Piano Teacher

Silvia Silviane

Piano Tuition and Theory of Music

She graduated from the Music Academy Tübingen, where she obtained her degree as a pianist and music teacher.

In Germany, she spent 5 years to learn directly from Prof. Jonathan Goenawan, as a founder of International Brain Academy, opened his schools in some countries in Asia, America, and Australia.
With his scientific method of Snowman, she teaches her students, especially from a very young age from 3 year old to adult new starter with the basic skill of Reading and Playing the music in easy and fun way.

She finds this method is very good basic to introduce Piano as one of the important music instrument, either to helps the children’s brain works in networks thinking nor as a solid foundation to start any other instruments.
A parent said the music method helps her son starts earlier and faster in reading books, before they start his Kindergarten.

She has some students starting with 3 year old and now they are 9 and 7, going to Scot College and Sydney Grammar, very confident with their piano skill and ready to run with the second instruments ( Sax and Violin) they built their skill in hearing and reading notes, and rhythm and found very easy to jump their second instrument to higher level in AMEB standard. And still enjoying their piano as their first instrument.

She started to teach the piano since 1998, when she studied in Germany, when she moved to Sydney in 2008 and joined the International Brain Academy in Sydney. By then she has her own students and teaching in Public School as a private piano lessons until now she is still teaching in Eastern suburb, before she moved to North West in August 2016 and will start her profession here in her new place.

To make a student become a Professional Pianist is very hard. However, to built a good basic, that they can love the music and learning piano in fun way is more difficult, especially for young beginner.

The advantage to start music early is:
^As this Snowman method is easy to learn, teach the kids with lots of stories and fantasy, it is more interesting for young kids than older one.
^The fingers are still flexible to play in right way.
^They still have lots of time to practise before school home works and other activities
^They can built up their skill until they are in year 5, reach at least Grade 5 AMEB for them to reach the lowest level required to apply school Music Scholarship.
^As they have the basic, become fast learner, they have time to learn second or third instruments and try which other instrument they like the most.

She is teaching piano for AMEB exams, Piano for leisure, Theory of Music and/or Musicianship.

Silvia Silviane

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