EDITION PETERS THE Complete Pianist By Penelope Roskell

On 20 February 2020, Edition Peters launched Penelope Roskell’s The Complete Pianist: from healthy technique to natural artistry. The most comprehensive book ever written on piano playing and the most significant piano technique to appear for many decades, it has something new to offer to all pianists and keyboard players – student and teacher, professional and amateur.

The Complete Pianist offers a new and unique approach to piano playing, in which Penelope Roskell shares a lifetime’s experience of teaching, performing, and ground-breaking research into healthy piano playing. The book contains more than 500 pages of text, links to 300 videos, and 250 exercises newly devised by the author.

Roskell’s book guides pianists through the early stages of learning a piece, through all the technical challenges and interpretative choices, towards inspired performance. Each new aspect of playing is addressed through a series of practical exercises which proceed, step-by-step, from the basics towards more advanced applications. Penelope demonstrates all the musical and technical points herself in videos accessible by smartphone, tablet, or computer.