A WORLD OF MUSIC IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

WHY PLAY MUSIC?
Unlock your passion
Music is one of the most rewarding activities that human beings are capable of creating. It is physically, mentally and emotionally challenging, yet playing even the simplest of tunes can be the key to unlocking passions and emotions from deep within.
And it’s fantastic fun, of course!
Great mental exercise
Playing music strengthens our concentration, heightens our critical and emotional faculties, and lowers anxiety and stress levels.
Indications are that it may benefit a child’s educational and mental development, including reading age, IQ and certain parts of the brain.
Great physical exercise
Playing an instrument forces us to manage and use our bodies in subtle ways: our fingers and arms learn great precision and independence of movement; we learn how to relax our neck and shoulders and how to stand correctly. It keeps the hands and fingers nimble, and may even help to slow down the onset of arthritis.
Great social activity
Music is a universal language. Meeting and playing with other musicians is one of life’s great pleasures and privileges. You don’t have to be playing for long before you can find people to play with – whether it’s a folk session in a pub, a few mates in a band or chamber music group, or a like-minded duet partner. The door is opened to that big happy family of musicians.
Anyone can do it
There is no such thing as tone deafness – it’s just a matter of working at it. If you have been discouraged at some point in your lifeby being told that you have “no musical ability”, yet you are moved when you listen to music that you love, I am convinced that you do have a musical soul. I work with each student to tailor a programme of lessons to their own particular musical needs, and at every level my aim is to encourage my students to develop confidence in their own musical abilities.
Age is no object
My studio is evenly divided between children and adult students. My youngest student is six years old and about half of my current students are adults, many of whom are retirees. Some learnt violin when they were young but dropped it during their working lives and now want to pick it up again. Others received a new violin or ukulele for Christmas and see it as a retirement hobby. What a fantastic thing to do! It keeps the mind and the fingers nimble, and it can lead to great social opportunities.
While I do teach good technique – which is nothing but the most economical way of playing music better – I never forget that music is also meant to PLAYED and to be FUN.