The Golandsky Institute Offers Educational Opportunities at the 2010 Panama Jazz Festival

The Golandsky Institute was established in 2003 to bring high-level training in the Taubman Approach to the musical community. This Approach has proven to be highly effective in the resolution of technical and artistic limitations, as well as in curing and preventing repetitive stress injuries in musicians.

Edna Golandsky, Artistic Director, is the leading exponent of the Taubman Approach. She has earned wide acclaim throughout the United States and abroad for her extraordinary ability to solve technical problems and for her penetrating musical insight. She received both her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Julliard School, following which she continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman.  As she broadened and deepened her knowledge over the years, Edna Golandsky has developed new material that illuminates the nature of artistic performance. Some of the results include a highly acclaimed series of DVDs: The Art of Rhythmic Expression, The Art of Concert Preparation, and The Forgotten Lines: Lines that Support, Surround, and Intensify the Melody.

Danilo Perez, internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and founder/president of the Panama Jazz Festival, came upon her work several years ago. He found the benefits to be extraordinarily beneficial for himself and his students.  Excited about bringing this body of knowledge to the Panama Jazz Festival, he invited Edna Golandsky to give master classes and lectures at the Festival in 2009. They were a great success, and he has invited her to return in 2010.  He hopes eventually to have the Golandsky Institute in Residence at the Panama Jazz Festival.

At the Panama Jazz Festival in 2010, Edna Golandsky will offer a week-long program of daily master classes for jazz and classical pianists as well as other instrumentalists, emphasizing the application of the Taubman Approach to build technical ease and to explore musical interpretation. Five to six private lessons will be given, as well as a class on how to properly use computer and Blackberry keyboards so as not to harm the playing. These are classes and lessons for performers, teachers, and students of all levels and all instruments.