Australia's University of Melbourne houses a large center of higher-level piano education and research. Comprising a salaried staff of five —one professor, two associate professors, and two lecturers 1—and some twelve sessional instructors, its student cohort across all available programs generally numbers between 150 and 2...

A well-trained pianist is a musician fundamentally chained to notational accuracy—one of the prime pianistic obsessions. In traditional pianistic modes of learning, embracing tonally centered repertoire, accuracy of notational acquisition has absolute primacy. Pianists at all levels of accomplishment are guided by an inherent, perhaps inherite...