EPTA UK/Purcell Practical Piano Teaching Course
COURSE DIRECTORS AND TUTORS
LUCINDA MACKWORTH-YOUNG – Director (Epta UK)
Lucinda Mackworth-Young is a pioneering consultant, lecturer and writer in psychology for musicians. She is also an experienced concert pianist and teacher. Well known for her entertaining and experiential approach, shedding light on many of the problems encountered daily and offering a wealth of tips, she puts psychology into relevant and practical forms to inspire and refresh music teaching, learning and performing. One of her visions is for all who learn to play the piano to do so not only through note reading, but also by ear and through improvisation, so becoming truly versatile and spontaneous in their playing.
She runs courses through her association, Music, Mind and Movement, and also provides course work for the leading professional development courses. She has had many articles published in Rhinegold, Faber and ABRSM publications and her highly successful and readable book: “TUNING IN: Practical Psychology for Musicians” came out in 2001.
WILLIAM FONG - Director (Purcell School)
William Fong is Head of Keyboard at the Purcell School. He fi rst came to International attention when he won the fi rst prize, gold medal and Rosa Sabater prize at the Concurso Internacional de Piano in Jaen, Spain in 1984. This was the fi rst of many prizes at international level, which include the Busoni, Cleveland, Iturbi, and Scottish International Competitions.
His London concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra at St. John’s Smith Square soon followed, and since then he has performed at major venues in cities worldwide. Highlights include his Moscow and St. Petersburg debuts under the auspices of the Sviatoslav Richter Foundation and critically acclaimed tours of Spain and France. As well as recording for BBC Radio 3, William’s performances have been broadcast on Classic FM, BBC television and on European and US radio and television.
HELI IGNATIUS-FLEET
Heli Ignatius-Fleet is a highly trained pianist and piano teacher with extensive studies in several countries with a variety of distinguished professors. Having completed the two year pedagogy module in Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, she is as passionate about teaching as she is of playing the piano: she teaches students ranging from professional musicians to beginners, and performs regularly. Heli writes and lectures on many piano related topics; she runs courses for pianists and was the Director of the EPTA UK Piano Pedagogy Course for several years.
CATHERINE RILEY
Catherine Riley graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a Master of Music (in performance) with fi rst class honours, before continuing her post graduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Kendall Taylor and Peter Wallfi sch. Successes with the Royal Overseas Music Festival and the Lambeth Award, led to concerts in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and the Fairfield Halls. She has since performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in Festivals and Music Clubs in Britain, as well as in Europe. In her various teaching roles, which include Head of Piano at the Centre for Young Musicians in London, she teaches a wide range of pupils from elementary to advanced and professional levels, gives masterclasses and coaches chamber ensembles.
SALLY CHAPPELL
Sally Chappell is a musician and teacher who is involved in many aspects and levels of music education. She is currently Director of Music at St Gabriel’s, Newbury where she teaches children from 3 – 18 years old. Additionally she works as an Advisory Teacher for the Voices Foundation, lectures for the University of Reading and is an examiner for the Associated Board. Sally is also a choral conductor and her choirsin the past have sung at the Royal Albert Hall and been in the fi nals of the Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition. She has carried out ground breaking research into how musicians of all ages can be helped to become more sensitive and responsive in their music making and is frequently asked to give lectures on this and associated topics. In 2005 Sally was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship which enabled her to visit South Africa, Hungary and Cuba and experience their music education systems.
SIMON COLAM
Simon Colam studied at Salford University before moving to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to complete a degree course. Since then he has performed in various groups including Jazz, Salsa and Commercial Music performing at many leading UK venues including Ronnie Scott’s, South Bank Centre, Wembley Arena and Jazz Cafe. He is a member of the Nathan Haines Group, which has recently performed at the North Sea and Montreux Jazz Festivals and the Blue Note, Tokyo. Simon also pursues an active teaching career at the Royal College of Music Junior Department; St. Paul’s Girls’ School and is Head of Jazz at the Purcell School.
JOHN CRAWFORD
John Crawford began his interest in mind/body coordination while a scholar at the Royal College of Music, through his intensive work with Jean Gibson, a remarkable teacher who had a unique insight into musicians’ problems. He later enjoyed an extensive performing career before qualifying as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1989. Since then he has combined a busy teaching practice- he holds positions at the Purcell school, Trinity College and the Royal College Junior Department-- with performing and adjudicating. He has given workshops as far a fi eld as New Zealand, Finland and Sweden, and continues to learn as much from his students as he hopes they do from him!
ILANA DAVIDS
Ilana Davids was born in Israel and began broadcasting at the age of 11 as a recitalist and soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. She entered the Israel Academy of Music at the age of 14 where studied piano under Ilona Vincze-Kraus. A winner of many competitions, her pianistic ability was praised by eminent musicians such as Leonard Bernstein and Gina Bachauer. Ilana won a scholarship to study in London with Ilona Kabos where she later continued her studies with Maria Curcio, making a highly acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1972. In 1981 she joined the staff at Trinity College of Music. Ilana Davids has taught at the Purcell School since 1991, and in 1999 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College, London.
NICOLA GAINES
Nicola Gaines is a specialist performer and teacher of Early Dance. A graduate of the London College of Dance and Drama, and the Royal Ballet School’s Teachers Training Course, she teaches and demonstrates on numerous courses run for dancers, musicians and actors. Nicola has her own company, Music Mind & Movement, and is the Chairman of the Dalcroze Society. Nicola has also worked on several educational projects with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as well as one for the Victoria & Albert Museum and Viva (East of England Orchestra). In 1998 she recorded a video on Baroque dance.
PAUL HARRIS
Paul Harris has established an international reputation as one of Britain’s leading music educationalists. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the August Manns prize for outstanding performance. He has taught in many institutions in the UK, the USA, the Far East, New Zealand and Australia. Paul has also undertaken research into specialist music education for the highly talented. He has well over 550 publications to his name, most being concerned with music education through which he has assisted hundreds of thousands of young players worldwide to develop their vital musical skills. Among them number his highly acclaimed series Improve Your Sight Reading!, Improve Your Teaching!, and The Music Teacher’s Companion which won the UK’s Music Industry Association’s Best New Book award. He writes for many national and international journals and even made an appearance in the final Inspector Morse novel!
EMILY JEFFREY
Emily Jeffrey, born in Sydney, has enjoyed considerable success as a pianist with engagements ranging from a solo concerto performance in the Sydney Opera House to recital performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s South Bank. After graduating with Distinction as an Associate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, mily won a number of coveted travelling scholarships, which enabled her to study in Europe, principally at the Royal College of Music, where she won many prizes, culminating in the prestigious Concerto Prize. Emily has made many live television and radio recordings including the fi rst ever Australia-wide simultaneous broadcast for the ABC. In addition to her performing activities, Emily teaches in London at the Royal College of Music and Westminster Cathedral Choir School.
ROSHAN MAGUB
Roshan Magub began piano lessons at the age of six, and at 18 entered the Royal College of Music to continue her studies with Angus Morrison. She subsequently won an Austrian Government scholarship to Vienna, where her teachers were Dr. Josef Dichler, Paul Badura-Skoda and Alfred Brendel. She has played and broadcast in many different countries. In recent years, she has had a busy career as an adjudicator and teacher. She adjudicates and gives master classes regularly for the National Chamber Music Competition for Schools, held each year in England. She has been associated with the Purcell School for several years, both as a parent and as a member of staff. In January 2002, she retired from the post of Head of Keyboard at the School, a post that she had held for over 13 years. She continues to work at the School as a member of its piano teaching faculty.
SHARON MARK
Sharon Mark is a professional piano teacher in Northern Ireland with experience of teaching music in nursery and primary classroom settings and at tertiary level. Having recently completed a research-based MA (Mtpp) in music education at Reading University her research fi ndings call for a fresh approach to piano teaching and learning for the 21st century. Sharon is especially interested in exploring and developing approaches to teaching and learning which foster children’s intrinsic motivation for playing an instrument, and primary music education. She is also a member of EPTA UK’s Management Committee.
MURRAY McLACHLAN
Murray McLachlan has made over forty commercial discs in a wide repertoire, including the completesonatas of Beethoven, Prokofi ev and Myaskovsky. He is Chair of EPTA UK, visiting Professor at St. Andrews University as well as Head of Keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music and senior tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. His articles for international magazines have been widely acclaimed. His new International concerto competition for young pianists was successfully launched in Manchester this year. He has received invitations to perform on all fi ve continents and is founder and artistic director of the Chetham's International Summer School and Festival for Pianists the largest summer school in Europe devoted exclusively to the piano.
TESSA NICHOLSON
Tessa Nicholson is well established as a solo pianist, ensemble player and teacher. During a remarkable early career, she made two concerto appearances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Her studies continued at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was a scholar, and later at the Royal College of Music and then in Italy. Her teachers have included Lamar Crowson, Maria Tipo and Maria Curcio, with whom she studied for fi ve years. Tessa has performed all over the UK and abroad. She has appeared many times on the South Bank and at the Wigmore Hall and has recorded frequently for the BBC and Classic FM. Tessa Nicholson was an examiner for the Associated Board for 17 years and presently, in addition to her work at the Purcell School, she teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and at Trinity College of Music.
CAROLE PRESLAND
Carole Presland’s concerts have taken her all over Europe, the USA and the Far East. She has appeared throughout the UK in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St John’s Smith Square and at major international festivals such as Aldeburgh, Bath and Harrogate. Carole has broadcast regularly for BBC Radio 3, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Radio France and WFMT Radio in the United States and has recorded CDs in various partnerships for labels such as EMI Classics, Pavane and Meridian to wide critical acclaim. Passionate about the chamber music repertoire she has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Colin Carr, Robert Cohen, Nobuko Imai, Ralph Kirshbaum, Anthony Marwood and the Belcea, Chilingirian, Endellion and Vanbrugh String Quartets. She has been a Senior Tutor in Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music since 1996.
GEORGIA VOLIOTI
Georgia Volioti has been a member of the course committee since 2004 with an active role in overseeing academic aspects of the course and helping restructure the content into its new format. Formerly a graduate of Imperial College London with fi rst class honours, but always a keen pianist with a passion for music, she swapped a career in molecular biology for music taking up further studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and completing her Masters with distinction in 2005. Having been awarded a CHARM/AHRC studentship she is currently reading for a PhD at the same university and her thesis explores stylistic change in the twentieth-century performance traditions of the piano music of Grieg, Bartok and Rachmaninoff. She continues to study the piano as there is always room for improvement!
The Purcell School is a registered charity
Lucinda Mackworth-Young is a pioneering consultant, lecturer and writer in psychology for musicians. She is also an experienced concert pianist and teacher. Well known for her entertaining and experiential approach, shedding light on many of the problems encountered daily and offering a wealth of tips, she puts psychology into relevant and practical forms to inspire and refresh music teaching, learning and performing. One of her visions is for all who learn to play the piano to do so not only through note reading, but also by ear and through improvisation, so becoming truly versatile and spontaneous in their playing.
She runs courses through her association, Music, Mind and Movement, and also provides course work for the leading professional development courses. She has had many articles published in Rhinegold, Faber and ABRSM publications and her highly successful and readable book: “TUNING IN: Practical Psychology for Musicians” came out in 2001.
WILLIAM FONG - Director (Purcell School)
William Fong is Head of Keyboard at the Purcell School. He fi rst came to International attention when he won the fi rst prize, gold medal and Rosa Sabater prize at the Concurso Internacional de Piano in Jaen, Spain in 1984. This was the fi rst of many prizes at international level, which include the Busoni, Cleveland, Iturbi, and Scottish International Competitions.
His London concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra at St. John’s Smith Square soon followed, and since then he has performed at major venues in cities worldwide. Highlights include his Moscow and St. Petersburg debuts under the auspices of the Sviatoslav Richter Foundation and critically acclaimed tours of Spain and France. As well as recording for BBC Radio 3, William’s performances have been broadcast on Classic FM, BBC television and on European and US radio and television.
HELI IGNATIUS-FLEET
Heli Ignatius-Fleet is a highly trained pianist and piano teacher with extensive studies in several countries with a variety of distinguished professors. Having completed the two year pedagogy module in Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, she is as passionate about teaching as she is of playing the piano: she teaches students ranging from professional musicians to beginners, and performs regularly. Heli writes and lectures on many piano related topics; she runs courses for pianists and was the Director of the EPTA UK Piano Pedagogy Course for several years.
CATHERINE RILEY
Catherine Riley graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a Master of Music (in performance) with fi rst class honours, before continuing her post graduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Kendall Taylor and Peter Wallfi sch. Successes with the Royal Overseas Music Festival and the Lambeth Award, led to concerts in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and the Fairfield Halls. She has since performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in Festivals and Music Clubs in Britain, as well as in Europe. In her various teaching roles, which include Head of Piano at the Centre for Young Musicians in London, she teaches a wide range of pupils from elementary to advanced and professional levels, gives masterclasses and coaches chamber ensembles.
SALLY CHAPPELL
Sally Chappell is a musician and teacher who is involved in many aspects and levels of music education. She is currently Director of Music at St Gabriel’s, Newbury where she teaches children from 3 – 18 years old. Additionally she works as an Advisory Teacher for the Voices Foundation, lectures for the University of Reading and is an examiner for the Associated Board. Sally is also a choral conductor and her choirsin the past have sung at the Royal Albert Hall and been in the fi nals of the Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition. She has carried out ground breaking research into how musicians of all ages can be helped to become more sensitive and responsive in their music making and is frequently asked to give lectures on this and associated topics. In 2005 Sally was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship which enabled her to visit South Africa, Hungary and Cuba and experience their music education systems.
SIMON COLAM
Simon Colam studied at Salford University before moving to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to complete a degree course. Since then he has performed in various groups including Jazz, Salsa and Commercial Music performing at many leading UK venues including Ronnie Scott’s, South Bank Centre, Wembley Arena and Jazz Cafe. He is a member of the Nathan Haines Group, which has recently performed at the North Sea and Montreux Jazz Festivals and the Blue Note, Tokyo. Simon also pursues an active teaching career at the Royal College of Music Junior Department; St. Paul’s Girls’ School and is Head of Jazz at the Purcell School.
JOHN CRAWFORD
John Crawford began his interest in mind/body coordination while a scholar at the Royal College of Music, through his intensive work with Jean Gibson, a remarkable teacher who had a unique insight into musicians’ problems. He later enjoyed an extensive performing career before qualifying as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1989. Since then he has combined a busy teaching practice- he holds positions at the Purcell school, Trinity College and the Royal College Junior Department-- with performing and adjudicating. He has given workshops as far a fi eld as New Zealand, Finland and Sweden, and continues to learn as much from his students as he hopes they do from him!
ILANA DAVIDS
Ilana Davids was born in Israel and began broadcasting at the age of 11 as a recitalist and soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. She entered the Israel Academy of Music at the age of 14 where studied piano under Ilona Vincze-Kraus. A winner of many competitions, her pianistic ability was praised by eminent musicians such as Leonard Bernstein and Gina Bachauer. Ilana won a scholarship to study in London with Ilona Kabos where she later continued her studies with Maria Curcio, making a highly acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1972. In 1981 she joined the staff at Trinity College of Music. Ilana Davids has taught at the Purcell School since 1991, and in 1999 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College, London.
NICOLA GAINES
Nicola Gaines is a specialist performer and teacher of Early Dance. A graduate of the London College of Dance and Drama, and the Royal Ballet School’s Teachers Training Course, she teaches and demonstrates on numerous courses run for dancers, musicians and actors. Nicola has her own company, Music Mind & Movement, and is the Chairman of the Dalcroze Society. Nicola has also worked on several educational projects with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as well as one for the Victoria & Albert Museum and Viva (East of England Orchestra). In 1998 she recorded a video on Baroque dance.
PAUL HARRIS
Paul Harris has established an international reputation as one of Britain’s leading music educationalists. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the August Manns prize for outstanding performance. He has taught in many institutions in the UK, the USA, the Far East, New Zealand and Australia. Paul has also undertaken research into specialist music education for the highly talented. He has well over 550 publications to his name, most being concerned with music education through which he has assisted hundreds of thousands of young players worldwide to develop their vital musical skills. Among them number his highly acclaimed series Improve Your Sight Reading!, Improve Your Teaching!, and The Music Teacher’s Companion which won the UK’s Music Industry Association’s Best New Book award. He writes for many national and international journals and even made an appearance in the final Inspector Morse novel!
EMILY JEFFREY
Emily Jeffrey, born in Sydney, has enjoyed considerable success as a pianist with engagements ranging from a solo concerto performance in the Sydney Opera House to recital performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s South Bank. After graduating with Distinction as an Associate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, mily won a number of coveted travelling scholarships, which enabled her to study in Europe, principally at the Royal College of Music, where she won many prizes, culminating in the prestigious Concerto Prize. Emily has made many live television and radio recordings including the fi rst ever Australia-wide simultaneous broadcast for the ABC. In addition to her performing activities, Emily teaches in London at the Royal College of Music and Westminster Cathedral Choir School.
ROSHAN MAGUB
Roshan Magub began piano lessons at the age of six, and at 18 entered the Royal College of Music to continue her studies with Angus Morrison. She subsequently won an Austrian Government scholarship to Vienna, where her teachers were Dr. Josef Dichler, Paul Badura-Skoda and Alfred Brendel. She has played and broadcast in many different countries. In recent years, she has had a busy career as an adjudicator and teacher. She adjudicates and gives master classes regularly for the National Chamber Music Competition for Schools, held each year in England. She has been associated with the Purcell School for several years, both as a parent and as a member of staff. In January 2002, she retired from the post of Head of Keyboard at the School, a post that she had held for over 13 years. She continues to work at the School as a member of its piano teaching faculty.
SHARON MARK
Sharon Mark is a professional piano teacher in Northern Ireland with experience of teaching music in nursery and primary classroom settings and at tertiary level. Having recently completed a research-based MA (Mtpp) in music education at Reading University her research fi ndings call for a fresh approach to piano teaching and learning for the 21st century. Sharon is especially interested in exploring and developing approaches to teaching and learning which foster children’s intrinsic motivation for playing an instrument, and primary music education. She is also a member of EPTA UK’s Management Committee.
MURRAY McLACHLAN
Murray McLachlan has made over forty commercial discs in a wide repertoire, including the completesonatas of Beethoven, Prokofi ev and Myaskovsky. He is Chair of EPTA UK, visiting Professor at St. Andrews University as well as Head of Keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music and senior tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. His articles for international magazines have been widely acclaimed. His new International concerto competition for young pianists was successfully launched in Manchester this year. He has received invitations to perform on all fi ve continents and is founder and artistic director of the Chetham's International Summer School and Festival for Pianists the largest summer school in Europe devoted exclusively to the piano.
TESSA NICHOLSON
Tessa Nicholson is well established as a solo pianist, ensemble player and teacher. During a remarkable early career, she made two concerto appearances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Her studies continued at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was a scholar, and later at the Royal College of Music and then in Italy. Her teachers have included Lamar Crowson, Maria Tipo and Maria Curcio, with whom she studied for fi ve years. Tessa has performed all over the UK and abroad. She has appeared many times on the South Bank and at the Wigmore Hall and has recorded frequently for the BBC and Classic FM. Tessa Nicholson was an examiner for the Associated Board for 17 years and presently, in addition to her work at the Purcell School, she teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and at Trinity College of Music.
CAROLE PRESLAND
Carole Presland’s concerts have taken her all over Europe, the USA and the Far East. She has appeared throughout the UK in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St John’s Smith Square and at major international festivals such as Aldeburgh, Bath and Harrogate. Carole has broadcast regularly for BBC Radio 3, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Radio France and WFMT Radio in the United States and has recorded CDs in various partnerships for labels such as EMI Classics, Pavane and Meridian to wide critical acclaim. Passionate about the chamber music repertoire she has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Colin Carr, Robert Cohen, Nobuko Imai, Ralph Kirshbaum, Anthony Marwood and the Belcea, Chilingirian, Endellion and Vanbrugh String Quartets. She has been a Senior Tutor in Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music since 1996.
GEORGIA VOLIOTI
Georgia Volioti has been a member of the course committee since 2004 with an active role in overseeing academic aspects of the course and helping restructure the content into its new format. Formerly a graduate of Imperial College London with fi rst class honours, but always a keen pianist with a passion for music, she swapped a career in molecular biology for music taking up further studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and completing her Masters with distinction in 2005. Having been awarded a CHARM/AHRC studentship she is currently reading for a PhD at the same university and her thesis explores stylistic change in the twentieth-century performance traditions of the piano music of Grieg, Bartok and Rachmaninoff. She continues to study the piano as there is always room for improvement!
The Purcell School is a registered charity