Choosing the Right Piano Teacher for You...



Shine Music School Parramatta consistently delivers better results and more fun for you our students by using advanced teaching techniques and the very best teaching staff

Located in Parramatta, Shine Music School has an outstanding record of success with delivering great results for all our piano students. Our piano teachers use their university qualifications and performance experience to ensure all piano students make substantial improvement and learn to enjoy and appreciate the piano.

With advanced multimedia facilities in each piano room along with boundless performance and examination possibilities, Shine Music School ensures every piano student receives overwhelming support to help them reach their highest potential. We teach piano students from as young as three up to as young as 95 so it is never too late to start learning. All classes are one on classes, so each lesson is tailored specifically to each student's skill level and individual learning desires. Just remember, practice makes perfect and at Shine Music School, it is our job to inspire you to practice!

Depending on you or your child's individual wants and needs we teach you the following piano lessons

  • Beginner Piano Lessons
  • Adult piano lessons
  • Young beginner piano lessons
  • Reading music for piano
  • Piano scales
  • Intermediate piano technique
  • Piano exam preparation
  • Contemporary piano (all your favourite chart topping artists are printed out with ease!)
  • Classical piano
  • Jazz piano
  • Piano for leisure syllabus
  • Piano improvisation
  • Suzuki piano method
  • Australian Music Examinations Board Piano preparation
  • AMEB Piano preparation
  • Trinity Piano preparation
  • ABRSM Piano prepration
  • Piano theory
  • Diploma level piano lessons

So Why Choose Shine Music for Piano Lessons?

Shine Music School is an amazing fun environment that you or your child will look forward to coming to time and time again as you or your child work towards piano mastery. Here are great reasons to choose Shine Music for your piano lessons.

  1. Advanced teaching techniques enabling you or your child to reach faster results and have more fun
  2. One on One lessons for 100% individual attention and personalised progress in the direction that you want to go
  3. Leading edge internet enabled teaching studios to allow for us to teach you and your child and song you request
  4. 100% A grading or higher in our 2011 1st metropolitan piano exams
  5. All teachers are tertiary educated and full time music teachers
  6. Walking distance from train station
  7. Sound proof rooms
  8. Free parking

And much, much more...

Meet your Piano Lesson Expert Teaching Staff

Beata
Bachelor of Music
Beata loves to share her tremendous passion for piano and music with both young and old. An amazing piano performer, Beata's favourite composers include Rachmaninoff and the world famous Yiruma ( the composer of River Flows In You: Twilight). So that all her students receive their favourite pieces to practice, Beata constantly uses different piano books to teach different pieces along with searching the internet for everybody's favourite piano scores.

Isabella
Bachelor of Music Education
Isabella has been surrounded by music all her life participating in every orchestra and choir that has been presented to her. She now enjoys passing on her volumes of music experience to her piano students and spends much of her spare time performing and volunteering for charitable organisations like the Australian Red Cross, Westmead Children's Hospital and the Australian Hungarian Scouts Association

Isabella

Virginia
Bachelor of Music
Virginia has a long list of teaching experience with the most notable holding a teaching position in both piano and violin at the New England Conservatorium of Music. Virginia is originally from Armidale, northern NSW and has now settled in Sydney, spreading her music teaching wings here. Apart from being a classical music specialist, Virginia loves to explore folk and gypsy music to add new dimensions to both her playing and teaching.

Isabella

Will
Graduate Diploma of Education, Diploma of Music, Certificate of Music
Will has had experience teaching music in both high schools and studio situation. Trained in classical music, Will's aim in teaching is to expose students to as many forms of music as possible. From blues scales to jazz improvisation and new release pop pieces, Will's students are promised never to be bored from limited repertoire.

Will
Will explaining how to practice scales hands together Will explaining how to read left hand notes

Sarah
Bachelor of Music
Sarah is Shine Music School's resident Suzuki method piano, violin and flute teacher. Being trained as a Suzuki method teacher, Sarah teaches children as young as one years old! A lesson with Sarah is often like a 30 minute wiggles concert, where there is lots of singing, clapping and playing to ensure each student is 100% motivated with an energy charged learning environment. Sarah only teaches at Shine Music School on Tuesday afternoons and has a very tight timetable so please call in advance to reserve your spot.

Sunhae
Postgraduate Diploma of Music
Sunhae is a multi-talented artist who is both talented in fine arts and also in music. Possessing a degree in both art and music, Sunhae loves to teach piano and pass on the correct technique to both beginners and advanced students. Apart from teaching, Sunhae likes to perform at church.

Here's the Most Frequently Asked Questions we receive about the Piano School

Is the piano the best instrument to start with?

Does starting the piano mean purchasing a piano?

Which is the appropriate style that piano students be taught? Popular, Jazz or Classical?

How much does the student need to practice?

When is a child suitable to start piano lessons?

What are music examinations?

How much do piano lessons at Shine Music School cost?

Is the piano the best instrument to start with?

For most musicians, having some piano skills is very helpful. At Shine Music School, we believe there is no reason to begin your music lessons on the piano if this is not the instrument you are most attracted to. What makes for successful music study is long term practice. What makes for successful long-term practice is an interest in the instrument. So if the piano is interesting to you, go ahead and start some lessons. If the piano is not to your liking, it will be more beneficial to start playing an instrument you or the student actually wants to play.

Does starting the piano mean purchasing a piano?

It is a great advantage for piano students to star with pianos as the hammer action of the keys builds the finger strength of the students and provides much stronger technical development. However, spending $2,000 on a piano is not the most appealing prospect.

Keyboards are a more budget friendly and is suitable for beginners to start practicing with. With the intention of purchasing a piano further down the track, cheap keyboards are available. The main thing is that the keyboard you practice with has full sized keys. Teachers will advise parents when the potential of the student has developed past the keyboard. Shine Music School will be able to advise parents of where to purchase pianos that are most suitable for their budget.

Which is the appropriate style that piano students be taught? Popular, Jazz or Classical?

The piano enjoys a status of being the most popular instrument in the world. It is renown for having composers like Beethoven, Mozart and also at the same time being played by pop stars like Delta Goodrem, Alicia Keys and features in many film classics like Titanic, Aladdin and Harry Potter. So with such a wide selection of piano repertoire available, which is best for students learning piano?

At Shine Music School, we recommend the music that the student is inspired by. The music that will make them practice the most. So if the student likes Beethoven, practice Beethoven. If the student likes Disney or Delta Goodrem, practice Disney or Delta Goodrem. If the student likes both, we are more than happy to teach both. Both popular/jazz and classical music requires time, rhythm and note reading skills so they will be building their technique as they learn.

For students who want to complete piano exams, Shine Music School has sourced both classical and jazz exams. Classical and popular exams are facilitated by the Australian Music Examinations Board ( AMEB) and Jazz exams are facilitated by the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music UK ( ABRSM). All are excellent syllabuses and are well balanced to encompass both reading and aural skills. Feel free to call us on (02) 96879978 if you have any questions about any of the piano exams.

How much does the student need to practice?

Practicing everyday is the most effective and fastest way of improving your skills as a musician. If you practice only every now and then, your improvement will be inconsistent. Even with just 10 minutes every day, you will notice an improvement week to week. Of course, the longer you practice every day, the better, 30 minutes is a good goal to aim for, as long as it is everyday!

When is a child suitable to start piano lessons?

At Shine Music School, our youngest piano students start from four and a half years old. To start piano lessons the student must be able to:

  •  Comfortably recite the ABC
  •  Comfortably count to 10
  •  Be able to sit down and focus for at least 20 minutes
  •  Be willing to practice 15 minutes each day
  •  Answer questions like "What comes before the letter C?"
  •  Answer questions like "What comes before the number five?"

In order to allow young students to learn and have fun during class, Shine Music School teachers will use a combination of drawing, writing, playing and clapping to allow the young student to maintain a strong interest throughout class.

What are music examinations?

Music examinations are a good tool for students who want to continually improve their playing and performance ability and to have their playing ability graded on a recurring basis. Music examinations allow students to grade their performance ability every six months ( certain instruments ), provides goals for students to aim for and provides a professional grading system for students. Shine Music School encourages exams but are not enforced on students. Our primary aim is for students to have fun exploring their chosen instrument.

Students are only encouraged to attempt examinations when they have attained a certain level of competence and ability. At Shine Music School, all our teachers are Australian Music Examinations Board ( AMEB ) , Contemporary Popular Music ( CPM) and Associated Board of the Royal School of Music ( ABRSM UK) registered and we cater for Jazz, Rock, Pop and Classical exams for all instruments. 

How much do piano lessons at Shine Music School cost?

Click here to view our most up to date fee schedule

Click here to meet the Piano teachers at Shine Music School

Your Next Steps

Call us on (02) 9687 9978 to discuss what you would like to learn or achieve with the piano and we can make sure we are a perfect match for each other with your free lesson. Alternatively enter your details below now and we'll contact you in the next 1-2 business days.