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Read our review of our annual student piano recital at the Michael Croft Theatre at Alleyn’s School.

We had 3 concerts over the space of 8 hours. Over 300 audience members and participants took part in the event! We had guest performances from opera singers Adwoa Dickson and Teuta Koco and saxophonist Barry Sullivan. SE22 Piano School students, past and present, came to perform. We were delighted that Joe Ruddleston joined us Bristol where he is studying music to perform a gorgeous piece by Liszt. Other guest performers included Madelaine Jones and Helen Burford.

Here is a video of Safiya performing one of her Grade 3 ABRSM Piano pieces. Safiya recently sat the exam and gained a Distinction. Congratulations, Safiya!

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Award Winners:

Junior Shield – Poppy W.
Senior Shield – Pedro and Inigo
Beginners’ Cup – Hannah
Theory Cup – Boo
ABRSM Superstar – Safiya and Maggie-Anne
Rockschool Superstar – Agnes

We held our Winter Recital at Kingsdale Foundation School. My colleague Frances Wilson presented the award for Best Ensemble performance. She wrote the following review of the event:

Yesterday afternoon I had the great pleasure of playing as a “guest performer” at the Winter Concert given by students of the SE22 Piano School, a busy and popular piano teaching practice in East Dulwich (south-east London) run by my colleague and ‘piano chum’, Lorraine Liyanage.

This was, in fact, the second of two concerts. The first concert, earlier in the afternoon, was for more advanced students, and some very talented guest performers. I was invited to play, and to award a prize for the “most exciting performance” by the children. It was a very enjoyable event, despite the sat-nav in my car going slightly bonkers in Clapham and literally forcing me to drive in a circle, instead of directing me to the South Circular road. The venue was the very impressive (but cold!) music centre at Kingsdale Foundation School, and students performed a varied mix of repertoire. It was lovely to see even the most junior students, some of whom were pre-schoolers, playing, if only just Middle C and Middle D. A local catering company provided delicious homemade cakes for the interval, and the whole event had an extremely friendly and supportive atmosphere. There were also performances by cellists, violinists and a clarinettist, while Lorraine’s colleague, Petra, and Lorraine herself, performed Baroque works on the harpsichord, which the SE22 Piano School is fortunate to own.

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