Legendary Piano Expert Provides Transformative Piano Lessons.

TRANSFORMATIVE PIANO LESSONS with the Piano Expert

Piano time with Erica

Erica adores sharing piano time with both children and adults at any level of playing. Piano lessons with Erica are not only great fun… Her students also make remarkable progress at lightning speed. Most important, every lesson is filled with joy, excitement, encouragement, and wonder.

Piano classes with Erica incorporate all aspects of conventional musical education, including reading music, piano technique, theory, ear training, improvisation, composition, duets, music history, sight singing, conducting, etc.

Erica has a natural ability to custom-fit every aspect of her teaching to align with the way the student thinks. This talent is her “superpower.” No one seems to forget the experience.

One of Erica’s aspirations for her students is for them to be able to one day sit down and play a piano piece AT SIGHT: a piece they have never learned, or even heard before. This is a skill that eludes many, and one in which Erica as a music educator specializes.

Taking full responsibility for the progress of her students

Say that again? Erica takes full responsibility for facilitating the continued interest, enthusiasm, and improvement on the part of her students.

In fact, if a student is not thriving, Erica knows that’s ON HER. She believes wholeheartedly that it is her responsibility as the coach to understand the student, not the other way around. One of Erica’s unique talents is figuring out what the student might not understand. Then she begins to explain it in a different way. A way in which that particular student thinks, understands and speaks.

PURCHASING A PIANO WITH THE PIANO EXPERT

Erica Feidner is known worldwide as The Piano Matchmaker™ and for good reason. She is quite simply the best in the piano business at bringing together a client and the piano they are meant to own.

With characteristics that can range from shy and subtle to fiery and aggressive, every piano is “born” with its own unique personality. Central to Erica’s belief is that the soul of the piano should mirror the soul of its owner.

If you are looking to purchase a fine piano, be sure to reach out to Erica before going shopping. Buying a piano is a huge investment and it is easy to get it wrong. Allow Erica to guide you through the process. Most often, her fee is paid by the piano dealer. Give her a call today at (203)644-9197 to set up a time to chat.

Piano Matchmaker LLC is the best resource for identifying, locating, and introducing a client to their own exquisite piano. A piano crafted by one of the finest piano makers in the world. A piano they were meant to own and share as part of their legacy.

HOW DID ERICA BECOme a World-Class Pianist and Piano Teacher SHE IS TODAY?

When Did Erica Begin Teaching Piano Lessons?

Erica experienced a unique childhood shaped by music. Growing up in Old Bennington, Vermont with 4 siblings and music-loving parents, Erica lived in a home with 26 pianos.

By age 9, Erica was giving piano lessons.

Having been awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Juilliard School Pre-College Division as a pre-teen, Erica boarded a bus destined for New York City every Friday. Classes at Juilliard Prep took place all day Saturday. After classes, she made the return 5-hour trip back to Vermont that evening.

Summertimes enriched Erica’s teaching skills as her childhood home turned into a piano camp called Summer Sonatina. 45 children each week from around the world lived with and studied piano with her family of 7 pianists and educators. The piano camp was established in 1969 and continues to be ongoing to this day.

As a teen, Erica performed solo engagements with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Nashua Symphony Orchestra, and Albany Symphony Orchestra, among others. She went on to earn a BFA in Piano Performance from SUNY College at Purchase. There, she studied with Daniel Epstein and later with German Diez. During this time, she also continued teaching piano and refining her pianistic skills.

HOW DID ERICA BECOME THE WORLD-CLASS SALES EXPERT SHE IS TODAY??

Success Selling Pianos at Steinway & Sons, A Precursor to Becoming the Piano Matchmaker.

Following her graduation from CUNY Baruch in 1992, she joined Steinway & Sons in New York City full-time.

This is when she really began bringing music into other people’s lives.

From the time she began her tenure at the renowned Flagship Showroom at Steinway Hall located at 109 West 57th Street, Erica demonstrated an extraordinary ability to understand the sound and touch of each of the hundreds of pianos housed there.

Supplementing that understanding was the ability to retain each piano’s unique six-digit identifying serial number.

As a pianist, master piano instructor, and world-class salesperson, Erica has always been able to speak the language of a master musician and also understand the needs of the novice who wants to fulfill a desire to play.

Pulitzer Prize Journalist Writes “Matchmaker” in The New Yorker Magazine

Erica’s skills brought her to a level of success that led to unprecedented international coverage in the media spotlight.

Pulitzer Prize writer James B. Stewart purchased a Steinway & Sons Model B from Erica. The experience had enough of an impact on Mr. Stewart that he wrote an 8-page in-depth story about Erica which appeared in The New Yorker in August 2001.

The New Yorker, August 2001

The World of Business

“MATCHMAKER“

“Erica Feidner knows the piano you want“

Photograph by Elliott Erwitt of Magnum Photos

Erica, “The Piano Matchmaker,” featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine.

“Sell, Baby, Sell. 10 (Yes, 10!) Sales Tips from those who sell well all the time.”