Multiple Piano Festival

What I Think the Multiple Piano Festival Teaches
— from the BAMTA President

Of all the incentive programs I’ve used with my students over these last 50 years of teaching (Achievement Day, Guild Auditions, CSMTA Competitions, Federated Festival, my own Practicing Contest as well as 4 studio recitals per year), BAMTA’s Multiple Piano Festival has been the incentive event my students stick with the longest.  Even after they think they’ve become too grown up to sign up for Achievement Day, Guild Auditions, or the Federated Festival, and are too caught up with other activities to put in the time needed to prepare for competition events, they seem to want to play in Multiple Piano Festival.  Sometimes they even come back after they graduate from high school to play with the adults and alums.  There is something about the fun of making music up on that big stage, playing on a freshly tuned piano, with a dozen or more other pianists, that’s worth their time. I personally love collaborative playing the most. So, to me, the Multiple Piano Festival is simply:

THE MOST FUN I CAN HAVE PLAYING THE PIANO!
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Come join us for BAMTA’s 37^th MULTIPLE PIANO FESTIVAL.  You and your students can be lucky too!

Carol Wickham-Revier, NCTM
President of Boulder Area Music Teachers’ Association