Emma Giral will “gradually” take over the Yamaha music school in Tarbes founded by her father Alain, almost 40 years ago.
For almost 40 years, the Yamaha musical club in Tarbes has been embodied through the smiling personality of Alain Giral, among 3,000 schools around the world which promote the prestigious brand, notably with Elton John and Paul Mac Cartney as shock ambassadors. .
The Yamaha musical club is much more than a music school, an innovative teaching method “based on imitation and listening. We learn directly on the instrument, in this case the piano, and we approach in a different way all the foundations of music.
In other words, it's a different way of music. The goal is to learn while enjoying playing” explains its creator. The Yamaha school in Tarbes is closely linked to a family history: that of Alain and his daughter Emma.
She has been playing the piano since the age of four
Introduced by her father, of course, the 25-year-old young woman has been playing the piano… since the age of four. “I started with musical awakening and I never left my father’s school” she says. The young woman, who is pursuing a Master's degree in business law at the University of Pau, has always kept in the back of her mind the idea of taking up the torch (or rather the keyboard) from her father.
“I passed the grades and the teacher entrance exam of the Yamaha foundation (which regularly provides educational and technical training for its teachers) and in parallel with my courses at university and my work-study university course, I has been giving private piano lessons at home for three years. I also perfected my musical training at the Pau conservatory for a year” explains Emma Giral.
Today, the young woman is finally ready to “gradually” take over the school founded by Alain Giral, four decades ago. But his father does not wish to retire immediately and will watch over him for a period which has not yet been determined. The young woman will be present at the open day on Saturday January 11 and should begin her teaching “from the second half of January, mainly on Saturdays”.
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