom at the instrument, Chee Hung explores how sound can become eloquent, cantabile, heroic, stirring, multi-layered, and deeply expressive — capable of conveying the full emotional spectrum demanded by the piano repertoire.
This is not merely technical training, but a lifelong artistic journey requiring patience, openness, humility, and deep listening.
Workshop Contents Include
- Making a musical tone at the piano — the fundamental touch
- Enjoying the physical forces of nature
- Explanation and demonstration of the various possible touches that can make up a pianist’s “toolbox”
- Hands-on participation and exploration
- Mindful listening and awakening the inner ear
- Clinic on touches
- Applying what has been discussed to repertoire that is “work in progress”
- Musically informed considerations for interpretation of style, phrase-structure, form, texture, rhythm and harmony
About Toh Chee Hung
Toh Chee Hung left her native Singapore to pursue advanced studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she was awarded the Gold Medal in Piano Performance together with postgraduate scholarships.
She later studied European pedagogical traditions with disciples of Alfred Cortot and Ernő Dohnányi, and has performed internationally across Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Widely respected as a pedagogue, adjudicator, and mentor, she has conducted masterclasses and workshops extensively, inspiring generations of pianists and teachers through her deep musical insight and artistic integrity.
Registration Fees
Teachers who entered students for the 9th Singapore Performers’ Festival 2026, as well as students, enjoy 50% off regular fees.
Teachers of 9th PF Students
Per session
SMTA Members
Per session
Non-Members / Public
Per session
Early bird fees till 1 June 2026. Limited seats available.
Venue
Music Salon @ Yamaha Thomson Plaza
301 Upper Thomson Road #03-24
Thomson Plaza Singapore 574408
MRT: Upper Thomson