Welcome to the
Piano Project!
A platform for the teaching and ideas of pianist, teacher, and composer, Joe Bloom.
The map to a deeper connection in your musical life.
How To Use The Site
- Explore the Video Collection to eavesdrop on lessons in which real students work on real issues in real time.
- Check out Joe’s Blog to get more insight on specific issues, ranging from body tension to Joe’s insights on the best recorded performances.
About Joe
Joe Bloom embodied a unique understanding of the deepest traditions of Western Classical Music. His background, his own pianistic gifts, and a lifetime of teaching, performing, and accumulating tens of thousands of pages of notes on piano technique and musicality have made Joe a true virtuoso as a pianist and teacher.
“His ability to get results with students at all levels is truly amazing; he is universally loved” (Norman Derby, Dean, Bennington College)
“His breadth and depth of music and performance skills is phenomenal. His patient persistence brings out the best in us – gives us confidence where there may be too little, and stretches our limits. He never settles for less when he knows he can get more, doing it gently and with kindness.” (Dr. Margaret Harrington)
Latest From the Blog
Joe Bloom
“Dissociation” as a virtue
November 23,2021
Happy Thanksgiving
Practice notes for 11/23/21
Read MoreNotes on the Thumbs
November 21,2021
The thumb has always been my bete noire. Always a problem to me. Short, stumpy, ‘unworthy’ to join in with the other fingers, as in scales and chords. I’ve spent many years trying to come up with one solution after another to cope with the shortness of my thumb, “short” of, that is, putting my thumb on a rack and stretching it.
Here is what I have come up with today in the next chapter of my ongoing question to tame the thumbs.
Read MoreBach: the E Major Prelude and Fugue from Book Two
November 05,2021
A.B.’s lesson on 11/4/21
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