Collaborative pianists power the machinery of our musical institutions. Every weekly voice lesson, many instrumental lessons, and most music theater, opera and choral rehearsals need a pianist. We’re everywhere: from the very first steps of learning music to its crowning performances. No music department could function for a single day without a small army of “collabs,” as they’re called.
Benched
Collaborative piano is essential to music education, but its practitioners are overworked and underpaid. What has to change?
