Welcome to Curwen Music!

Annie Jessey Curwen (aka Mrs. Curwen) spent her lifetime training students and teachers in piano and music. Please know I did not create this method of learning piano. I’ve done my best to take her wisdom and passion for teaching piano and have broken it apart hoping to allow anyone to take her method and use it.

Student  Lessons

These free video lessons are student focused.  They are designed for your child to watch with your active participation alongside them.  Before a student begins any of these lessons, you, the parent, will want to prepare by reading the instructions and reviewing the previous lesson’s homework with your child before watching the video lesson.

My hope is for these to be useful for families even when the parent does not have any background in piano. Also, consider reading the articles on the For Parents section of this site before starting a student.

Piano Teachers

If you are a parent with piano background or a piano teacher wishing to use Mrs. Curwen’s Method, this section will help guide you through Mrs. Curwen’s lessons, providing resources and tips along the way. I pull her method from her book and break it into individual topics. I also add the things I’ve learned teaching my own students using her method.

Shop

Mrs. Curwen’s lesson books are mostly out of print. With permission, we have digitized and printed new versions to make her work accessible to a culture that, in general, was not brought up playing the piano.

We will continue adding Mrs. Curwen’s lesson books to the shop. All of the books referenced in the Teacher’s Guide for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Step are now available. There are no books required to teach the Preliminary Lessons. Click here to read more about this journey of tracking down her books and creating reprints.

NEW TO THE SHOP!  The Teacher’s Guide, a reprint of the 31st edition