The Foundation Course gave you fluency. You can play in any key, hear chord changes, and read basic notation. You have, in short, become a piano player. Now we will turn you into a musician: someone who hears a song before they play it, knows why it works before they understand how, and can play it in a way no one else would.
The intermediate programme is taught as four parallel disciplines: piano technique, harmonic language, rhythmic vocabulary, and ear training. The work is denser. The expectations are higher. Weekly homework, structured feedback, graded examinations, and at the end of each semester, a stage.
You will study modes and modal interchange. Diatonic seventh chords. Voicings used by jazz pianists, gospel pianists, and Bollywood arrangers. You will transcribe complete songs by ear: chord by chord, voicing by voicing, rhythmic decision by rhythmic decision. You will play in 7/8 and 5/8. You will navigate ii–V–I in any key, with three different voicing strategies, and improvise over each.
This is a graded programme. Not because grades matter for their own sake, but because real progress deserves a record. Most students stay for two or three semesters; some for five. The arc of the work is open-ended. So is your ceiling.
— Jason Zac, Faculty
