Boyanna Toyich

Piano, Performance Skills, Community Outreach Performance Master Class
 
MusBac, ARCT, Post-Graduate studies in Performance/Pedagogy/Psychology of Teaching (Italy, France, Austria)
 
e-mail: boyanna@sympatico.ca

Boyanna Toyich is an internationally recognized motivational and inspirational speaker and has been instrumental in developing the talents of students, teachers, and performing artists for over thirty years.

A graduate at the age of fourteen of the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto and subsequently of the Faculty of Music University of Toronto, she is the recipient of numerous national and international scholarships and awards. Her post-graduate work includes studies in piano performance and pedagogy, the psychology of teaching/learning and performance anxiety management in France, Austria and Italy.

Boyanna Toyich is an active international adjudicator, lecturer, master class teacher, juror and workshop clinician and has developed and presented many programs for students as well as professional development seminars for teachers across Canada, the USA and Europe.She also coaches musicians and athletes on techniques of coping with performance anxiety and is the architect of “Performing Skills Workshop” (copyright Boyanna Toyich 1983). She was contributing editor for several RCM publications of graded repertoire, co-authored “Keys to Sight Reading and Musicianship” and has authored many articles related to creativity and music, pedagogy and performance anxiety management which have appeared in various music publications (Clavier Magazine, Crescendo, Mentor, OPUS).

Boyanna Toyich is Artistic Director and President & CEO of Toyich International Projects (TIP), a non-profit registered charity created to further the artistic development of musicians, teachers and students internationally. Activities have included very successful Monster Concerts (10 pianos, 20 pianists, 200 fingers) presented in Canada and Italy by Faculty of Music students and the Educational Conference for Performers (www.tipromeconference.com) which is held each summer in Rome, Italy.