Style, taste, and tone
Excellent understanding of style, sensitive taste, pianistic facility, uniquely personal attention to the beauty of tone, and a sculptured sense of the shape of musical language: this is a picture of Róża’s students.
Natalia Troull, Moscow Conservatory Russia
Respect and camaraderie
During and between my visits to Róża’s studio, I was pleased to observe remarkable growth of young pianists thanks to her excellence and dedication as a teacher. This is made possible by the rare atmosphere of special care, respect and camaraderie Róża has always encouraged.
Eteri Andjaparidze, New York University and the Mannes School of Music, New York
The Polish piano school
Róża Kostrzewska Yoder stands in the tradition of the great Polish school of pianism, whose roots extend through individuals such as her professors Bronislava Kawalla and Jan Ekier, former Chair of Chopin International Piano Competition, to the Viennese school of Theodore Leschetizky. This school of teaching holds as a greatest value, in addition to developing professional competence at the highest level, the direct relationship between the master teacher and the student. This requires not only the passing on of musical knowledge but also the shaping of the personality of a young artist. Róża’s artistic activity results from this great tradition of European art and pedagogy.
Edward Wolanin, Chopin University of Music, Warsaw