The comprehensive curriculum is tailored to each student’s needs, and constantly adjusted to their ever-changing abilities, personalities, aspirations, and circumstances. Dr. Horváth loves the variety and challenge of working with an exceptionally diverse student population. The majority of students take lessons for personal enrichment or therapeutic purposes but some are aspiring performers or music educators, or young professionals with music degrees.

Dr. Horváth’s primary goal in teaching is to prepare students for a life-long enjoyment of music making, while also contributing to their personal, intellectual, emotional, and creative development. The focus is on musical expression, right from the start. Well-rounded musicianship skills and an efficient, comfortable, injury-preventive piano technique are cultivated as the foundation for the ability to move hearts by playing music, artistry, and creativity.  

Students of The Art of Piano have won numerous piano competitions and scholarships at the state and regional levels. No other piano studio in a fifty-mile radius has matched their success. The studio holds five performance events a year, and students are also encouraged to participate in additional performances and graded achievement programs. They also have a unique opportunity to gain insight into historical musical styles by experimenting with a variety of modern and period keyboard instruments.

The academic year is divided into two long semesters and an optional, flexible summer session, offering nearly year-around instruction. Private lessons and the occasional group classes are generally taught on weekdays, while special events take place on weekends.

The studio is located just across from Rochester Community Park, with quick and easy access from Springfield. Most lessons are taught in person, but the studio’s excellent setup for remote instruction enables students to switch between in-person and remote lessons any time.