Mainly being a performing violinist, I am also a dedicated, enthusiastic and experienced teacher and currently have spaces available for beginners and advanced students of all ages.

Developing a love and pleasure in music making is central in my lessons. Besides that I am teaching violin technique in a healthy and natural way.

There will be special attention to reading music, posture and ensemble playing. I will also focus on music theory, sight reading and performance skills.

A versatile soloist, chamber musician and writer, Enyuan Khong is committed to promoting music as a tool for connection. Enyuan is currently a Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and graduate in German Literature from the University of Oxford, and uses her multidisciplinary interests to seek this through a variety of mediums, working with composers and artists across fields.

As a teacher, Enyuan seeks to inspire communication and close listening through music, and to instil a stable technical grounding through a natural and holistic process. Enyuan has led chamber music and individual masterclasses as well as outreach work with both mature and very young students, and has coached ABRSM Diploma candidates through Viva Voce, with high Distinction results.

Enyuan has appeared as soloist with the Jenaer Philharmonie, Oxford Philharmonic, Sound Collective Orchestra, Hornton Chamber Orchestra and Oxford Millennium Orchestra in London, Prague, Dresden, Weimar, Berlin and Barcelona. She has performed in major venues in London and abroad, including the Barbican and Wigmore Halls, and the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore. Enyuan is a founding member of the De Beauvoir Piano Trio and has collaborated as a chamber partner with renowned musicians such as Miguel Da Silva, Andreas Frölich, Carole Presland and Ursula Smith. She also performs in festivals across Europe, most recently in the Encuentro Santander and the Oxford Chamber Music Festival.

Enyuan was recipient of the Stephen Bell Charitable Trust Award, the Ivy Sharp Scholarship, as well as winner of the Ivan Sutton Prize and the St James Prize. She received a FRSM Distinction and was a string finalist in the Royal Overseas League Competition. Enyuan is a Finalist in the St Martins Chamber Competition, currently postponed due to Covid-19.

As a keen promoter of contemporary music and cross-arts collaborations, Enyuan works closely with composers and performers across the arts. Among other projects, she worked on a Royal Opera House commission of Matt Rodgers’ opera ‘She Described It to Death’ with members of the London Contemporary Orchestra, gave the world premiere of Thibault Charrin’s Sonata for Violin And Piano, which he dedicated to her, at St James’ Piccadilly, and performed Péter Eötvös’ ‘The Gliding of the Eagle in the Skies’ as concertmaster of the Santander Festival Orchestra. Enyuan is currently working on a collaboration with the dancer Jasmine Chiu, to promote East Asian artists as voices of change.

From a young age I went to a specialised music school in England; Purcell School, before making my way to the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London. I have gained experience working under the renowned Russian professor Natalia Boyarsky, doing a teacher training course at the RCM and numerous workshops as well as teaching privately for over seven years to pupils of all ages and abilities and becoming the violin tutor at Prince’s Gardens prep school (PGP) in London in 2019.

My first taster in teaching came thanks to my wonderful professor Natalia Boyarsky. She encouraged her students to teach and would assign young pupils (five-twelve) with her older pupils (sixteen and upwards) during her summer music courses. We were challenged to achieve certain goals such as have the younger pupil be performance ready after three lessons. This taught us how to verbalise the mechanics of violin playing simply and coherently, which in turn also reminded us of the basics. The phrase ‘if you can not explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough’ springs to mind. Following that, I decided to take a specialised teaching module during my second year at the RCM. I did a placement at Avonmore Primary School which entailed performances, speeches introducing classical music and instruments, group lessons, and one-to-one lessons with pupils aged from five to eleven. Throughout my degree I continued to accumulate private pupils and learn from them whilst teaching them.

At PGP I works with beginners aged five to eleven and have successfully prepared them for ABRSM Music Medals. Furthermore I am currently undergoing ABRSM Music Medal Teacher-Assessor Training as well as familiarising myself with the Suzuki Method of teaching. Even though most of my violin playing years revolved around the Russian school of playing, my teaching has an applied combination of different methods and schools of technique to form a more personal, versatile and methodically structured approach for each individual.
A parent of my pupil has described my teaching method as ‘encouraging and detailed’. My aim is to tune, explore, and expand my pupils’ musical enthusiasm and imagination whilst simultaneously setting them up technically to ensure physical wellbeing, dexterity, and ease.

Lastly, I have experience working with children with autism and other special needs. I am also equally comfortable teaching group lessons as well as one-to-one.  In tandem with my violin teachings I have been preparing students for music aural (ear training), music theory, and harmony exams. All my pupils currently have a 100% distinction rate in ABRSM music theory exams. I believe that a rounded musical education is of paramount importance for the development and maintenance of a healthy, happy mind.

Nikolas has been playing the violin from the age of 8 and picked up the piano at the age of 12. After he finished his education in Hungary he moved to London in 2015 to further improve his skills and studied with professor Hu Kun for 5 years. During his time in London he has been an active participant in the East London art scene. He has been involved with multiple art collectives and participated in various fusion art projects such as interactive theatres, visual fine art performances, and various convention breaking acts. He has been looking to find new purposes for his instrument in a modern setting, while keeping the traditional values of it. In his quest to find evernew angles to perform, he had been participating in some unlikely scenarios, such as when he was playing with Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka in the Barbican, or when he was showing new discoveries of balance between the classical sound of violin and industrial noise in Cafe Oto.

He has been teaching both kids, and adults since 2016. Ever since then he has been looking for new and more efficient ways to teach, with the same dedication as he has to his own improvement. His teaching is performance focused and aiming to prepare his pupils both technically and psychologically for their concerts and exams. He is aiming to give the necessary skills to his students to become professional musicians themselves if they wish to do so, but also practical knowledge which is useful for someone’s everyday life as well. The kind of knowledge which is outside of the spectrum of traditional schools such as how to keep focus without getting lost in the details or how to deal with anxiety before an exam or performance or a job interview etc…

He is not only a performer and teacher, but he has been composing music as well. He has been working as a session musician/writer for established studios, and he has immersed himself with classical music from a compositional angle as well. Most lately he has been studying music production to further broaden his tools for his compositions.

Kauri is a Japanese/Kiwi violinist and teacher, recently moved to London. She has a passion for education, having started teaching the violin to other children in her neighbourhood from the age of 14. Kauri takes great joy in teaching others violin, believing that not only is she teaching the instrument itself, but she is fostering an encouraging environment for creativity, experimentation, learning, and perseverance. She is also happy to teach violin in Japanese as well as English.

Kauri graduated from the University of Waikato with First Class Honours in violin performance this year, and has a Postgraduate Diploma in violin performance with Distinction. She also completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering with First Class Honours at the University of Auckland in 2019. With her backgrounds in both the arts and sciences, she has a unique approach to teaching, incorporating both methodological problem-solving and creative thinking in her lessons.

With her multi-disciplinary background, Kauri has formed a compassionate, patient, and encouraging teaching method. This includes bits and bobs from her biomedical engineering degree, and how physics plays a role in music-making and sound waves; her 15 years of ballet and contemporary dance training, linking to the importance of mind-muscle connection and how to play violin without stress and strain; her Suzuki Method violin training, and how your ears are your biggest ally when it comes to practising.

Central to this multi-disciplinary approach to teaching is patience, kindness, encouragement, and curiosity. Kauri believes that these four pillars are what produces a learning environment with zero judgement that allows for creativity to flow – which is what brought her to love music, and hopes that it will be what brings others to love music too.