Online Lesson Videos
Piano Teaching Videos
Princeton Piano Classes Online
Learn how to utilize your back muscles to support your arms and avoid neck and shoulder pain when playing piano!
Sitting at the piano with an Alexander Technique perspective in mind.
How to use Alexander Technique instead of focusing on posture at the piano.
An introduction to our online setup, showing what Princeton Piano Classes Online would look like to a student.
Here’s a lesson excerpt where we discuss how to articulate 16th notes, and also how we need to interpret what's on the page in this situation.
How to use our arms without creating pain in the neck and shoulders.
Here’s a lesson excerpt where we we discuss use of the arm to aid the fingers in quick-moving, arpeggiated passages.
Here’s one way that Alexander Technique is incorporated into Princeton Piano Classes Online.
Performance Videos
Opera and Art Song
“Dich teure Halle” from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
Recorded live on June 23, 2019 with soprano Sarai Cole as part of a benefit concert for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) at Pennington United Methodist Church in Pennington, NJ.
“Non più mesta” from La Cenerentola by Rossini
Recorded live on Oct. 5, 2017 as part of an Artists-in-Residence recital at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with mezzo-soprano Jessica Renfro.
“Von ewiger Liebe” by Johannes Brahms
Recorded live on Oct. 5, 2017 as part of an Artists-in-Residence recital at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with mezzo-soprano Jessica Renfro.
New Music and Premieres
“Witchgrass” by David Martynuik
This premiere performance was recorded live on Oct. 5, 2017 as part of an Artists-in-Residence recital at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with mezzo-soprano Jessica Renfro. "Witchgrass" is from David Martynuik's cycle "Garden of Life", which we premiered at this performance.
“Inauguration” by Stephen Caldwell
Written for trio@play by Stephen Caldwell, this was recorded live on March 25, 2012 at New Jersey City University.
“In the Still of the Night” by Laurie Altman
Written for trio@play by Laurie Altman, this was recorded live on March 25, 2012 at New Jersey City University.
“Dance Around the Point” by Thomas Carlo Bo
Written for trio@play by Thomas Carlo Bo, this was recorded live on March 25, 2012 at New Jersey City University.
Testimonials
”It is always wonderful to work with Lynda Saponara in performances of my chamber works. Her flawless technique, nuanced dynamic instincts, insightful understanding of contemporary music, cheerful countenance, and cooperative attitude with her peers in bringing out the best results in performance are exceptional.”
—Robert Young McMahan, composer, Professor Emeritus, The College of New Jersey
“Lynda Saponara is a deeply talented and sensitive musician. Intuitive, a skilled listener, and an articulate questioner, Lynda approaches rehearsal and performance as a true collaboration. Lynda is adventurous in rehearsing and performing new music, technically adept and musically wise. She is a consummate professional and a joy to work with.”
—David Martynuik, composer
With clarinetist Kenneth Ellison at our premiere performance of “Three Tweets” by Robert Young McMahan at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York City on July 28, 2018.
Post-performance with Sarai Cole.