Find Your Own Creativity Through Improvisation

A 75-minute FREE Piano Improvisation Webinar For Classical Pianists

Wednesday May 28 2025

from 12h-1h15 PM Eastern Time

via Zoom

If you are a classical pianist who finds it frustrating not to be able to improvise; if you also want to unblock your creativity in your playing and teaching without the theory overwhelm...then this Webinar is for you.

You may think...

✅I don't want to get bogged down in theoretical concepts in order to improvise

✅I don't know where to start

✅My little critical voice tells me that I won't be up to it

✅I teach and I don't know how to implement improvisation in my studio


That's why I created this piano improvisation

Webinar, because I've been there.

Here's what we will cover:

Getting started: feeling the pulse and connecting your fingers to your ear

Innovative pentatonic improvisations

Basic techniques and triggers to start an improvisation

The framework to experience a heart-felt and soulful "free improvisation"

Classical and pop chord progressions and Grooves, Q&A

Testimonials


" I attended an improvisation workshop for private teachers with Josée. This workshop met and exceeded my expectations. Very formative. Relaxed and conducive to creation. I learned a lot and my students will benefit from it. "

Alexandra Delgado,

piano teacher and singer-songwriter


" The improvisation training came at the right time and gave me the boost I needed. It flows like a little stream. I come up with a lot of ideas, naturally and easily. The children are even happier, it's perfect happiness. "

Christiane Boucher,director of "Les ateliers musicaux Christiane Boucher


" Mrs. Allard gave me back the taste for the piano! Thanks to her dynamic classes and her judicious advice, I took up the piano again with vigor and pleasure. Friendly advice: ask her to do improvisation, a unique experience! "

Florence Svoboda, student

Hi! I'm Josée


I am a pianist, improvisor, composer and piano teacher.

From a young age, I naturally composed my piano pieces.

I then pursued my classical training and obtained my Bachelor's degree from the Université de Montréal in 1993. I distinguished myself in various national competitions, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, where I won the first prize in 1987. I then gave several concerts, among others at the Montreal International Piano Festival, the Lachine International Festival and the Piano Nobile at Place des Arts. In 1988, I had the honor of performing Mozart's concerto for 3 pianos with the MSO alongside Alain Lefèvre and Charles Dutoit.


In parallel to my piano teaching for the past 30 years, I discovered the world of improvisation with a group of improvisers led by world-renowned cellist David Darling and this experience blew me away. It completely transformed my relationship to music and my instrument. Since then, I have released two improvisation recordings and published songs. In addition, three of my piano compositions are featured in the Vincent-d'Indy School of Music piano program. My creativity as a child returned.

I have given improvisation workshops in many institutions in Québec, Canada, sharing my love of creativity with music teachers and students . Seeing the benefits or this work, I want to help pianists transform their relationship to music and their instrument as well .

I am a member of the APMQMTA.