Piano Creativity
PianoCreativity.com is for busy piano teachers who want to integrate improvisation and composition without rewriting their whole curriculum.
Teachers know that teaching creativity at the piano is a great way to engage students and to enhance their musicianship, but many lack the confidence, experience and time to incorporate it into their lessons.
At PianoCreativity.com you’ll get:
expert reviews of useful creativity resources
creative activities that get even shy students improvising in minutes
posts that explore the bigger picture
About the author: Garreth Brooke
Written by Garreth Brooke (MA Oxon), PianoCreativity.com is trusted by hundreds of piano teachers from around the world and was nominated for a 2025 Art of Piano Teaching Award.
“[Garreth Brooke is] one of the brightest upcoming voices in piano education today” — Andrew Eales, PianoDao.com
“Piano creativity helped me through a family crisis as a teenager, when my severely depressed and anxious Mum made a serious suicide attempt. As she slowly healed, I turned to the piano—improvising and composing desperately sad pieces that became a profoundly helpful emotional outlet. That experience showed me the piano’s power to process grief and build resilience, a belief that now shapes my teaching.
I began piano lessons at age 6 in the UK, passing ABRSM Grades 1-8 with merit or distinction. I earned an MA in Music from the University of Oxford, studying under Wagner specialist Dr Roger Allen and writing on Britten’s operas with supervision by acclaimed academic and performer Professor Lawrence Dreyfus. My piano teaching qualifications include the AMTB Performance diploma (with distinction), Advanced Piano Specialist Certificate, and others from the Royal Conservatory of Music. I’m a Mental Health First Aider and member of EPTA UK, EPTA Deutschland, Curious Piano Teachers, and the Gordon Gesellschaft (the German Music Learning Theory society).
Today, I run a busy international piano studio in Frankfurt, specialising in piano performance, improvisation, composition, and theory for students of all backgrounds, abilities and ages. My compositions—streamed tens of millions of times and published by Breitkopf & Härtel and Editions Musica Ferrum—fuel my passion for creativity. I share these insights at PianoCreativity.com and have been featured on TopMusic, PianoDao, and EPTA’s Piano Professional.
Composition and improvisation lessons are my favourites—the time flies because students have great fun discovering the piano. I’ve created PianoCreativity.com to equip busy teachers with simple activities, resource reviews, and big-picture ideas for popular repertoire.”
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