At the same time, I emphasise the acquisition and expansion of pedagogical skills, as these are a fundamental and essential element for dealing with the subject matter and thus encourage the development of the student. This includes precise listening skills and exact forms of expression which are essential for practice and instruction. Subject matter can only be directly and clearly conveyed when the teacher is able to explicitly define it with precise words and sentences. Here it is helpful (and in some circumstances necessary) to constantly pose questions to the student, and oneself, regarding teaching methods. By learning to conduct an inner dialogue, self-reflection is trained and the student thus gradually becomes their own teacher (self-efficacy).

I place a great deal of value on building musical bridges between the “technical-artisanal” fields and their implementation in pieces; this means, for example, practising “just” a single scale, etude or a sustained note as an element of a musical phrase, with the greatest musical expression possible.  I pursue the goal of practice-orientated instruction for the consolidation and application of theoretical/stylistic knowledge, in order to merge these skills into one, which, with time, should become more than the sum of its parts.