Piano Teacher

Maria Welna Concert pianist, examiner, organist, PhD candidate

Piano lessons in the Eastern Suburbs, lower North shore and Sutherland

Experience the highest standard of piano tuition for exams (AMEB, ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall etc), competition, or general tuition particularly geared at advanced students.

Please contact me (email) with your details and piano background to discuss your individual piano needs. I teach and have particular expertise with advanced level students (as a guideline this would be from Level 2 AMEB consisting of 5th Grade to Certificate of Performance, Level 3-Associate and Licentiate-through to tertiary and professional musicians).

Lessons are available in Lugarno (studio) as well as home visits in Vaucluse (Eastern suburbs).

As a recitalist I have performed across a range of fine venues (concert halls/cathedrals) around the world and repeatedly played for dignitaries and honourable guests. My artistic activity has appeared in a broad range of state through to international media outlets. This has included performance, composition and interview broadcasts on ABC Classic FM’s ‘Musica Viva Festival’ coverage, 4MBS Classic FM, SBS, and Bay FM. I have worked (as part of long-term studies, masterclasses/festivals or other forms of collaboration) with concert artists from the USA, Australia, Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Switzerland, Iceland and Germany. In 2014 she joined the roster of Concert Artist Cooperative as an international recitalist. Additional successes include the set up of a recital series (Chopin and Friends), two ‘live’ CDs, notable competition wins/awards and musical directorship commitments.

I hold a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance (with additional programs in pipe organ and voice) from the K. Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, Poland. The degree culminated in a public recital and the presentation/defence of a research thesis entitled ‘The genesis and development of the solo piano recital as exemplified by the practices of selected virtuoso pianists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (The Piano Recital – ‘An Opera in 3 Acts’)’. I also completed a Master of Music Studies degree in performance (pipe organ) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. I am currently a PhD candidate in piano and organ performance practice at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. My doctoral research deals with the phenomenon of the “‘Concert Virtuoso’ Then and Now – From Nineteenth-Century Virtuosity to Modernity” in particular relation to the performing practices of selected pianists and organists. I have presented papers at prestigious international conferences in the UK and Italy. My article “The Solo Recital – A Lost Performance Tradition” has been accepted for publication in ‘Ad Parnassum’ – A Journal of Eighteenth – and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music.

Whilst encompassing a broad solo repertoire across several musical eras (from the Baroque to the contemporary) I have particular affinity for the works of the nineteenth-century virtuosos, the ‘Golden Age’ of pianism and historically informed performance.

Maria Welna Concert pianist, examiner, organist, PhD candidate

Advanced (as well as intermediate) piano lessons, accompaniment and consultations with European/Australian trained recitalist, examiner and PhD researcher in performance practice at the Sydney Conservatorium.

Experience the highest standard of piano tuition for exams (AMEB, ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall etc), competition, or general tuition particularly geared at advanced students. Concert and exam accompaniment is also available.

I am an Australian concert pianist, pipe organist, researcher and composer with extensive performance, pedagogical training and experience across competitive music schools (and the studio setting) in Europe and Australia. I have performed nationally/internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist and have presented my PhD research on matters of performance practice in an international setting (in prestigious conferences and lecture-recitals). I examine piano for the AMEB and am on the roster of Concert Artist Cooperative as a concert pianist and organist. For more details and recordings please visit my website www.mariawelna.com

I hold a Bachelor of Music (performance) from the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland and a Master of Music Studies degree (performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Currently I am a PhD researcher at the Sydney Conservatorium researching piano and organ performance practice (the phenomenon of the concert virtuoso and the romantic performance tradition).

Please email with your details and background to discuss your individual lesson needs. I teach and have particular expertise with advanced level students (as a guideline this would be from Level 2 AMEB consisting of 5th Grade to Certificate of Performance, Level 3-Associate and Licentiate-through to tertiary and professional musicians).

Qualifications -

• Pedagogical qualifications - Europe

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