Edna Golandsky is a world-renowned piano pedagogue, the leading authority on the Taubman Approach, and the co-founder of The Taubman Institute and The Golandsky Institute. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied under Jane Carlson, Rosina Lhévinne, and Adele Marcus. After graduating from Juilliard, she studied with Dorothy Taubman for several decades.
Ms. Golandsky has earned worldwide acclaim for her pedagogical expertise, extraordinary ability to solve technical problems, and her penetrating musical insight. She has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Strad, Piano Magazine, Classical Music, Jazz Times, and the Clavier Companion, among others. To learn more about Ms. Golandsky and the Taubman Approach, visit ednagolandsky.com.
Edna Golandsky is the leading exponent of the Taubman Approach. She has earned wide acclaim throughout the United States and abroad for her extraordinary ability to solve technical problems and for her penetrating musical insight. She received both her bachelor of music and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, following which she continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman for over three decades.
Performers and students from around the world come to study, coach, and consult with Ms. Golandsky. A pedagogue of international renown, she has a long-established reputation for the expert diagnosis and treatment of problems such as fatigue, pain, and serious injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, focal dystonia, thoracic outlet syndrome, tennis and golfer’s elbow, and ganglia. She has been a featured speaker at many music medicine conferences. She is an adjunct professor of piano at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is also currently serving on the faculty of the Lindemann Program of the New York Metropolitan Opera.
Ms. Golandsky has lectured and conducted master classes at some of the most prestigious music institutions in the United States, including the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Oberlin Conservatory. Internationally, she has given seminars in Canada, Holland, Israel, Korea, Panama, and Turkey. In 2001, she was a guest lecturer at the European Piano Teachers’ Association in Oxford, England, and in July 2003 she conducted a symposium in Lecce, Italy. In August 2010, she gave a master class and judged in a piano competition at the Chatauqua Festival. She was a guest presenter at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in 2003 and 2009 and was engaged to return in October 2010. In 2011, she was a guest presenter at the Music Teachers National Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the Piano Teachers Congress of New York; and the Music Teachers Association of California. She gave week-long workshops at the Panama Jazz Festival at 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2014. In 2012, she presented as a part of the New York University Steinhardt Master Class series and at the Music Teachers Association of California annual convention in San Diego.
For several years, Edna Golandsky worked with violinist, Sophie Till, who came seeking relief from long-standing problems. This has led to the development of a comprehensive application of the Taubman work to string instruments.
In the last few years, Edna Golandsky’s activities have included workshops at the Forum Musikae festival in Spain, as well as in London, California, North Carolina, and multiple cities in China. She has given webinars with the Music Teachers National Association, the Music Teachers Association of California and Washington, a course to Master’s degree students at the Musikeon in Madrid, a series of lectures on the leading classical music platform ToneBase, and virtual presentations to pianists and teachers around the world on a regular basis. She has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Strad, Piano Magazine, Classical Music, Jazz Times, and the Clavier Companion, among others.
Edna Golandsky is the person with whom Dorothy Taubman worked most closely. In 1976, Ms. Golandsky conceived the idea of establishing an Institute where people could come together during the summer and pursue an intensive investigation of the Taubman Approach. She encouraged Mrs. Taubman to establish the Taubman Institute, which they ran together as co-founders. As the face of the Taubman Approach, Ms. Golandsky discusses each of its elements in a ten-volume video series. Mrs. Taubman has written, “I consider [Edna Golandsky] the leading authority on the Taubman Approach to instrumental playing.”
In 2003, along with co-founders John Bloomfield, Robert Durso, and Mary Moran, Edna Golandsky founded The Golandsky Institute in order to expand the reach of the Taubman Approach through organizing year-round workshops and seminars for pianists and teachers. With her co-founders, she developed a Taubman Teacher Certification Program to standardize the expertise of Taubman teachers at the highest level possible. She and her co-founders also developed a highly successful streaming program to impart information on the Taubman Approach online to Taubman enthusiasts.
As Edna’s knowledge deepened over the years, she continued to develop new instructional material. In conjunction with the Golandsky Institute, she has further developed the Taubman Approach in the three-DVD set, The Art of Rhythmic Expression, which has been praised worldwide; and the two-DVD set, The Forgotten Lines: Lines that Support, Surround, and Intensify the Melody. This material, along with the material that Edna has posted on her own website and on YouTube over the years, has been viewed by over a million pianists.
