PIANO COURSES

Melanie has tutored a wide range of piano courses. These include Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Finchcocks Music, and the Overseas Masters Winter Piano Academy held at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She has also taught and given workshops at The Thinking Pianist and the Montecatini International Piano Festival in Italy.

Other projects include an ongoing bilingual community piano class in Germany, giving workshops at the IKM Gelsenkirchen, near Düsseldorf. In 2021, she directed the Chetham’s Piano Teachers’ Course at the Chetham’s International Piano Summer School in Manchester (U.K.). In 2023, Melanie directed a two-day teacher training programme at the Cristofori Music School in Singapore. And in 2023 and 2024, she gave further courses and classes for teachers and students at the Tom Lee Academy in Hong Kong. 

PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES & WORKSHOPS

Pedagogy presentations: the 2017 UCSI University Piano Pedagogy Conference in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), the 2019 Frankfurt Musik Messe (Germany), and in Jakarta (Indonesia) at the I-MEC. There, she gave a week of classes and workshops for teachers and students. This was part of the 2019 – 2020 Cantata Youth Music Scheme. In 2023, Melanie delivered workshops for teachers and classes for students in Dubai at the Centre For Musical Arts and Dubai College. In Oman, she delivered workshops at the Classic Music and Arts Centre in Muscat. 

Workshop programmes in the Far East specifically for teachers include presentations at the Cristofori Music School, Kawai Music School, Virtuo Music Studio, and The Musique Loft, all based in Singapore. And the Sinfonia Music Studio (Johor Bahru), Encore Music Centre (Melaka), and Gloria Musica School of Music (Kuala Lumpur), all based in Malaysia. In addition, presentations were held at Tom Lee Academy and Parsons Music School, both based in Hong Kong. And during 2018, she undertook a book tour of Malaysia and Indonesia specifically for Schott Music, presenting workshops and lectures for teachers in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Surabaya.

During 2024, Melanie returned to Bangkok to adjudicate piano competition classes, and undertook an extended tour of Australia and the Far East, where she presented workshops for teachers in Singapore and Hong Kong. At the 2024 Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference held at Monash University in Melbourne, she gave three presentations including a keynote address speech. Further workshops included visits to Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, and Brisbane.

Melanie was a speaker at the Music & Drama Education Expo 2025 in London, presenting a workshop for teachers, and she gave a series of piano master classes at the Royal Academy of Music in London for First Education Group’s piano students in August 2025.

Online Programmes

Online piano programmes for piano teachers have included the Tom Lee Academy in Hong Kong, as well as a series of online classes for the First Education Group based in Hong Kong and Macau. Recent online webinars: Jackdaws Music Education Trust, London Chinese Children’s Ensemble, three webinars for Pianist Magazine which now appear on the Magazine’s new Pianist Prime subscription platform, as well as a webinar for over 700 piano teachers hosted by Hal Leonard USA.

Other online events: a seminar focusing on piano exams to teachers at the U.S.-based Online Piano Global Summit, piano technique workshops for the Music Teachers’ Association of South Australia and for EPTA UK members (European Piano Teachers Association).

Previous piano teaching positions: Royal Holloway University of London, Reading University, Royal College of Music Junior Department, and Wycombe Abbey School. Melanie has considerable experience working with students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.   

Current and former students have performed at some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, have won undergraduate and postgraduate places (including scholarships) to study the piano at various music conservatoires, and have obtained a wide range of piano diplomas.

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