I have been playing the piano since I was 3. I started picking out nursery rhymes on my Grandma's piano and my Mum sent me to a piano teacher to see if she thought I should have lessons. The teacher thought I showed some talent and I was hooked!
As I went through school I sat my ABRSM grades, gradually improving, and when I left school, I spent 2 years on a Music Diploma course at Napier (now University) in Edinburgh, which is my home town.
After gaining my ALCM and LLCM teaching diploma there, I went on to study Music at degree level at CCAT which is now known as Ruskin University in Cambridge.
Graduating at the start of the Recession in the 90s, I worked in the theatre for a short spell before sadly being made redundant. Times were hard, jobs were thin on the ground for new graduates, and I quickly realised I needed a way of earning money to survive so I went back to college for 6 months to learn secretarial skills.
This career change took me on a different path and I spent a few years playing very little piano, working in London in the City and in television as a PA. It was when I moved to Chesham and had children, I found I had some time and space to play again.
Soon I started to teach the children of friends and found myself becoming a piano teacher! That was more than 15 years ago and I still enjoy passing on my love and enthusiasm for music and finding new ways to teach.