Piano Teachers Giving Piano Lessons in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Peter (Panayotis) Archontides MMus in piano performance, BA, ASCM, Soloist Piano Dip., Harmony/Couterpoint/Fugue Diplomas



Peter (Panayotis) Archontides is a Greek-Australian pianist with 15 years of teaching experience. Currently keyboard/piano tutor of Wandsworth Music Service, his teaching experience comprises all levels and ages. As a private piano tutor, he welcomes students at the Blackheath Piano Studio which he runs jointly with his wife pianist Natalie Tsaldarakis. The studio is equipped with a Boston-Steinway grand piano, a Broadwood Baby grand piano, an Otto Bach upright piano, and a further Yamaha Clavinova.
Panayotis was Trinity College of Music Scholar for the academic year 2006-2007, and recipient of numerous prizes and awards. He was awarded a high commendation at the 2006 Halford Piano Competition for new music (only 1st prize was also awarded at the competition), he was TCM runner-up in the 2006 Jacques Samuels Intercollegiate Piano Competition, he was awarded the Mehroo and Byram Jeejeebhoy 2006 Piano Prize, and finally the coveted Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal for excellence (2007). Both his lecture recital on the Miklos Rozsa Sonata for Piano (Feb. 2007) and his graduate recital (May 2007), where he presented Russian avant-garde from the turn of the 20th c., received a distinction from their respective juries, which included such notables as Philip Fowke, Douglas Finch, and Gordon Fergus Thompson.
Panayotis has previously received the Associate of Music in piano performance from the N. S. W. State Conservatorium of Music with Honors, from the class of Elizabeth Powell (pupil herself of Claudio Arrau). While at the Conservatorium (Sydney University) he also won a scholarship to study with revered pianist and pedagogue Lev Vlassenko. Archontides continued his studies with distinguished soloist D. Toufexis at the Skalkotas Conservatory of Athens, where he was awarded the Soloist Diploma in piano performance with first prize and gold medal. P. B. Archontides also holds degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue from the Skalkotas Conservatory, where he benefited from the guidance of well-known Greek composer M. Travlos. In 1997 the pianist also graduated from the American College of Greece with a B.A. in Music with distinction