FILM The grand old lady of piano pedagogy turns 90
On June 30, 1936, Åse Spering-Söderqvist was born on a small farm in Denmark. Ninety years later, she is one of Sweden's most influential piano pedagogues. In our portrait film, we get to know the person behind the motto "Look! Listen! Play!".
Åse Söderqvist-Spering has forty years as a published textbook author and twenty-five popular piano books to her name. Generations of pianists have begun their musical journey with the Pianogehör books. Her compositions and arrangements are always for the pianist, with musical joy and interplay in focus, as well as a characteristic sense of harmony and what actually sounds good at all levels.
– No one is unmusical, says Åse. Everyone can learn to play and sing, and the piano is a great tool. It gives me just as much joy to guide someone to success at a high concert level as it does to meet someone who has never played and to introduce music and interaction into their lives. It's so important!
Read more about Åse Söderqvist-Spering and see her books in the sheet music shop