Brigitte Bouthinon-Dumas

Since then, she has taught piano at several French institutions, as a teacher holding the Certificat d'Aptitude, notably at the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental d'Angoulême [fr], where French pianist Claire Désert says she remembers "a natural, sensitive and generous musical education and instrumental approach",[2] then at the conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris [fr] where she worked as a teacher until her retirement in 2012.

The CNSM of Paris and Lyon also invite the pedagogue and pianist to express her opinion as a member of the jury of competitions and exams, and finally the recruitment of new piano teachers also makes use of her presence.

The French pedagogue and musician will develop these tools in reaction to her own early childhood path in order to avoid her students to suffer the shortcomings of a certain more academic, less natural way of teaching music.

Bouthinon-Dumas summarizes part of her vision of pedagogy in an essay that can reincarnate in the 21st century what interpretative treatises dear to the virtuosos and pedagogues of the 18th and 19th centuries represented (notably François Couperin's L'art de toucher le clavecin and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Essai sur la manière véridique de jouer d'un instrument à clavier[5]).

We understand here that the ultimate end does not lay so much in perfecting technical keys for piano performance, as in putting these tools to use in a sound ideal, whose author leaves the reader totally free.