01 / Young musician
Audrey
Zhang ZhaoRemote Xianggelila
Alongside regular performances at school, Audrey took her playing into a summer festival setting — a different room, a different piano and a new audience.
The Practice in Performance
We learn to perform by performing.
Performance is not an afterthought. It is part of learning: preparing something to be shared, walking to the piano, listening differently, and discovering what changes when there is an audience.
The London Piano Practice creates opportunities to perform, but our pupils also take their playing beyond the Practice — into schools, festivals, competitions, recital series and independent performances.
The aim is not to make every pupil the same kind of performer. It is to make performance feel increasingly familiar: a skill that grows through experience.
Student Concerts
A room in which to begin.
Our own concerts at Blüthner Piano Centre give pupils a welcoming place to try repertoire in front of an audience before taking that experience elsewhere.
11 October 2025Opening Evening — Student Concert
31 January 2026Student Concert
13 June 2026Student Concert
Beyond the Practice
Different pupils.
Different stages.
Four glimpses of what performance can become. Select a portrait to hear the performance.
02 / Young musician
Lucas
Robert SchumannVon fremden Ländern und Menschen, Kinderszenen Op. 15 No. 1
A competition performance asks for concentration in a very particular way: one take, one musical idea, and the confidence to let it stand.
03 / Adult pianist
Matias
J. S. BachEnglish Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 — I. Prélude
Matias has developed from individual repertoire into complete recital programmes, including performances in Faversham and at St Bride’s.
View St Bride’s programme +
The programme pairs Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major with Bach’s complete English Suite No. 2 in A minor. The recording above is a studio performance of the suite’s opening Prélude.
04 / Adult pianist
Stuart
From first lessonto first recital
Stuart began learning the piano in April 2024. What started with the uncertainty of an adult beginner grew into preparing and giving his own twenty-minute performance.
When I sit down to the piano and play, it still feels like someone else is playing.
Read Stuart’s story +
Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the piano (and anyone who can play it) but never had the opportunity to learn. This was for a variety of reasons — fear being one of them. That was until I was introduced to Giacomo in early 2024.
As an adult, I was nervous about playing an instrument and learning to read music. Could I do it? Would I find it impossible to learn something so alien? However, from the very first moment of sitting down at the piano with Giacomo, I felt completely at ease. Learning any new skill, as an adult, can be intimidating.
Now, a year later, I can play music by Bach, Beethoven, Lady Gaga, A-ha, to name but a few. When I sit down to the piano and play, it still feels like someone else is playing (and rather competently, all modesty aside), rather than myself.
I can think of no higher compliment to Giacomo’s professionalism, patience and encouragement than to say this — he has changed my life. I am now utterly addicted to my journey of learning to play the piano and I crave my weekly lessons with him. I feel privileged to be a student of such an incredibly talented (and kind) musician as this.
In addition to this, my day-job is a very stressful one, but since I met Giacomo, he has made my job just that bit less stressful, by having something else to focus my energies on. This has been (and continues to be) life changing for me.
— Stuart
Practice builds instinct.
Performance teaches us to trust it.