In these evocative short pieces, progressive études for the “Art of

Piano” learning, the author’s purpose is to introduce a systematic

approach for the development of technical and interpretative aspects
inherent to learning the piano at any age. The author intended to
evoke Schumann’s and Tchaikovsky’s Albums for the Young, as these
two methods represented the composers’ unconditional love for
childhood, their understanding of music education, and their thorough
knowledge of piano pedagogy.

This album draws its inspiration from the garden of human, artistic,
educational and scientific experiences, and turns them into a series of
pieces to be explored and “cultivated” during the process of piano
learning. The young pianist, with the aid of a qualified teacher, will
gradually learn to master polyphony, polyrhythms, polymeters,
unusual scales, phrasing, gesture, and so many other skills. This
album also promotes the development of coordination and the
learning of “molds” for performance of quick articulations, double
notes, chords and arpeggios, grace notes and ornaments, irregular
beats, intervals, and the independence between the hands.

Moreover, this method will contribute to obtaining exact and fluid

performances of a variety of rhythms and to the development of the
students’ harmonic and polyphonic senses, due to the systematic
practice, from the very first steps, of transposition, modulation, whole
steps and half steps, tetrachords, fifths, chromatic figurations, and the
ancient, classic and modern modes.

Fabio Luz is one of the most acclaimed Brazilian pianists of our time. For 40
years, he has developed an international career as a concert artist and teacher.
He began studying piano at age five, gave his first recital at age 10, and 7 years
later he graduated with honors from the State Conservatory of Sao Paulo. Mr. Luz
won several of the most significant national competitions in Brazil (the Bahia’s
National Prize, the Soloist Prize of the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the
Funarte Prize from Rio de Janeiro) and the Prize of the Art Critics Association. In
1978 he received the international Debussy Prize in Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
France, and in 1981, he obtained the Master of Music Degree “French Music
Diplome” in Paris. One year later he signed his first recording contract.

Mr. Luz has given over 700 concerts: in recital, in chamber music and as a soloist
with well-known orchestras, such as the National Symphonic of Rio de Janeiro, the
State Symphonic of São Paulo, the Philharmonic of Turin, the Symphonic of Radio
Ljubljana, the Philharmonics of Iasi and Ploiesti, etc. He is a regular visiting artist
at many distinguished institutions as the Universities of Sao Paulo, Kansas, Iowa,
Paris, Freiburg, the Conservatoires of Bern, Turin, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, the
Lisinski of Zagreb, the Biennale of Venezia, the Festival of Constance, the Gasteig
of Munique, the Società del Quartetto di Bergamo, the Circolo Catalani di Lucca
and the Amici della Musica di Pistoia, Villa Medici Il Vascello in Rome, the Teatro
Regio and the RAI Concert Halls in Turin, the Teatro São Carlos and Palácio Foz of
Lisbon, among others.

For a decade, Mr. Luz was the Artistic-Director of the Verdi Institute in Asti, Italy.
In the past few years, his Summer Master Classes have taken place at the
Castello di Cortanze (Asti) - Laboratori Musicali Internazionali Estivi (Melos Arte &
Musica)-, in Escola Tom sobre Tom (São Paulo), as well as in numerous other
locations. Since 2006, he teaches and coordinates the piano department at the
Accademia Superiore Città della Musica e del Teatro of Penne, Pescara (Italy).
Great composers of our time have written works for Fabio Luz, entrusting him with
premières of their works. Mr. Luz’ complete discography is on www.fabioluz.eu