The pianist at AIMS is exposed to a variety of valuable educational experiences. Private instruction in piano and accompanying techniques, numerous sessions with vocal coaches, daily rehearsal experiences with singers and their teachers, classes in repertoire and style, language and diction study, master classes with professional coaches and accompanists, and intensive sight-reading sessions are featured. In addition, AIMS offers career counseling and exposure to the key European Agents and General Managers who come to Graz each summer in search of promising keyboard talent. Pianists enroll in either the Concert Studio or the Opera Studio of the Summer Vocal Institute, which may include the prestigious Audition Training Seminar. This program concentrates on the concert repertoire and teaches the techniques of coaching art song and playing chamber music.
Pianists work in collaboration with singers and coaches in the concert studio.
This program prepares the pianist to play and to coach the standard opera repertoire. It cover score reading and analysis, cueing techniques, teaching and performing recitative, playing orchestral transcriptions for rehearsal purposes and various stylistic problems. Pianists work in collaboration with singers and coaches in the Opera Studio.