With the development of higher education and the deepening of quality education, piano teaching plays an increasingly important role in art education in colleges and universities. However, in the process of piano playing, contemporary college students generally have the problems of lack of skills and stage anxiety, which seriously affects the teaching effect and students' artistic development. Through investigation, research and teaching practice, this paper deeply analyzes the basic characteristics of contemporary college students and the problems in the cultivation, and discusses the expression forms and causes of anxiety on stage. On this basis, this paper proposes scientific and systematic skill training methods and effective anxiety management scheme, and a complete teaching practice system is constructed. Research shows that targeted skill training and psychological adjustment, combined with diversified teaching practices, can effectively improve students' piano performance level, help them overcome their anxiety on stage, so as to achieve better artistic performance and personal growth.

Yajing Lei. The teaching practice exploration of contemporary college students' piano playing skill cultivation and stage anxiety management. Frontiers in Educational Research (2025) Vol. 8, Issue 1: 102-110. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080117.

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