Angelina

Angelina - is a Greek pianist currently pursuing her master studies at Royal Northern College of Music under the guidance of Murray McLachlan. She graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she studied with Gabriele Baldocci and Katya Lebedeva, with a Bachelor`s Degree.
Born in Xanthi, Greece she started piano lessons at the age of five with Giannoula Papazoglou and later with Professor George-Julius Papadopoulos. During her studies, Angelina had masterclasses and lessons with Giorgia Alessandra Brustia, Nikolai Demidenko, Margaret Fingerhut, Leon McCawley, Murray McLachlan, Hamish Milne, Pascal Nemirovski, Pascal Roge, Jerome Rose, Martino Tirimo and Vassilis Varvaressos. She has won prizes in several piano competitions including 1stprize and a scholarship at Kozani International Music Festival 2014, 2ndprize at the 4thPan-Hellenic Competition Maria Cherogiorgou-Sigara 2012. She was a finalist in the 2017 intercollegiate John Longmire Beethoven Piano Competition.
Angelina regularly performs in concerts, playing solo piano repertoire and chamber music. She formed "Duo Dithyrambico" with Christos Fountos, performing repertoire for piano 4-hands and two pianos. Angelina has played as an orchestral pianist with Trinity Laban Winds Orchestra, including a performance at Blackheath Halls.
She has performed, inter alia, at the Athens Concert Hall, the ‘Musical Odyssey,’ in Nafplio and in Manos Hadjidakis’ house in Xanthi, Greece;;;; the “Giovani in Musica” Festival in Grosseto, Italy;;;; the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building in Oxford, the Royal Academy of Arts in the frame of the Oceania exhibition, the Polish Heart Club, the Hellenic Centre. Her interest in contemporary music led her to participate in Trinity Laban’s New Lights Piano Festival which hosted Michael Finnissy. In February 2019, she performed at Tate Modern Museum as part of a collaborative project between musicians, dancers and architects. She has also participated in the anniversary Debussy Festival and the Brahms Festival at Trinity Laban. One of her last appearances was in the Concerti di Tempietto Festival in Rome, last August.
Her teaching experience includes teaching theory of music, teaching assistant at the Young Musician`s Summer School. She has also been administrative consultant in International Summer Schools of Greek language and culture, organised by the Non-Governmental Organization ";;;Thrace Treasury";;;.

Availability: 7 days a week
Online or in person.

Willing to travel: 12 miles

Experience: I have been teaching piano privately 6 years including group classes for music theory as a part time job in a music studio. In that time I have prepared many of my students both for the ABRSM and Trinity College exams.
I have worked as a teaching assistant volunteering and paid respectively for the Animate Orchestra curated by Jason Rowland and Trinity Laban, and the Summer School for Young musicians. In these projects I supported the main teachers of the groups by helping the students individually to learn a piece-show them on the piano, or practice ways for it-or accompany them when needed to sing. Furthermore, working in a part time job as a carer for a disabled child, made me particularly flexible with situations where you have to change your method or approach to any student. Therefore, I always try to adjust at someone’s need. When I can, I prefer to use a specific method. For beginners I choose Thompson’s books as I believe they include all the first steps very organised. If it is possible, I try to start teaching notes and the basic things without a book. In some occasions, I’ve noticed that is faster for a child to memorize and start recognizing the notes if she/he doesn’t have to read from a book. That happens because they write the notes more often than they would if they had a book. If that way is successful I try to remain open to choose the pieces I’ll give to the student and help her/him develop their artistic side as early as possible.

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