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

Dr. J.M. Ainscough LTCL, GTCL , FTCL, M.Mus. (London, Composition), Ph.D. (Surrey, Composition), FRCO.



Dr. Julie Ainscough, LTCL (Piano Teaching), GTCL (Music, with 1st-class Honours), FTCL (Composition), M.Mus. (London, Composition), Ph.D. (Surrey, Composition), FRCO (Mrs. J.M. Harrold).

I give first-class professional tuition in piano, classical pipe organ, music theory and *composition and have more than 30 years' successful experience in an extensive private practice and in prestigious public and other independent schools. My pupils often study with me for many years, flourishing musically, academically and personally.

I can offer places to well-motivated adults and children, from absolute beginners up to those seeking music conservatoire and university entrance plus Performer's Diplomas.

All of my piano pupils are taught on a superb Bösendorfer grand piano; organ pupils receive tuition on first-class pipe organs by Harrison & Harrison, "Father" Henry Willis, etc.

Piano pupils enjoy performance and social opportunities at regular soirées, where they have played on superb grand pianos by Bösendorfer Steinway and Fazioli before an audience of fellow pupils. Adult pupils participate in residential summer schools (e.g. Chetham's) and all pupils may compete in the Reigate & Redhill Music Festival.

Organ pupils often compete in the Croydon and Godalming music festivals with conspicuous success and often participate in the prize-winners' concerts. They are prepared for Royal College of Organists' professional diplomas and (in appropriate cases) for Oxford & Cambridge universities' college Organ Scholarships - e.g. Timothy Burke, formerly Senior Organ Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford (graduated with 1st Class Honours degree in Music and now Chorus Master of Opera North), plus Lawrence Thain (formerly Senior Organ Scholar, New College, Oxford and now Assistant organist at Grace Epsicopal Cathedral, San Francisco, USA). Organ pupils in post currently as Organ Scholars can be found at Balliol, Brasenose, Pembroke and University colleges, University of Oxford.

My professional portfolio also includes work as a church organist and choirmaster, which has involved high levels of success in training young choristers who have obtained significant success in the award examinations of the Royal School of Church Music. I completed a Doctorate in Music Composition at the University of Surrey in May 2011, which involved a portfolio of concert music with analysis in the form of detailed programme and analytical notes plus a research dissertation entitled "Olivier Messiaen: musical and symbolic aspects of three later organ cycles". Graduation took place in April 2012.

I am an ISM full member and am listed on the ISM Register of Private Professional Teachers. I have an enhanced CRB Disclosure.

* Winner of the 1978 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for Composition and the 2005 David Lovatt Prize for Composition (University of Surrey).