27 Years of International Teaching  (UK, USA, Greece)

Stamatia is in high demand both as a classical piano teacher and as an advanced theory and composition teacher in the UK. Students currently come for a lesson in her studio from all different places  (all areas of Kent, London, Colchester, Surrey, France etc). 
 

She has been internationally lecturing to a  large amount of University students but also teaching consistently for the last 27 years on a one to one basis students from all different levels, ages and cultural backgrounds both privately and at institutions such as Texas Christian University (USA), Texas Preparatory Division at Texas Christian University, Hellenic Mediterranean University (former The Technological Institute of Crete of Higher Education (Gr)), Tiegerman Conservatoire (GR), and currently in Junior King's and Senior King's in Canterbury (UK).

Global Online Teaching

Stamatia has been teaching students online from all over the world (Australia, China, France, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, West Africa, UK).

Students in the UK 

From the 27 years of teaching, the last 14 years have been in the UK. During these years, many of her students, in both composition and piano, won scholarships, bursaries and free tuition in prestigious schools and Universities and Conservatoires (the Royal Academy of Music, King's school in Canterbury, Guildhall school of Music and Drama etc.), other awards in musical composition, won first and second places on established Festivals (Sevenoaks Summer Festival, Ashford Arts Festival - Steinway Piano Competition, Kent International Piano Courses etc.), performed in prestigious halls (The Steinway Hall in London etc.), were admitted to UK Universities, Conservatoires and/or received postgradute studentships (Edinburg University, Falmouth University, Christ Church University, Guildhall School of Music and Drama etc.), had 100% success on diplomas (ABRSM and Trinity diplomas grades 1 to 8, ARSM, Dip/ABRSM and LRSM) and completed undergraduate modules and projects in composition and performance (University of Kent etc.) under her guidance successfully.

Approach in Piano

She has specialised on developing dexterity without causing hand tension while at the same time focusing on interpretation and  on the student's quality of sound.  A detailed musical analysis  on the  student's performing compositions (interpretation and technique change according to the composer's style and genre) is also vital during lessons.  Stamatia follows an  innovative philosophical, communicative and highly technical approach in her teaching. Also, her extensive research on piano memorisation - Master's Dissertation: Pedagogical Approaches to Piano memorisation:The Importance of Analysis for Retaining Piano Music - and her extensive analysis and practical expertise on sight-reading have helped her students to facilitate those areas immensely. 

Approach in Composition

Her primary target is to help students develop their own voice and achieve their goal in composition by enhancing their creativity, developing an affinity and a better conceptual understanding in music, improving their methodology, obtaining a more spherical knowledge, discovering solutions to unresolved compositional problems, analysing methods in order to expand  and develop their compositional ideas, using various both conventional and experimental stylistic materials  in their compositions and last but not least understanding of how orchestration and arrangement  works on various musical styles and genres.

Composition with young children and adolescents

It is amazing how creative young students can be! With a variety of innovative methods Stamatia's students learn to free their minds by experiment with various compositional concepts on various styles and genres, classical, non classical, pop and folk from around the world, while at the same time they learn to use all the technical skills they need in order to be able to compose short  instrumental and electronic compositions. Most students perform their compositions in various school recitals and national festivals. 

Masterclasses/Seminars    

She has contacted a series of piano seminars and participated in masterclasses of world-class concert pianists such as Vovka Ashkenazy, Oxana Yablonskaya and of the legendary pianist Eugeny Kissin.

Piano Teachers - in chronological order

Gerasimos Kakalis, Vicky Stylianou 
Her most influential piano teacher was Tamás Ungár one of United States' top University piano teachers.   

Composition Teachers - in chronological order

Her teachers have been Ioannis Kastrinos, Dimitris Kamarotos, Gerald Gabel, Roger Redgate, Katharine Norman, Sadie Harrison.  It is worth mentioning that she met George Crumb in Athens and she had an invaluable short session for her composition 'dusty memories'  in Megaron Hall in Athens in 1998.

Member of  Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM)
DBS Certificate
Educare Child Protection Training Course 

Teaching Subjects

Classical Piano Instruction  

ABRSM Grades 1-8
ARSM, DipABRSM, LRSM, FRSM  
Trinity Grades 1-8
 ATCL, LTCL, FTCL, performance and instrumental teaching  
Preparation for entrance in the University  
Guidance/Preparation for Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Piano Performance and Musical Composition 
Preparation for Amateur & Professional Piano and Composition Competitions and Festivals both nationally & internationally  

Modern Popular Progressive  Piano & Virtuosic Rock Piano   

The lessons include:
Improvisation and piano  
Applying chords and basic theory to piano 
Playing easy and advanced popular pieces (solo piano arrangements from mainstream pop and indie rock and pop bands, to film music, minimalism, post-minimalism, ambient relaxing neo-classical piano and orchestral music, musicals and world music)   
Playing technically demanding rock solo piano pieces 
Learn to create your own covers of pop/rock /film music

Composition Instruction 

Composition on different styles and genres  
Classical  
Contemporary classical  
Composition for films   
Songwriting  
AMusTCL, LTCL, FTCL Diplomas  
GCSEs and A-levels  
Supervision for entrance in the University  
Supervision for Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Musical Composition   

Theory Instruction 

ABRSM Grades 1-8  
GCSE & A-Levels  
AMusTCL, LMusTCL, FMusTCL  
Supervision for entrance in the University and for Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Music   
Counterpoint and Fugue  

Orchestration & Arrangement Instruction 
  
Electronic Orchestration  
Instrumental Orchestration  & Arrangement 
Preferable use of Sibelius Ultimate and Cubase software