Gilbert Cook
Advanced piano lessons
In the lineage of Franz Liszt, through Marie Jaëll and Eduardo del Pueyo.
For advanced amateurs and professional pianists wishing to develop their pianistic technique and musicality.
The path
Gilbert Cook studied in Brussels in the class of Eduardo del Pueyo to learn the method of Marie Jaëll, who was a pupil of Franz Liszt. Marie Jaëll analysed Franz Liszt's playing, touch and sonorities and turned it into a method.
Many pianists studied this method with Eduardo del Pueyo, several of whom won prizes at the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium.
Gilbert Cook also studied in Paris with Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume for baroque music, then two years in America and ten years in Geneva with Harry Datyner, who was a pupil of Edwin Fischer.
“A piano teacher for over 40 years, I still have the passion and the pleasure of teaching and supporting my students as they grow.”Gilbert Cook
The technology of Franz Liszt
Gilbert Cook's teaching is based on the “technology” — the methods of application — of Franz Liszt.
Advanced lessons to develop pianistic technique and musicality. To increase your ability to play the piano, you need to receive new input — advice, principles, methods — which you simply have to understand and put into practice.
These lessons aim to help pianists solve their technical problems and, in doing so, give them the freedom to express themselves. There is always room to improve.
- Knowledge of natural movement to acquire the fundamentals of technique.
- Methods of work.
- Knowing how to play very fast.
- Relaxation of the different limbs.
- Methods for memory.
- Playing with greater lightness.
- Modern teaching methods.
- Great independence of the fingers.
- Perfect coordination between the two hands.
- Exercises to release tension at the piano.
- The different touches at the keyboard.
- Emotion in interpretation.
- Exercises to build strength in the fingers.
- How to work on sound layers.
- Exercises for more beautiful sonorities.
Practical details
- First lesson
- About two hours, free of charge.
- Location
- At the teacher's home, in Martigny (Valais).
- For whom
- Advanced amateurs and professional pianists.
- Contact
- By telephone only.
Get in touch
Gilbert Cook does not check online messaging. Please contact him only by calling him directly.
+41 79 898 05 94Lesson location — Martigny, Valais, Switzerland