If you’ve ever tried to find a video for a pedagogical piece, you have probably heard of the Univeristy of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Project. Here is their YouTube home:
https://www.youtube.com/@UIPianoPed/videos
They have posted over 3000 videos so far, with I think primarily just two pianists doing the recording.
Kinda puts our 40P challenge to shame, doesn’t it. (J/k!)
It looks like there haven’t been new additions in several years, but the faculty page of one of the pianists makes it sound like the project is ongoing, so hopefully they will continue. I certainly hope they do.
At the university where I teach, the music school is very highly regarded and as a result there are always tons of concerts and so on. But the focus of the music seems to be much more on performance than on pedagogy — at least that’s how it looks to me from the outside. So to my knowledge there’s nothing here that is so clearly focus on piano education, which is partly why the U of Iowa program caught my eye.
I wonder if there’s a write-up of the piano pedagogy project some where, I’d love to know how they chose the pieces, how much time they spent on the prep. It’s such a massive undertaking, and they already have so many recordings, it would have to be supported by a very systematic method of selection and preparation….
Anyway, if you haven’t seen their videos, it certainly is a nice resource.