Piano Lessons For All Levels & Ages | Explore, Learn, Achieve

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I teach beginning and advanced aspiring pianists of all ages (3+) with a focus on immersing students in the magical world of music and getting the best possible quality out of them by challenging to achieve more than assumed possible. Music is a soul-enriching experience and developing musical skills can be a great gift for a lifetime.

With solo piano performance degrees from the Royal Academy of Music (London) and the Universität der Künste (Berlin) I am a highly qualified award-winning concert pianist with almost 20 years of teaching experience and a passion for education. My musical learning was also furthered by postgraduate musicological studies at Royal Holloway and serious interests in philosophy, religions, history, civilization, literature, poetry, law, languages as well as many other things. I loved my musical journey which included not only piano but also composition, the violin, recorder, flute, harpsichord and clavichord from childhood onwards. In the last two decades, teaching has been giving meaning to my life and I enjoy helping others to find fulfillment as well as joy in their learning.

My teaching approach is comprehensive, builds up confidence and incorporates a multidisciplinary orientation thanks to which students get promptly enthused over their learning. There is a focus on enhancing musical understanding, developing or improving reading skills, building up technique, expanding repertoire in a healthy way and foundationally preventing or sorting out injuries as well as pain-related problems. Although my teaching style is primarily quality-oriented with regards to skills, I believe that happiness, confidence, results and a sane sense of achievement are important components to balance in holistic education and offer a non-judgemental, patient, kind, equality-oriented, multicultural environment in which learning can thrive.

I encourage students to perform in concerts, festivals, exams and competitions. Many have won prizes in numerous competitions and passed exams with distinctions. Others have improved their technical skills as well as understanding of music, thus opening more doors and finding professional opportunities in the world of music.

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Around London, United Kingdom

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Baker St, London, UK

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About Me

Natalia was born into a family of musicians in Russia and received her first piano lessons from her mother, continuing with Valentina Nikiforova, a student of Olga Kalantarova who was the assistant of Anna Yessipova. At the age of eight she began playing on stage and had a solo performance in the Glinka Chapel in St Petersburg three years later. In 1995 the family emigrated to Germany and Natalia became a pupil of Prof. Conrad Hansen in Hamburg. In 2000 she entered the University of Arts in Berlin to study with Prof. Pascal Devoyon and graduated with a Diplom (BMus) in solo piano performance.

Natalia has lived in London since 2006, where she continued her studies in piano with Piers Lane and Kathryn Stott as well as harpsichord with Virginia Black and clavichord with Terence Charlston on the MMus programme at the Royal Academy of Music. She has taken part in masterclasses with Dang Thai Son, Rainer Becker, Christopher Elton, Felix Gottlieb, Stanislav Pochekin, Oxana Yablonskaya, Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, Bernard d’Ascoli, Victor Rosenbaum, Kenneth Gilbert, Julian Jacobson and Stephen Savage and has also had lessons with Lilya Silberstein, Hartmut Rohde, Daniel Hoexter, Michael Dussek and Michael Roll.

Natalia has won prizes at several competitions including the Hastings Centenary Festival International Piano Concerto Competition where she won the first and the Sir Philip Ledger Prize in 2007. She has also been the recipient of the Oscar und Vera Ritter Scholarship, the Paul Hindemith Scholarship, the Myra Hess Award and the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Award.

Natalia has given soloist and chamber music performances in the Musikhalle in Hamburg, the Summer Festival Sommerfestspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Philharmonie Berlin performing a Mozart Concerto, the Warehouse in London playing with the Manson Ensemble, the Messiaen South Bank Festival 2008 in London and she also appeared in St. John’s Smith Square playing the Schumann Concerto in November 2007. She is constantly expanding her repertoire, exploring contemporary music with interest, working in different chamber music groups and is also pursuing her interest in musicology which lead her to completing another masters in historical musicology at Royal Holloway University of London.

Natalia has been giving piano lessons in London and Berlin since 2003. She has been teaching children and adult pupils and has experience of preparing students for concerts, exams, auditions and piano competitions.

Natalia also pursued a range of other interests such as Baroque music theory, composition, playing the violin, recorder and flute, languages, literature, photography, religions, philosophy, poetry, law and baking.

Education

Royal Academy of Music London (MMus Solo Piano Performance)
Royal Holloway University of London (MMus Musicology)
Universität der Künste Berlin (Diplom Hauptfach Klavier)

Experience / Qualifications

MMus Solo Piano Performance and Research with Second Study Harpsichord
MMus Musicology
LRAM Piano Teacher Licentiate Royal Academy of Music
Diplom Hauptfach Klavier UdK Berlin / Degree Solo Piano Performance University of Arts Berlin

Experience:
Over 18 years of teaching in Germany and London
Age of pupils: 3+
Levels of pupils: beginners, intermediate, advanced, diplomas, degrees, professionals

Pupils' achievements:
Distinctions, 1st prizes, gold medals as well as further top prizes and non-competitive festival performances in examinations, competitions and festivals such as:
ABRSM exams
Jugend musiziert (German national music competition)
Leigh-On-Sea Competitive Festival of Music & Drama
West London Pianoforte Festival
Maidstone Music Festival
Farnham Competitive Music Festival
Sevenoaks Three Arts Festival
Milton Keynes Music Festival
Ealing Festival of Music, Speech and Drama

Age

Infants (0-3 years old)

Preschool children (4-6 years old)

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

30 minutes