Michael Peacock Piano

Email: michaelpeacockpiano@gmail.com

Phone: 07932068226

Up-to-date schedule: Here

Tuition

I teach piano from my dedicated personal studio in the Nithsdale area, 10 minutes walk from Cessnock subway station.

I am primarily a classical teacher, which means I teach on a basis of reading notated music, but I consider my style a hybrid as I use chord symbols and theory to make the process easier to digest. This leaves students able to play any genre they desire, read lead sheets, and understand pop chord symbols.

I put younger students through the ABRSM exam grading syllabus, and I teach adult learners with my own personalised syllabus designed to make learning engaging.

Weddings

I offer a bespoke service for wedding ceremonies, I will personally arrange suitable solo piano versions of any songs of your choice, to ensure your ceremony is precisely as you have imagined it.

I also offer an enormous repertoire of music to be played in the background before and after the ceremony, before your band or DJ starts the party later on in the evening.

I can bring my own piano and all equipment, or play a suitable instrument if the venue has one.

Funerals

I offer a selection of repertoire to provide a musical service for funerals, to provide an atmosphere of emotion and decorum.

I can bring my own piano with me, or play a piano if the venue has one. Please note I cannot play organs.

Educational Music

I write original music specifically for adult learners. As I started teaching, I found that most music designed for the first few years of learning is engineered for a child’s ear. This means the tonality is often lacking the complexity and emotion that adults enjoy in music, after a lifetime of defining personal taste. This is all graded using a variation on the ABRSM grading system.

Arrangements

I also arrange other music in many styles:

Solo piano versions of classical ensemble music
Advanced versions of modern bands and songs designed to display the power the piano has to imagine all the instruments of an ensemble simultaneously
Easy on the hand arrangements of jazz ballads, old pop music etc.
Easy versions of lesser known classical themes and melodies I have collated over the years

Original Compositions

And finally, I am also a composer. You can purchase the score for my works on the relevant page at the top.