Petra Casen Piano Tuition

Petra has been a truly wonderful teacher to my two children (age 7 and 9). Over the past 18 months she has gently helped to instil both a deep love and appreciation of music as well as excellent fundamentals of technique. Her home setting is also such a beautiful place of peace and tranquillity that really helps to calm down everybody's nervous systems. I feel truly blessed to have her presence in our lives

My daughter has been learning with Petra for over a year now. My daughter loves her lessons and is really enjoying learning the piano. As a director of music, I found it really difficult to find a teacher in the area that I thought would be a good fit, I’m so glad I found Petra!

Petra has been an excellent teacher for my teenage son, he has been learning piano for a while but since swapping to Petra his improvement has been rapid, she teaches great technique and the detail that makes him understand how to play a piece with musicality and understanding- he loves her lessons and practises so much more. I have no hesitation in recommending her.

Petra is a fantastic teacher; lessons are always so insightful, well guided and full of analogies and musical context to help understand techniques and concepts. I always enjoy every lesson and she is very encouraging and supportive.

After my 60 years of off-on piano lessons, Petra gets my "best-ever" vote! A hugely,hugely experienced problem-solver;great musician;empathetic listener and communicator, Petra has a real interest in her pupils and their progress.While she is keen on a disciplined but supportive approach , I am encouraged to choose pieces that I would love to play, and to express how I want them to sound (without deviating too wildly from composers' intentions--but we discuss these openly too!). Petra understands now my crazy life chairing Arts organisations which means some lessons go better than others--and helps me with my frustrations when they do not go as well as I would like on "bad-playing days".During lockdown ,zoom lessons have worked almost as well as in person on iPads.Overall ,over several years now I have found Petra highly motivating,helpful,caring and full of creative ideas to get over technical and musical obstacles .I am really enjoying making piano part of my day as often as I can .