Website of Ana Maria Bottazzi - "A Bravura Pianist at Heart" (New York Times) 

Coaching, Master Classes, Competitions

With a life overcoming the seemingly insurmountable, Dr. Bottazzi offers motivating speaking in combination with performance at the Piano Dr. Bottazzi enjoys helping developing musicians.  She does this by offering to promising students master classes, one-on-one coaching, and international competitions to allow showcasing accomplishment.

Master Classes entail..

One-on-one coaching provides...

Ms. Bottazzi has been associated with the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and with New York Uni­versity. She founded, together with her husband Bruno, the Germaine Pinault School of Music in Manhasset, New York, one of New York’s finest private music schools, and she has been its director for the past 37 years.

Competitions. In 1992 she established the International Piano Tape Competition, a competition judged strictly from audio and videotaped performances in which the winners receive cash prizes and share a concert at Weill Recital Hall. The sixth competition took place in 2003. Applications have already been received from 68 different countries for the next competition.