Dear Visitor


welcomes beginners, intermediate-level and advanced musicians from all age groups.

GéNIA and appointed GéNIA MUSIC teachers will be happy to work with you and offer our teaching services. We will expand your abilities on the piano: improve your technique, increase the flexibility of your hands, show how to achieve a different qualities of sound and help to choose a repertoire which is close to your heart as well as to your abilities.

Apart from the standard one to one individual piano tuition, GéNIA MUSIC PIANO SCHOOL can offer you a number of different courses and programmes.

Once a year you will be offered a chance to perform publicly in a concert together with other students of GéNIA MUSIC.

And if you are a pupil aged under 16 you will get a prize for every 100 points you earn with your lessons -- it is up to you to take up the challenge!

On this web site you can get more information about GéNIA's performances and education, learn more about her unique teaching system and find out how to enroll to GéNIA MUSIC Piano School.

If you have any questions you are welcome to contact us via email or telephone.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

With best wishes,

GéNIA and GéNIA MUSIC team
2009

We teach at Schott Music Ltd , 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB

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The lessons are also available in Mayfair, Kensington, Marylebone, Regent's Park, Belsize Park, Primrose Hill, Hampstead and Highgate areas.

Please contact us for enquires

via email or phone:

+44 (0) 20 7226 9829

+ 44 (0) 7948 447 492

GéNIA MUSIC

In today’s world of the Internet, every-day use of the telephone and rapid data transmission by broadband communications, everything happens so fast. In every market the choice is so great that this alone puts us under pressure every second of our lives: the constant information overload, millions of things which need constant attention, ongoing automated transactions, quite apart from the sudden changes of environment imposed on us by high-speed air travel.

In spite of all these changes in the outside world, the majority of piano schools are still using systems which were formed fifty or even a hundred years ago.

Although their teaching methods have many established good qualities, this "old school" system sometimes makes it difficult for teachers to communicate with the modern world. GéNIA takes all this into account and offers a system specifically designed for the way people live now.


GéNIA believes that support of individuality and self-confidence are the main keys to success. The primary aim of the method is to make the individual think and feel as an independent and creative artist.

Not only does it concentrate on issues of piano technique, public performance and personal practice, but it also pays significant attention to the whole body-mind processes.

The method teaches its students how to grasp the concept lying behind the music. Through this deep understanding it allows people to become familiar with a musical work and therefore to learn it quicker.

GéNIA’s method pays a lot of attention to whole-body function, as exemplified by Alexander Technique, so that one can develop a piano style that works in conjunction with individual physique, not against it. She believes that the use of the whole body, helps to achieve maximum results with less but more effective work.

For GéNIA the actual Sound is paramount: "People perceive music firstly through the sound and secondly through the concept. Therefore sound itself can have healing qualities". She teaches how to master different qualities of Sound and develop listening technique; how to express your ideas and feeling through the sound by a wide palette of techniques.

GéNIA also helps students develop their pedalling nuances, whereby effective use of both pedals will enable you to expand your coloring technique on the piano.

The method not only imparts this knowledge but also teaches how to plan the learning and practising process according to individual needs and circumstances.

The final aim is to empower you with a thorough knowledge of GéNIA MUSIC teaching and show how to operate these skills in a working environment, so you end up becoming an independent and professional artist. By so doing, an entirely new understanding of total technique, the servant of artistic expression, is achieved.

'After eight years of formal piano lessons and twelve years of not playing, the idea of starting again made me very nervous.  Based on my previous old school experience, I expected to have to spend months playing scales and technical exercises before being able to enjoy playing to my old standard.  GéNIA’s Piano-Yoga® was a real revelation to me.  In a few weeks I was already playing a lot of my old repertoire.  I highly recommend Piano-Yoga® to busy people who wish to get the most out of their practice time.'

Aiman Mukanova, Commodities Structurer & Marketer, Standard Bank Plc.

'My ten year-old son had been studying the piano for two years before he started a weekly lesson with GéNIA. After only six weeks his performance was transformed. A few weeks later he gave a short recital at his school and received an unprecedented standing ovation from staff and pupils.'        

Max Gammon, Private Medical Consultant

'Piano-Yoga® helped me release tension, and simply concentrate on playing the piano. GéNIA's approach to tuition makes practice a pleasure.'

Jamie Telford, Composer

'In supporting and participating in GéNIA's masterclasses I can vouchsafe for her passion and commitment to piano teaching and performance at the highest level. GéNIA is an outstanding and versatile musician with a warm engaging personality. As a coach, her sense of humour and enthusiasm encourages participation and response inspiring confidence at what ever stage of playing. Allowing students to feel relaxed is part of her magic along with focus and imaginative interpretation; bringing out the best in them with consummate patience and skill.'
Simon Markson, managing director of Markson Pianos

“I have been a visiting student at the Guildhall School of Music for many years and one of my piano teachers after the Guildhall was a pupil of Vlado Perlmuter; more recently I have been studying with some outstanding cello teachers. However GéNIA is absolutely the finest teacher of any musical instrument I have encountered in 60 years.

GéNIA makes absolutely clear the hierarchical relationship between mental processes, bodily action and artistic effect. Her strong interest in Yoga over recent years has added a further dimension to her ability to inspire pupils through a deeper understanding of how sound is controlled, freely and without pain or strain, at the keyboard.'

Michael Bird, Retired publisher

'Piano-Yoga® exercises have helped me develop strength and flexibility in my fingers, which is essential for beginners like me'

Julius Beltrame, Director of Operations, Europe Telecommunication Systems Ltd.

My students are performing soon and I would love to know a list of the "good and bad" food choices for performance. Also, please let me know when your book comes out. I loved your presentation. Everything made so much sense.  Thanks again.

Denise Apodaca, Piano Teacher, USA

Yukiko Shinohara was born in Ibaraki, Japan and studied at Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School for Fine Arts and Music. She received her BMus from Goldsmith’s College (University of London) under Susan Bradshaw, and later studied with Douglas Finch at Trinity College of Music where she received an MMus Degree and Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Performance. She also studied with Catherine Vickers in Frankfurt and attended summer schools at Dartington, Darmstadt, Salzburg and Nice.

She was a Park Lane Young Artist in 2001 and has performed Ligeti’s Etudes at the contemporary music festival Composium 2003 in Tokyo and premiered Britten’s early piano works at Aldeburgh Festival.

She performs both as chamber musician and soloist in Japan, U.K, Holland, France and Greece. She is currently on staff as an accompanist at Trinity College of Music.

GéNIA met Yukiko when they both studied at Trinity College of Music with pianist Douglas Finch. In 2007 GéNIA invited Yukiko to join GéNIA MUSIC Piano School.

Individual One - to - One Tuition

Piano-Yoga®
a multi-dimensional method of piano playing, performing and teaching which provides a holistic approach towards playing the piano

How to Transform Your Hands:
for stretching your hands

The Essence of Sound
designed according to your taste and abilities to help you master your sound on the piano

Fluent Sight-Reading
(beginners -- intermediate - advanced).
which will give you the ability to play throughout heaps and heaps of music

Quick Mastering
to help you get prepared in a short time for exams and/or public performances

Ensemble Workshops
to help pianists learn how to work with other instrumentalists and singers.

Teacher Training
for students who would like to start teaching piano.

You have an option to go for :

1. any programme from the above
2. a specially designed programme that combines the individual tuition with required elements from the above courses.

To enrol for GéNIA MUSIC courses, please contact us for details on available appointments and fees or download, fill in and submit this application form.

Pamela Troni & Emma Weatherall

Pamela and Emma are specialising in teaching beginners, both children and adults. More details coming soon.

Piano-Yoga® is a unique method of piano playing, performing and teaching and is designed for all levels pianists. It has been developed by GéNIA and taught be GéNIA only.

Piano-Yoga® aims to transform piano playing through using specific techniques that incorporate the holistic personal development and well-being of the player.

This multi-dimensional method combines the fundamentals of Russian piano schools with Eastern philosophies, particularly yoga. The aims are focusing your piano practice, improving concentration, building strength in the fingers and hands, establishing good posture at the piano and conquering performance nerves.

Buy GéNIA's book on Piano-Yoga®, "Transform your hands: A complete ten week course of piano exercises" ISBN: 978-0-9561184-5-5 ISMN: 979-0-9002160-5-2 £29.50

Piano-Yoga® radically improves technique and unblocks tension. The method promotes noticeable progress on the piano by utilizing the principles of movement, gravity and breathing thus creating a more organic approach towards piano playing. It can also be used as a stress management technique.

Piano-Yoga® is represented online at www.piano-yoga.com where free educational resources are provided, such as the Piano-Yoga® podcast series, exercises designed specifically for pianists, performance preparation advice, useful downloads and a members forum. For more information visit www.piano-yoga.com

To book a lesson or consultation please email anna.thomas@genia-music.com

www.piano-yoga.com

Fees vary from £30 to £75 per lesson. Please contact us for details on available teachers and appointments.

A limited number of scholarships for piano lessons with GéNIA are available:

The scholarship is open to children and young people age 4 - 25. To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter explaining why you or your child would like to be considered for a scholarship. Send to GéNIA MUSIC, Suite 119, 56 Tavistock Place, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9RG, UK. Tel. +44 (0) 20 7226 9829 or email anna.thomas@genia-music.com. The scholarship is awarded at the discretion of GéNIA MUSIC and can be from 50%  to 100%  of the cost of one or more lessons with GéNIA.  The successful applicants will be contacted with proposed date(s) for the lesson(s).

In return we would ask you:
*to be creative and practise between the lessons;

*ask as many questions as you want and concentrate on the lessons;

*come on time and pay promptly for the lessons (for the current fees please enquire by phone or email);

*give a 48-hour notice if you want to cancel a lesson with GéNIA; give a 24-hour notice if you want to cancel a lesson with GéNIA MUSIC teachers. If you are unable to do so you will be required to pay in full for the time you have booked.

*You may book a block of 5 lessons at a time providing that each lesson is taken on a regular basis maximum a fortnight apart. You can still cancel each lesson by giving 48 hours (for lessons with GéNIA) or 24 hours (for lessons with GéNIA MUSIC teachers) before the lesson and have a right to re-arrange it within the period of entire booking (from the date of the first booked lesson to the date of the last booked lesson) providing that there are appointments available. We will do our best to accommodate you but can not guarantee the availability.

photography by Julius Beltrame

Premier Prix GSMD, MMus, LGSM(Dist), PGDipMus(Dist), PGA(Dist), Honours Diploma of Kharkov State Institute of Arts (Ukraine). 

'GéNIA is one of the most exciting, dynamic and daring pianists I've met in recent years. Her approach to the development of piano technique and personal development are both highly effective and original, combining the Russian tradition with a modern musical outlook.'
Douglas Finch, Professor of Piano and Composition, Trinity College of Music

'As a pianist, she is in the world-class, technically and musically-amazing for someone of her age. But she is also an excellent teacher as I noticed when I observed her giving young players the fundaments, and more, of technique, and preparing them for performances as soloists or accompanists. She is strict, to the point, but kindly, establishing a sterling rapport with her students. I can wholeheartedly recommend her as a teacher.'
Paul Hamburger, ARCM, FGSM, Hon.RAM 

GéNIA has been teaching for over 14 years. Alongside a busy artistic career she undertakes educational work by giving master-classes, seminars, lectures and individual tuition. Amongst GéNIA’s students are piano teachers, music students, adult amateur players and a small number of children.

GéNIA has also taught at Trinity College of Music, Dartington and COMA Summer Schools, De Montfort University (Leicester), Lewis University (Peoria, USA), Californian Association of Piano Teachers (CAPMT) in Los-Angeles and EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) International Conference 2007 in Warwick University.

One of GéNIA's most popular workshops is "How To Overcome Stage-Fright and Make Adrenaline Work for You" where she utilizes the principles of Piano-Yoga®. When last held at the International Classicalive Fair, Olympia, London it was completely oversubscribed.

Considering music to be as much a philosophy as it is an art, GéNIA created Piano-Yoga®, a multi-dimensional method of piano playing, performing and teaching which provides a holistic approach towards playing the piano.

GéNIA’s pupils have gone on to become prize-winners at various competitions as well as nominees for music scholarships in various educational establishments in England, including the Westminster and St Marylebone Schools.

Once a year GéNIA holds concerts by her students in St. Cyprian's Church in London. The concerts are open to the public.

In 2008 GéNIA has been appointed as Artist in Residence at Bauer & Hieber Music, London. It is here she founded the GéNIA MUSIC Piano School, where she gives masterclasses, lectures and individual tuition, with a particular focus on a series of popular Piano-Yoga® workshops.