Monday 8 July
| 16:00-18:00 | Registration |
| 18.00-19.30 | APPC 2024 Official Opening and Recital: Piers Lane performs Mozart, Chopin and Messiaen |
| 19:30-20:30 | Opening cocktail reception |
Tuesday 9 July
| 08.30-09.00 | Registration |
| 09.00-10.15 | Keynote: Katherine Zeserson (UK) |
| 10.15-10.45 | Morning Tea |
| 10.45-12.45 | Workshops and Lecture-recitals, with topics including: – Pedagogical contributions of William Bolcom and William Albright – Looking back from the year 2100 – piano teaching for the future – Workshop with Katherine Zeserson – Developing improvisation and cultivating creativity – Teaching beginner students (with Lisa Bastien) – Interpreting Chopin Mazurkas – Teaching expressive techniques |
| 12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45-15.15 | Workshops, Papers and Masterclasses, with topics including: – Percy Grainger’s music for children – Playful approaches to lesson planning – Colour-by-Numbers: An analogous experience for music performance – Making pedalling easy from the start – Introducing Korean folk music in piano arrangements – The value and purpose of music exams (with Paul Harris) – Masterclass with Piers Lane |
| 15.15-15.45 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15.45-17.15 | Workshops and Lecture-recitals, with topics including: – Rediscovering Christopher Norton – Using the body’s core in piano playing – Developing technique through popular piano pieces – Technique workshop: Flexibility, tone production and developing finger strength – Repertoire and resources for beginner teens – ‘Nailing Scaling’: A holistic approach to the teaching of scales, triads and arpeggios |
| 18.00-19.30 | Dinner // Break |
| 19.00-21.00 | Recital: Konstantin Shamray |
Wednesday 10 July
| 08.30-09.00 | Registration |
| 09.00-10.15 | Keynote: Paul Harris – Unconditional Teaching |
| 10.15-10.45 | Morning Tea |
| 10.45-11.45 | Keynote: Rae de Lisle – Building foundations for healthy playing |
| 11.45-12.45 | Workshops and Lecture-recitals, with topics including: – Not only Chopin! Polish contemporary repertoire for education – Group theory lessons: building collaboration and creativity in your piano studio (with Lisa Bastien) – Teaching repertoire from The Composer’s Series (Wirripang) – Accent-uate your teaching: interpreting and executing accents in piano repertoire |
| 12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45-15.15 | Workshops, Papers, Lecture-recitals and Masterclasses, with topics including: – Technical remediation for tertiary piano students – Preparing pianists for professional life – Implementing a multi-layered curriculum – ‘Practice Pie’: Getting parents involved in piano practice – Pop accompaniments for classical teachers – Teaching Australian repertoire: Piano Progressions (Wirripang) – The unknown piano music of Miriam Hyde – Masterclass with Konstantin Shamray |
| 15.15-15.45 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15.45-17.15 | Workshops, Papers, Lecture-recitals and Masterclasses, with topics including: – Women Pianists: A history in 50 Lives (discussion with Susan Tomes) – Interpreting Spanish musical idioms in Manuel de Falla’s piano music – Interpreting dots and dashes in music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven – Music theory beyond dead white Germans: A simple introduction to Neo-Riemannian analysis – Performance anxiety: are we alone? – Technique workshop: scales, arpeggios, broken chords, articulation and thumbs – Pieces or Songs? Encouraging Creativity in our Students |
| 17.30-18.30 | APPCA Biennial General Meeting |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Thursday 11 July
| 08.30-09.00 | Registration |
| 09.00-10.15 | Keynote: Professor Margaret Barrett |
| 10.15-10.45 | Morning Tea |
| 10.45-12.45 | Workshops and Lecture-recitals, with topics including: – Simultaneous Learning Approach (with Paul Harris) – Reinventing and recycling repertoire through interdisciplinary practice – No Book Beginners: A step-by-step framework for creative piano teaching (with Tim Topham) – Fit 4 Piano Etudes: 12 etudes by New Zealand Composers (Rae de Lisle) – Modern duo arrangements by the Neeman Piano Duo – Rediscovering Rebikov: Russian Romantic, Impressionist, and Modernist – Developing creativity through song-writing – Geoffrey Allen: Australia’s unsung champion of the piano sonata (with Murray McLachlan) |
| 12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45-15.15 | Workshop, Papers, Lecture-recitals and Masterclasses, with topics including: – Meeting the needs of today’s students – Music memorisation techniques, experience, and pedagogy – Eleonora Sivan’s imaginative pedagogical approach – The orchestral piano: let’s collaborate! – The Piano Preludes of Peter J Wilson – Young beginners: captivating the musical heart and imagination – The buddy lesson revolution: how to make your studio social |
| 15.15-15.45 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15.45-17.15 | Workshops, Lecture-recitals and Masterclasses, with topics including: – Streamlining piano practice through interleaving – Learning from neoroscience to optimise student engagement – Masterclass with Murray McLachlan – Piano music for the left hand – Teaching 20th Century piano techniques – The neurodiverse and neuro-spicy studio |
| 18.00-19.30 | Dinner // Break |
| 19.00-21.00 | Recital – Ian Munro & Aura Go: I was dancing with a gnat – introducing the piano duets of Ekaterina Komalkova |
Friday 12 July
| 08.30-09.00 | Registration |
| 09.00-10.15 | Keynote: Melanie Spanswick – Diversity in repertoire |
| 10.15-10.45 | Morning Tea |
| 10.45-12.45 | Workshops, Papers and Lecture-recitals, with topics including: – Brazilian piano music of Edmundo Villani-Côrtes – Improvisation and composition skills using Orff-Schulwerk teaching techniques – The AMEB Teaching Syllabus – All your piano teaching questions answered: Melanie Spanswick, Samantha Coates & Angela Turner panel discussion – Exploring Canada’s landscape through pedagogical piano duets – Technique from opposite perspectives (big and small) – Improvisation and composition games |
| 12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45-15.00 | Composition Prizes Concert and Presentation (with Ian Munro and Angela Turner) |
| 15.00-15.30 | Official Closing |