Maestria

For pianists who stopped playing

You haven't lost the piano yet.

Your hands still know the three pieces you learned at fourteen, and nothing after them. Everything you've been offered since was written for a child, or sits years out of reach. This is one piece, written for the hands you have tonight. Not for anyone else's.

Come back to the piano · $249

Stripe · one-time · no subscription

5 founding pieces left · then $497

10 pieces a month, each checked by ear.

James McNeill Whistler, At the Piano, 1859

You know this evening

You sit down. You play the same three pieces. You close the lid.

They come back exactly as you left them at fourteen, mistakes included. You don't finish one. Twenty minutes, then months of walking past it. Not because your hands are gone: because nothing in front of them is both yours and possible. The pieces you want are years away. The pieces you're offered were written for a six-year-old.

“Sometimes I feel like it's too late.”

A founding member, 56. Piano from twelve to seventeen. Intermediate, in her word: only.

It isn't too late. It was never your hands. It was the repertoire.

Listen to one · Nocturne No. 1 · from the Maestria app

Verin

The workshop is hers after dark, when the men who sign her maps have gone home. Tonight, under the shore she has drawn, she adds a second coastline in white ink, invisible until the paper is held against a lamp. Her own line, under theirs.

One of the forty-five pieces in the Maestria app, each written from one life. Yours will be written the same way, from yours, for your hands.

What changes

One piece, written for the hands you have now.

Tell us your story: when you started, when you stopped, what you miss. Seven days later, a piece exists that did not exist before. Written at the level you can play tonight, not the level you had at seventeen and not the one a method wants to sell you. Beautiful enough to sit down for. Short enough to play to the last bar. And yours: no one else will ever play it.

The first week

Eight bars in seven evenings. Then the whole piece, once, completely.

Fifteen minutes a night. That is the whole practice.

The Eight Bars Promise

If your hands can't play the first eight bars after seven evenings, we rewrite it one level easier. The piece adapts to you, never the other way round.

The Sounds-Like-Me Promise

If it doesn't sound like your story, tell us what is missing. We write it again, up to twice. It isn't finished until you say it's you.

In seven days

Everything you need to sit down tonight, and the nights after.

Not a file. An edition of your life: six things made from your story, that no one else will ever have.

The edition, standing under a lamp: the Family Edition, the engraved score, the recording with its vinyl, the Liner Notes, the Slow Hands Edition and the Maestria app. — Verin's edition. Yours will carry your name.

Your PieceThe recording. Something worth sitting down for, and no one else has it.

The ScoreEngraved at your level, with your name on it. Real notation, no coloured dots.

The Liner NotesYour story, written like the notes inside a record.

Slow Hands EditionYour piece at sixty percent of the tempo, each hand alone, for the first evenings.

The Family EditionA second score with a dedication page, for the one you will teach it to.

A Year of MaestriaA new piece every four evenings in the app, so there is always something to sit down for.Worth $99.99

How it happens

Ten minutes of your story. Seven days later, your piece.

You tell your story.
Right after payment, a short page: when you started, when you stopped, what you miss, and what your hands can play today. About ten minutes.
Your piece is written.
Composed from your story by the Maestria composition engine, the one behind the forty-five pieces in the app, then checked by ear before it reaches you.
It's yours in seven days.
The recording, the score, the Liner Notes, both editions, and your year of Maestria, on the email you paid with.

The piece your grandchildren will ask you to play.

The Piece of Your Life

Founding price, for 5 more pieces.

$249~~$497~~

5 founding pieces left · then $497

10 pieces a month, each checked by ear: when the month is full, yours begins the next.

Come back to the piano

Stripe · one-time · no subscription

Your piece, written from your story, for your hands
The score, at your level, your name on it
The Liner Notes
Slow Hands Edition
The Family Edition, with a dedication page
A Year of Maestriaworth $99.99
The Eight Bars and Sounds-Like-Me promises
Delivered in seven days

TodayThe Piece of Your Life$249, once

By invitationThe Last Bar Recital$12,000 · played to the last bar, in a hall, for the people who never heard you Made to orderThe Heirloom Grandfrom $190,000 · a grand piano that carries your story

Questions

I only ever got to intermediate. Is that enough?

It is exactly enough. Right after payment you tell us, in plain words, what your hands can play today: from a simple melody with chords to a romantic nocturne. The piece is written there. If the first eight bars are still out of reach after a week, we rewrite it one level easier.

It's been thirty years.

Your hands remember more than you think. People who sit back down are usually surprised by how much comes back. What they lack is something to play. That is what arrives in seven days.

I've tried the apps.

So has everyone who ends up here. This is not an app, a method or a course. Nothing listens to you through a microphone. It is one piece of music, written for you, on paper and in a recording. Your year of Maestria comes with it because a piano needs something new on it, not because you need teaching.

Who writes my piece?

Your piece is composed from your story by the Maestria composition engine, the one behind the forty-five pieces in the app, then checked by ear before it is delivered. It is never given to anyone else.

What if it doesn't sound like me?

Tell us what is missing and we write it again, up to twice. The two promises give rewrites, not refunds: a piece written for one person cannot be resold, so payments are final once work on your piece has begun. Everything else is in our Terms.

How long does it take?

Seven days from the moment we receive your story. If you need it sooner, you can ask for it within seventy-two hours at checkout.

Can I share it?

It is yours to play, record and share with the people you love. It is licensed for personal, non-commercial use.

How do I get my year of Maestria?

Sign in to Maestria with the email you used at checkout. No account yet? Create one with that email and write to contact@maestria.app: we unlock it within a day.

And if one day I want to play it for them?

To the last bar, in a hall, for the people who never heard you: that is The Last Bar Recital, by invitation.

Not ready for your own piece yet? A Year of Maestria: a new piece every four evenings, written at a level adult hands can play, with its story. $99.99, once, for twelve months.

Get a year of Maestria · $99.99