Piano Studio Update: Air Conditioning
After 2018's long, hot, summer when temperatures broke records, I decided not to take any chances with ensuring the [...]
May 2019
ABRSM Exam Distinction
I recently had the great pleasure of presenting my pupil Lawrie with his ABRSM Piano Grade 1 Distinction certificate. [...]
April 2019
Pianists at the BBC Proms 2019
The BBC Proms is a world-famous celebration of classical and contemporary music. The new season starts on Friday 19th [...]
March 2019
Shine Festival 2019 – Piano Competition cancelled
Shine Festival 2019 I am sad to report that the Piano Competition section of this year's Shine Festival [...]
February 2019
Why you should attend piano concerts
This post was updated on 10th February 2019 In a previous post I wrote about a couple of piano [...]
Happy Chinese New Year 2019
I would like to wish all of my pupils a happy 2019 which in the Chinese calendar is the [...]
January 2019
Shine Festival 2019
Shine Festival 2019 Teesside's Shine Festival is back again this year, bigger and better than ever with a [...]
December 2018
Are musicians superior thinkers?
I have written a few articles on the benefits that learning to play piano bring to my pupils - [...]
November 2018
Piano lessons improve language skill in young children
A recently published study by MIT's Robert Desimone, senior author of the paper and director of MIT’s McGovern Institute [...]
September 2018
Is your child ready for piano lessons?
I often get enquiries from parents asking if their child is old enough to start piano lessons so I [...]