Joyce Di Donato, “lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano,” is my model for trilling. In an embedded you tube video, the opera singer emphasizes the undulating character of a beautifully executed trill that leans on the upper note. (Too often pianists deliver a robotic stream of alternating notes that’s shapeless and out of breath, ignoring an internal flow and contour) If we listen to birds chirping with their never-ending auditory appeal, we might gain valuable insight into trill production.
Here’s Joyce working on trills with a student at the Royal College of Music in London. It’s a nice point of departure for a musical transfer to the piano.
Below is a brief supplementary trill instruction followed by my teacher snatches from a LIVE interchange with an adult student at her Walnut Creek home. In the latter, I demonstrate on her magnificent vintage Steinway A. (1911)
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My teacher examples, that are LIVE lesson recorded excerpts are meant to assist the student’s practicing during the week:
Original Content: Piano Technique: Trills and the vocal model
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