Pearlman Music School
Piano · every age, every ability

Sixty years at the piano.

Lessons that begin with a feeling for the music — playing from memory, playing by ear, finding your own hands on the keys. In your home, my studio in Boca Raton, Florida or anywhere in the world online.

Taught by Maestro Benjamin Pearlman.

Boca · Delray

visitors

To book an appointment, call 917-282-3837

Watch

The Maestro at the piano.

The Follow-Up Film — Benjamin Pearlman

Trouble playing? Watch on YouTube

The Water Piano — a short film

Trouble playing? Watch on YouTube

Sixty Years at the Piano — Maestro Benjamin Pearlman

Trouble playing? Watch on YouTube

Shorts

Benjamin at the piano · Free intro lesson

Trouble playing? Watch on YouTube

Sixty Years at the Piano

Trouble playing? Watch on YouTube

A PearlQuant × Pearlman Music School production.

What we teach

Lessons for every age and every ability.

Every student is met where they are. Beginners and returning players, children and adults, classical and by-ear — the aim is the same: to make the piano feel like your own voice, quickly and joyfully.

  • Play from memory — recall methods that free you from the page.
  • Play by ear — hear a melody and find it, on piano or any instrument.
  • InstaMode™ improvisation — rapid chord recognition for real-time playing.
  • Specialized teaching — proven methods for students on the autism spectrum and with developmental differences.
  • For teachers, too — advanced training for piano instructors.
60

Years of teaching

A lifetime at the keyboard, refined into a method.

All

Ages & styles

Children to adults; classical to improvisation.

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In-home or online

Lessons in your home, or over FaceTime / Skype anywhere.

By ear & by heart

Feel the music first; the reading follows.

A student of the school at the piano
A student at the piano.
Music for every ability

Where every ability finds a voice.

For more than sixty years, Benjamin Pearlman has taught students of every ability — with patient, specialized methods for those on the autism spectrum and with developmental differences. Music meets each person where they are, and gives them a way to be heard.

The keyboard doesn’t ask where you started. It asks only that you play — and every student, in their own time and their own hands, learns that they can.

Maestro Benjamin Pearlman at the piano
Maestro Benjamin Pearlman
“Learn to play from memory, and to hear a piece of music and simply play it — that is when the piano becomes yours.”
The teacher

Maestro Benjamin Pearlman

Benjamin Pearlman has been performing and teaching piano since the age of sixteen. Over sixty years he has developed a way of teaching that reaches every kind of learner — including specialized methods for students on the autism spectrum and with developmental delays, meeting each one with patience and music.

The gift runs in the family. Benjamin is the son of Eve Pearlman, a piano teacher, and Leonid Solomon Pearlman, director of the Odessa Conservatory of Music (1938–1963) and an early champion of braille sheet music for blind musicians. During the Second World War, Leonid helped defend Odessa for four months and trained soldiers in the proper handling of their weapons. Three generations, one conviction: that anyone can be brought to the music.

Leonid Solomon Pearlman (standing, right) teaching accordion at the Odessa Conservatory of Music
Leonid Solomon Pearlman (standing, right) at the Odessa Conservatory of Music — teaching accordion, and championing braille notation for blind musicians.
Students who went on

Aditya Nihalani

Children’s Orchestra 2007 Junior Discovery Winner, Concerto Extravaganza.

Elisabeth Nosal

Piano teacher at the Ringwood School of Music.

Watch & listen

The concert, and the method

Benjamin Pearlman live at the grand piano — and lessons in the InstaMode™ method, from his own channel. Tap any to play right here.

The concert · live at the grand piano

The InstaMode™ method · from Benjamin Pearlman’s channel

More on Benjamin Pearlman’s channel ↗

Open for lessons

Begin at the keyboard.

Reach out and say hello — new students of every age and ability are welcome, in person or online.

Prefer to call? (917) 282-3837  ·  bigbenpearlman@gmail.com