I have been playing and teaching the Clarinet 15 years and in that time I have developed and approach that is personalised for each student, covering all the fundamentals of clarinet technic and music theory.

I’m happy to teach all levels and abilities and try to incorporate different styles into my lessons from classical repertoire to popular songs and improvisation.

I am a seasoned performer, performing solo, chamber and orchestral music in the U.K, Europe, Canada and South Africa. As well as teaching privately I teach at the Hall School, Hampstead. I am an experienced, patient and friendly teacher. Below are my teaching principles. For further information/biography/recordings please visit my website www.shelleylevy.com

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– I have been inspired from my own education, having studied with outstanding teachers in different countries, and through these experiences I have developed my teaching skills.
– It is very rewarding for me to use my skills with children in creative ways that will bring out each
child’s individual musical and technical potential.
-As an expressive player I try to share my experience of music with my students and hope to instil in my students a sense of the joy that I myself experience in music making.
– I consider myself to be a considerate and intuitive teacher and with this am able to identify and understand the musical/technical obstacles a child might have, and find ways of helping children of different potentials find their own personal connection to musical expression.
-Students achieve excellent results and many Distinctions in ABRSM and Trinity Guildhall exams.
-Students are encouraged to perform in concerts to inspire confidence.

I graduated from the university of Cape Town and was then awarded a prestigious Swiss Government Scholarship to study and the Geneva Conservatoire Switzerland, before continuing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. My teachers have included Oliver de Groote, Thomas Friedli, Walter Boeykens , Thea King and Michael Whight.

I won the Oudermeester competition for wind instruments, the Natal 75th Anniversary Prize for orchestral instruments and the wind category of the ATKV FORTE competition in South Africa and was a woodwind finalist in the Royal Overseas League Competition in London. I have freelanced with the Natal Philharmonic orchestra, the CapeTown Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, amongst others. I’ve given numerous solo and chamber music concerts in South Africa, Europe and Canada, also giving concerto appearances with all the major symphony orchestras in South Africa and chamber music concerts in the Demetria and Sani international festivals in Greece,Aberdeen chamber music concerts and Piano Week international festival and summer school. Uk performances have included concerts in the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall. I’ve been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 with Leto ensemble and recorded and album with Ensemble Burletta on Toccato Classics record label, this received glowing reviews in Gramophone Magazine.

Hiu-Lam Lo currently holds a Chamber Music Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Here she cultivates her commitment to collaborative performance and the promotion of chamber music in innovative spaces outside the confines of the concert hall.

As an active chamber musician: Hiu-Lam has recently performed R. Strauss Symphony for winds alongside Michael Collins; played Thuille Sextet in the 2019 Guildhall Chamber Music Festival; has performed and recorded Brahms Clarinet Quintet in London last June.  Her collaborative work spans from small chamber groups to large ensembles. She has worked with the Vita Quintet, Ubu Ensemble, VU Orkest (NL). Hiu-Lam is one of the founding members of the Lakeside Clarinet Quartet which was featured in the 2019 Edition of Barbican ‘Sound Unbound’ Series: the group has appeared in festivals in the UK and Europe such as Ely Chamber Music, Lliría Clarinet Festival (ES), and the Guildhall Chamber Music Festival. In March, the quartet has been invited to perform and give workshops at the Sage Gateshead Young Musicians Programme.
As an orchestral player, she has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle and Elim Chan at the Barbican Hall. She has also led the section of the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vassily Sinaisky, Tim Redmond, Takuo Yuasa, Roberto González Monjas and Richard Farnes. As a soloist, she recently performed and recorded Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Timía Chamber Orchestra in London under the baton of Sofia Presta.

In 2019, Hiu-Lam was awarded a Masters of Music in Performance with first class Distinction at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she was generously supported by the Gillian and Freddie Martin Award and a Guildhall Scholarship.

In her time at the Guildhall School, Hiu-Lam studied with Prof. Andrew Marriner and Andrew Webster, receiving further guidance from Jennifer McLaren and Robert Ault. She was in the class of Harrie Troquet at Het Conservatorium Utrecht, where she obtained a Bachelor Degree with Honours in 2017. Other musicians Hiu-Lam has worked with and received masterclasses from include Martin Choy, Olivier Patey, Nicolas Cox, Nuno Pinto, Antonio Fraioli, David Howard, Michael Collins and Chris Richards.

Hannah is a professional clarinet and bass clarinet specialist, and educator based in London. She studied a Masters in Bass Clarinet Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. In 2019, Hannah was a finalist in the first ever Silverstein Global Clarinet Contest, and has been named one of their ‘artists of the next generation’. More recently in 2020, Hannah was a semi-finalist in the Trinity Laban Soloists competition with Michele Mangani’s Bass Clarinet concerto.

Hannah is currently a member of ‘New Woods Collective’, a trio of bass clarinet, flute and piano specialising in contemporary repertoire.

Hannah received a First Class Honours Bachelor of Music from the University Of Southampton in 2018, being awarded the Peter Evans Prize for performance excellence. At the University Of Southampton Hannah studied bass clarinet with Helen Paskins.

Hannah most notably performs as a solo performer, predominantly on bass clarinet. Since 2015 Hannah has been playing alongside pianist and fellow Southampton alumni Dan Keen. She has a large repertoire list, consisting of mostly contemporary pieces, including works that are unaccompanied, with piano accompaniment and with electronic backing.

In 2018, Hannah won the John Ireland prize for her performance of his Fantasy Sonata for clarinet and piano. Hannah has lots of experience playing bass clarinet, clarinet and Eb clarinet with many orchestras across London and the South of England. Hannah was a Leverhulme Scholar with the National Youth Wind Orchestra of GB in 2017. Hannah was chosen to play with the European Union Chamber Orchestra in 2018 when they performed a concert at Turner Sims, Southampton. Hannah also played bass clarinet in the ‘Progression Ensemble’ for the only UK date in Grammy Award winning pianist Bill Laurances’ 2018 tour. Hannah more recently performed at the 2019 European Clarinet Festival held in Camerino, Italy.

Clarinet, saxophone and recorder teacher; special interest in beginners and those with additional needs.
Experience teaching using adapted instruments.

Charlotte is a Clarinettist and Recorder player who has played with orchestras including Britten Sinfonia, Orchestre de Picardie, The Hanover Band and Academy of Ancient Music playing alongside Tony Pay. She is an enthusiastic educator teaching Clarinet and Recorder students ages 8 plus. Charlotte also teaches Saxophone and beginner piano and is a music theory tutor for ABRSM up to grade 5. Her lessons are tailored to the individual needs of the student in order to support them in well-rounded musicianship and instrumental playing.

Charlotte was awarded the Chairman’s Prize when graduating from Guildhall School of Music and Drama with a distinction in MMus and MPerf in Orchestral Artistry, a Masters paired with the London Symphony Orchestra. She also received a 1st in her BMus Hons in Classical Clarinet and Recorders where she studied with Andrew Marriner and Ian Wilson. In the academic year 2019-2020 Charlotte was a Double Junior Fellow in Chamber Music and Recorder at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Charlotte has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 numerous times both as a soloist and chamber musician and has performed at the Barbican SoundUnbound Festival.  She was a finalist at The Yamaha Clarinet competition and her studies have been generously supported by The Countess Munster Trust, The Tillet Trust and Colin Keer Trust, Help Musicians UK, The Felicity Belfield Trust, The EMI Sound Foundation and was a Post Graduate and Undergraduate Scholar at Guildhall.

Mark took up the clarinet at the age of eight. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for 4 years and went on to study with Sidney Fell, and at the Royal Academy of Music, with Richard Addison and Keith Puddy.

He has performed regularly with many of the UK’s leading opera companies including English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Cambridge Opera Group,  Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera, Carl Rosa Opera Company and Pimlico Opera.

Mark has also performed in many theatre productions, for Chichester Festival Theatre, (including the national tour and the West End transfer of Nicholas Nickleby) the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse.

An active chamber musician, Mark is a founder member of chamber group Harmoniemusik with which he has travelled widely giving more than 300 concerts in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and beyond since it was founded in 1991.

As a teacher, Mark has taught at prep schools, secondary schools and privately for more than 40 years and currently teaches the clarinet and bass clarinet to adult pupils of all standards in North London.

Professional freelance musician based in London. I have been teaching professionally for 8 years for students from complete beginner to diploma level and beyond, from ages 4 to adult. I am an adaptable, experienced teacher who always puts the needs of my students at the core of my teaching. Whether you are interested in doing ABRSM exams and serious study, or, just learning for fun I am happy to cater to every student’s needs. My ABRSM pass rate is 100%, with 96% of my students achieving merit or higher. It would be a pleasure to connect with you.

Nikolay currently study in Guildhall School of music and drama with Michael Collins on the “Art of performance- classical clarinet” course.

Nikolay graduated from Gnessin Music School in Moscow in 2017 with honour as clarinetis and pianist. He wrote a methodical dissertation for which got the highest mark. Since then he is a qualified artist and teacher. Nikolay has been teaching clarinet and piano for 6 years now.

Nikolay`s style of teaching combined all the best things: methodical thoroughness, engaging and entertaining approach, motivating and aspiring the students, uniqe method and programme for each student. Nikolay has an experience of preparing students for all sorts of auditions: ABRSM grades, school`s and university`s auditions.

Nikolay had lessons with the most prominent clarinetist from over the world: Andrew Marriner, Joy Farral, Andrew Webster, Christopher Richards, Ben Mellefont, Jennifer Maclaren, Mark Simpson, Katherine Lacey, Olli Liepanniemi, Caroline Hartig, Evgeny Petrov.

As a performer, Nikolay leads a career of a solo and chamber musician with loads of concert activities. Nikolay won prizes on several international competitions. Also he held principal clarinet position in several symphony, chamber and wind orchestras.