All About the Winter Piano Recital, 25th January 2014 at 4.45pm

Our biggest event of the year took place at the beautiful venue of All Saints Church in West Dulwich. We were delighted to have such a magnificent venue for our recital. All our students played wonderfully and we were particularly proud of our youngest students who performed for the very first time. You can see edited highlights of the concert below.

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Please email any photos you have to us or add them to our Facebook page.
Bravo to all our wonderful performers!

You can read the programme online by clicking on the front cover image below:

Click image to read our online Yearbook
Click image to read our online Yearbook

Tunes to inspire young pianists – James Bond Concert Etude & Bohemian Rhapsody by Emmanuel Vass

Earlier in May this year, I was very fortunate to be introduced to up and coming young pianist Emmanuel Vass by my colleague Frances Wilson. Frances had met Manny on his tour for his CD, “From Bach to Bond“. Manny very kindly agreed to perform at the launch event for the London Piano Meetup Group and was so popular that we decided to book him to perform at the South London Concert Series in January. Unsurprisingly, the tickets are nearly sold out for his recital even though we are two months away. Manny is Classic FM’s latest featured artist which is a fantastic achievement for a recent graduate and such a young pianist.

Students age 8+ are invited to come and hear Emmanuel perform in Waterloo on the 27th January. You can book tickets here. Here are some videos of him in action to provide some inspiration! Manny has arranged various Bond themes into this stunning Concert Etude:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkgnNrbA-CM

This version of Bohemian Rhapsody is brilliant too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGeCVPjuwPo

Click to book tickets - just six left!
Click to book tickets – just six left!
Photo Credit: Emma Phillipson

A letter to SE22 Piano School students from Lorraine Liyanage

Dear Pianists

I am writing to explain why we will no longer chase students who do not pay on time. Some of you may think this is an unnecessarily strict rule so I would like explain why we are doing this.

We have higher than ever numbers of pianists on our roster now. We are fully booked for lessons and have a very long waiting list.  Because of this, it is no longer possible to deal with the extra administration caused by late payers. Much of Lorraine’s holiday time is spent chasing students for payments and this is impacting on the time she would like to spend with her family and her many other musical activities linked to the piano school such organising school trips, the annual Winter Piano Recital and the Dulwich Music Festival. We have therefore taken the decision to automatically cancel the agreement for piano lessons for late payers and offer these spaces to people on the waiting list.

All students have agreed to the terms and conditions but there is a small yet significant number of late payers each term.

If you do not pay on time, your teacher does not get paid, and we pride ourselves on ensuring all our teachers are paid on time. Nobody should be expected to work for free, but this is the situation if our invoices are not paid on time. We publish the payment dates for the entire term in advance (see below) to help you ensure that you pay us on time. Hereon, if we do not receive your payment on time, we will assume that you no longer wish to have piano lessons with us and your space will be offered to the waiting list. We will not email you to chase payment but we will email you to inform you that lessons have been cancelled. 

The payment schedule is always available online for you to view. Please bookmark this page: http://www.se22piano.co.uk/timetable/

If you are going on holiday and will be unable to make payment on Monday 16th of December, we recommend you do the following:

1) Set up a Standing Order payment for this date. Remember to allow time for it to clear if your bank does not use Faster Payments.

2) Pay in cash at the lesson before this date.

If your lesson is not on Monday 16 December, the same rules apply and your bill needs to be settled on this date, not on any following days in that same week.

If you are unsure about any of the above, please email Lorraine.

Thank you for your cooperation in ensuring the SE22 Piano School runs efficiently.

Regards
SE22 Piano School

Rates:
30 mins/£25
60 mins/£50


Autumn Term  (2013)
Monday 4 November to Saturday 21 December (7 weeks)

Third Payment Due on 16/12/2013:
7 lessons

Week 1 – 4th Nov
Week 2 – 11th Nov
Week 3 – 18th Nov
Week 4 – 25 Nov
Week 5 – 2 Dec
Week 6 – 9 Dec
Week 7 – 16 Dec (Payment due for 7 lessons)
Holiday: 22 Dec – 5th January (2 weeks)

Spring Term (2014)
Monday 6 January to Saturday 15 February (7 weeks)
Holiday: Sunday 16 February to Sunday 23 February
Monday 24 February to Saturday 5 April (6 weeks)
Holiday: Sunday 6 April to Sunday 20 April

Week 1 – 6 Jan
Week 2 – 13 Jan
Week 3 – 20 Jan
Week 4 – 27 Jan (Student Recital 25 Jan at All Saint’s Church)
Week 5 – 3 Feb
Week 6 – 10 Feb
Week 7 – 17 Feb (Payment due for 6 lessons)
Holiday: Monday 17 February to Sunday 23 February

Week 1 – 24 Feb
Week 2 – 3 Mar
Week 3 – 10 Mar
Week 4 – 17 Mar
Week 5 – 24 Mar
Week 6 – 31 Mar (Payment due for 5 lessons)

Summer Term (2014)
Monday 21 April – Saturday 24 May*
Holiday: Sunday 25 May to Sunday 1 June May
Monday 2 June to Saturday 26 July

Week 1 – 21 Apr
Week 2 – 28 Apr
Week 3 – 5 May
Week 4 – 12 May
Week 5 – 19 May (Payment due for 8 lessons)
Holiday: Sunday 25 May to Sunday 1 June May 

Week 1 – 2 Jun
Week 2 – 9 Jun
Week 3 – 16 Jun
Week 4 – 23 Jun
Week 5 – 30 Jun
Week 6 – 7 Jul
Week 7 – 14 Jul
Week 8 – 21 Jul

*Nb We offer lessons on all Bank Holidays so that all students receive the same number of lessons throughout the academic year.

Total Lessons in 2013/2014 = 40


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