Feature Articles
Published Articles by Robert
Might We Accompany Each Other? How Audiences and Presenters Perceive the Singer/ Pianist Dynamic - written for VOICEPrints, Journal of the New York Singing Teachers' Association; Volume 18, Number 4 March-April 2021
Is The Music Conservatory Model Obsolete? - written for the California Music Teacher journal, Volume 43 No. 2, Fall 2019
I Am Not An Accompanist - written for the California Music Teacher journal, Volume 41 No. 2, Fall 2017
Written About Robert
Mainly Piano - Interview with Kathy Parsons. A reflection on 25 years since the Prokofiev Competition; February 10, 2021
Meet the Artist - Interview with Frances Wilson for the Cross Eyed Pianist; March 9, 2020
Interview with Virtuoso Pianist, Robert Thies - Pastimes for a Lifetime Art and Piano School; Linda Wehrli, Founder; April 26, 2019
The Man with the Mozart - Buffalo News, The Gusto Blog, Mary Kunz Goldman, July 13, 2011
Tokafi - Discover Your Music - 15 Questions to Robert Thies - Tobias Fischer, July 16, 2007
"Piano Gold Medals No Guarantee of Career Success" - Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2001
"Pianists hope to become noteworthy at institute" - St. Louis-Dispatch, November 26, 2000
"A Hub for the Arts" - USC Trojan Family Magazine, Autumn 1997
"A Concert for the Home Crowd" - USC Chronicle, April 14, 1997
USC grad captures Prokofiev piano prize - USC Chronicle, January 16, 1996
"Tipping the Scales" - Peninsula People, October 1996
"A Profession of Passion" - Piano & Keyboard, July/August 1996
"Another American Pianist Invades Russia, Successfully" - Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1995
"A Grade Notion" - Los Angeles Times, April 06, 1994