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Teaching Observation

I have been working for a year now with a lady, in her 70s, with Parkinson's. Normally I would cross town to teach her as it’s difficult for her to travel...

Listening and Hearing… What a Subject!

Listening and hearing… what a subject! As teachers and players, we are doing them both all the time. It’s absorbing and can be tiring. This last week I have noticed...

Welcome to My Shiny New Website and Blog!

I intend to be sharing thoughts and ideas here and hope we can start some conversations whether you are a teacher or student. We all learn from each other. At...

Unsung Heroes has become a central part of my w...

Unsung Heroes has become a central part of my working life, but it came gradually to me. I had just had my son, moved from London and, soon after arriving...

When I was 10 years old…

When I was 10 years old, I started lessons with the cellist, Pamela Hind O’Malley in Cambridge, where I grew up. Over her piano was a large portrait of a...

What I love…

I love the playing of the great Italian pianist, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. One of my teachers at college, Eileen Croxford, told me how she had been practising in a room...