Caroline Clipsham
After attending Chethams School of Music, Caroline was awarded a scholarship to study with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. There she won numerous awards and prizes including the Claud Beddington Prize for Beethoven, the Gregory Salzman Paino Award and the Shiriff's Prize for the highest Final Recital marks.

Janet Haney
Janet Haney was born in Dudley in the West Midlands. She trained at the Birmingham School of Music and then continued with postgraduate studies at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since graduating Janet has been working as a freelance repetiteur, recital accompanist, conductor and is in particular demand as a vocal coach. On the concert platform Janet has performed at most of the UK's Festivals, St David's Hall Cardiff, Symphony Hall Birmingham, The  Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room. Abroad she has given recitals in Russia, New York and Reykjavik.

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Gillian Ford
Scottish-born Gillian graduated with the highest honours as both a French horn player and pianist from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, studying piano accompaniment with Graham Johnson and Paul Hamburger, and in masterclasses with Geoffrey Parsons and Roger Vignole

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Mark Oldfield
Mark Oldfield was born in Sheffield and then graduated in Music from Colchester. Here he studied piano with Robert Bell, after which, he spent two years freelancing as a pianist for Ballet and performers of music theatre.

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Robert Simonis
Robert has been teaching the piano for the last four years, having recently passed his ABRSM teaching Diploma exam. He also completed an EPTA pedagogy course on piano teaching at The Royal College of Music.

His main inspiration for teaching the piano is the great pleasure Robert gets from seeing a pupil progress in achieving the goals that are set. He also finds that the preparation and research which must be done when teaching the piano keeps him progressing personally, affording him the opportunity to discover new ways to approach teaching the various techniques.

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Susan Waters
Susan Waters was born in Hertfordshire and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music,London, with Guy Jonson. After graduating with Honours, she taught Music at Haberdashers Aske's Girls School, before winning a scholarship to study opera at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

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Jenny Trew
Jenny Trew was born in Swansea and won a scholarship to study at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. She continued her studies at The Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton and won several prizes including the John Ireland prize. She then specialised in accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was awarded the Accompaniment Prize and the Mitchell Foundation Bursary.

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Fiona Walters
Born to Irish parents in Cheshire, Fiona Walters is not only in demand as a teacher, but also as a performer, respected piano technician and tuner.  Her natural talent was first recognised by her primary school headmaster who made sure she continued and subsequently studied with tutors including Christopher Caine and Kate Elmitt, and completed her education by gaining her Associateship of Trinity College London with an emphasis on performance. 

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Ben Ward
Ben Ward was born in Hertfordshire and studied Maths at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he played in several concerts and had his introduction to choral accompaniment, leading to a more musical than mathematical life.

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Charlotte Way
Charlotte Way studied piano with Ruth Gerald at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where she was awarded two scholarships, and gained diplomas in piano and singing teaching. 
She then went on to Goldsmith's College, London University, to study for a B. Mus.  Her career has spanned performance as a soloist and an accompanist, and she has extensive teaching experience, having taught at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, for many years, and maintained a private practice including many adult students.

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Rachel Fuller
Rachel Fuller commenced her studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand with concert pianist Diedre Irons in 1992, graduating with First Class Honours in Piano Performance. During her studies she developed a passion for Chamber Music and Accompaniment. In 1997 Rachel commenced studies in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Michael Dussek and Tatiana Sarkissova and in 2000 graduated with a Masters in Music.

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Alexander Walker
Alexander Walker has a passion for education. He began learning the double bass as well as the piano at an early age and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He is a graduate from Bristol University in music and followed his studies there with post-graduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia.

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Alla Sirenko
Alla Sirenko was born into a musical family of teachers and musicians. Her mother was a professor of Flute in the Lviv conservatoire (Ukraine) and her Cousin Vladimir Sirenko is the chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in Kiev.

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Andrew Sackett
Andrew Sackett has had a wide and varied musical career. He was born in Sheffield and at an early age had piano lessons from Fanny Waterman. After moving to Lichfield he took organ lessons at the Cathedral with Jonathan Rees-Williams. He entered the Royal Northern College of Music in 1982 and studied organ with Eric Chadwick, Gordon Stewart and Gillian Weir, and piano accompaniment with Jack Brymer’s life long accompanist, David Lloyd.

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