HOUSTON, Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — SOFT WAY TO MOZART or SOFT MOZART is a patented computerized piano curriculum, examined at 13th International Academic Conference held by Peter Tchaikovsky's music school.
During the first week of December at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Academic Association for the Methods of Pedagogical Education, the Academic Council for Art Education and the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University held their annual conference with the aim to discuss the actual problems of music education and professional music education in the complex system of art.
A study of the computerized music curriculum SOFT MOZART was presented on the first and last day of the conference by 19 speakers from 15 different countries. Music educators from Australia, Cuba, Chile, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, UK and USA presented their reports on using SOFT MOZART with variety of venues and with a broad range of students. Venues included universities, day care centers, private and public schools and home schools. Students using the program ranged from prodigies to children with special needs and included different ages – from early education to college levels.
"SOFT MOZART dramatically accelerates the learning process on the piano, as well as provides unprecedented motivational impetus for musical training worldwide," experts reported. The presenters also mentioned that the system is especially important for the children with special needs. Dramatic improvement of focus, attention span, fine motor skills and speech development of children with Down syndrome, Autism, ADD and other problems were notarized and video documented.
Hellene Hiner, the author and inventor of SOFT MOZART, addressed the conference that the system was developed on the same foundation that the Russian School of Music has used for more than 100 years. The only difference being that SOFT MOZART uses interactive technology and her patented Elementary and Interactive Grand Staff visual aid.
About the SOFT MOZART invention: U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) has issued patent No. 7,629,527 for Ms. Hiner's machine and method of teaching music literacy through the piano.
About St. Petersburg Conservatory: The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory is the world-renowned music school that was founded in 1862. The school alumni have included Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Rudolf Tobias and Dmitri Schostakovich.
About Herzen University: The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia is founded in 1797. The Educational and Methodical Laboratory Music & Computer Technologies at the Herzen University is using SOFT MOZART to prepare music teachers for their vocational training via the Internet.
About Hellene Hiner: Ms.Hiner is an American musicologist and music educator. She was born in Russia and raised in Ukrainian. For more information, please, visit the following links:
Conference reports: http://pianolearningsoftware.com/pages/soft-way-to-mozart-science
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