Piano · Long Bay, North Shore Auckland
One to one, at my studio in Long Bay. Complete beginners, children, adults coming back to it after thirty years, and students working through grades.
Beginners are welcome. So are children who have never touched a piano, and adults who own one nobody plays.
Coming back after twenty or thirty years is not starting from zero.
Students already playing come to fix technique, read better, or prepare for a grade.
For someone who has never played.
Grades, and doing without them
I prepare students for ABRSM piano exams, from the early grades upward. I also teach ABRSM Grade 5 Theory of Music, which is the paper required before Grade 6 practical.
Grades are optional. A grade is a deadline. Deadlines suit some players and flatten others.
My own qualification: ABRSM Grade 8 in piano, Grade 5 Theory of Music passed with distinction, and studied toward a performance Diploma.
Intermediate work is mostly three things. Technique, so your hands stop limiting the music. Sight reading, so a new piece is not a code to crack. Theory, so you understand what you are playing.
Classical is the backbone of the ABRSM pathway and worth learning properly. It is not the only route through.
Film themes, pop songs and pieces you found online get taught here too. A lesson can look nothing like an exam and build the same hands.
The practical part
Invoiced monthly, so there is no term to pay up front. No enrolment fee, no booking fee, nothing for materials.
Lessons run Monday to Friday, 3:15pm to 7:30pm. The last half hour starts at 7:00pm, the last full hour at 6:30pm. There are no weekend lessons.
There is no free trial. The first lesson is a real lesson at the normal price, with no obligation to continue.
The studio is at 24 Westerley Place, Long Bay, Auckland 0630. Street parking is about 20 metres from the door.
I also teach guitar, and singing at beginner level.
