The Spring Series 2024 starts on Monday 8th January and finishes on Saturday 23rd March, a total of 10 weeks.

There will be no lessons during the week starting Monday 19th February, unless by prior arrangement.

The Summer Series 2024 starts on Monday 8th April and finishes on Saturday 10th August, a total of 17 weeks.

There will be no lessons during the week starting Monday 28th May, unless by prior arrangement.

The Autumn Series 2024 starts on Monday 9th September and finishes on Saturday 21st December, a total of 14 weeks.

There will be no lessons during the week starting Monday 28th October, unless by prior arrangement.

Please attend all lessons if you can. If there are any dates which you know you won’t be able to make, please let me know as soon as possible. I am often able to reschedule, provided I am given enough notice, although this cannot be guaranteed.

The Autumn Series starts on Monday 11th September and will finish on Saturday 23rd December, a total of 14 weeks.

There will be no lessons during the week starting Monday 23rd October, unless by prior arrangement.

Welsh pupils may find their Half Term Week is on different dates, so please note there will be no music lessons during the week beginning Monday 23rd October (unless separately scheduled), and there will be lessons as normal during the week before. If you need to rearrange your lessons due to having a different half term week, please let me know as soon as possible.

The Winter/Spring Series 2024 will begin on Monday 8th January.

The Summer Series will continue through July and August, as I’ve found that, for most students, it’s far better not to have a six- or seven-week break over the summer months. Instead, I will be taking a two-week break from Monday 28th August until Sunday 10th September inclusive.

I very much hope you will be happy to continue with your music lessons during July and August, but I appreciate that you may be taking holidays yourselves. Could you please let me know any dates you are unavailable? I will of course allow for these in my invoices.

During the first COVID lockdown, we continued with our online lessons throughout the summer (after all, no-one was going anywhere!) and the results were extremely encouraging. I would like to build on this now—although in much nicer and happier circumstances!

This flexible and accommodating partnership between me and my pupils (or their parents) is vitally important to me, so please get back to me if you have any concerns. I would appreciate hearing dates of unavailability, or other matters concerning the Summer Series, before Saturday 15th July. This will give me a chance to organise the calendar before the end of term. Thank you!

The second half of the Summer Series 2023 runs from Monday 5th June to Saturday 22nd July, a total of six weeks, and your Summer Series invoice will have accounted for these lessons.

I am available during the last week in July and for most of August if you would prefer not to have a big gap before the Autumn Series begins. Please contact me if you would like to arrange additional lessons over the summer holidays (these do not have to be weekly, and they can be on different days and at different times from the normal term-time schedule.)

You will receive your Autumn Series 2023 invoice during the last week of August.

The Autumn Series will begin on Monday 11th September and will end on Saturday 23rd December 2023. Half Term Week is the week beginning Monday 23rd October. Welsh pupils may find their Half Term Week is on different dates, so please note there will be no music lessons during the week beginning Monday 23rd October (unless separately scheduled), and there will be lessons as normal during the week before. If you need to rearrange your lessons due to having a different half term week, please let me know as soon as possible.

There are no music lessons on Monday 17th April. If your lesson is on a Monday, you will start on Monday 24th.

No lessons will take place from 20th May to 4th June inclusive. You will not be charged for these on your Summer Term invoice.

There will be no lessons on Wednesday 26th April. All pupils scheduled for Wednesday lessons will have these transferred to Saturday 29th or Sunday 30th April. Please contact me to arrange a time.

Thank you!

A very Happy New Year to all my pupils and their families. 2023 will no doubt have its challenges as well as its excitements and its high points, but we are ready for all of it!

Some of you will sit instrumental and/or theory exams, and all of you will make progress and gain more skill, more control, more confidence and more enjoyment from your music.

Look back now at the start of 2022. What have you learnt and what have you achieved since then? How far have you come with your music?

I should like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and musical year ahead.

There will be no piano/keyboard/theory lessons during the week beginning Monday 30th January 2023. Invoices for next term will allow for this. In all other respects, the dates for next term remain as stated on the tuition dates page.

Our second Entry Into Music is now explained and described on this website. Have a look under Tuition – Practising.

Playing By Ear is difficult for many people. If you need help with any aspect of this amazing skill, please contact me. Lessons can be arranged! Help is at hand! But do read the article and then just have a go. You may find you’re a natural!