Masterclasses
Learn not only from a professor, but also a performer.
Not where a piece is born but where it becomes truly yours.
- Intermediate and above
- Strictly one-on-one
- 60 minutes
- In person or online
What this is
For music already in your hands.
For music that already exists in your hands, but not yet fully in your body, your sound, your presence, or your story. Not slowly learning notes from scratch - taking something prepared and making it more alive, more convincing, more fully owned.
Why trust this with your playing
You already play well. That is the starting point.
Which is exactly why the question is fair: what does this hour give you that another hour of practice would not?
A performer, not only a professor
Solo and Band pianist for cruises, concert programmes, hotel rooms, and public squares across more than 50 countries. Stage presence is taught by someone who still has to walk out and do it. We speak about the audience psychology too.
A composer, to discover the intention
Bulgarian National Culture Fund, Benslow Music Competition. Knowing how the notes were chosen changes what you are allowed to do with them, while getting familiar with the role of an interpreter. Are you taking what you want to hear as audience or what the composer wanted?
Research behind the teaching
Ongoing PhD in Music Perspective: Anthropological and Societal Outcomes. A small intro about how your own music perspective works against or alongside you.
Alexander Technique, certified under Nelly Ben Or
Royal Academy of Music, London and Northwood. Physical release is not an add-on here. It is a trained discipline, applied to where your effort is actually going, including the tension you stopped noticing years ago.
Play “Isaac Albéniz - Asturias” on YouTube
Play “Rozen Maiden - cover” on YouTubeBulgarian National Radio - BNR Horizons - feature interviewIn Bulgarian. Browser translation reads it fine.
Approach
Crisis management on stage
What you do when memory slips, when the instruments or other musicians fight your patience and rhythm, when the lights go off, when the page turns badly, when the baby starts crying. Rehearsed responses, so that the recovery is not luck but a decision.Alexander Technique
Sometimes it’s not the skills, it’s the body itself. Mini yoga and basic anatomy inputs. They help immersively.Stage presence
The walk, the sit, the silence you take. What it means to authentically engage the audience and how to notice if you don’t.Music philosophy and interpretation
What’s the story, what’s the intention. Why.Self-teaching habits
How you practise when nobody is watching. Everything between two sessions depends on it, so it is treated as a subject, not as homework.Reading the audience
The room responds constantly. From the type of clap to the type silence. Most players are too busy inside the piece to hear any of it.
Play “Never Meant to Belong” on YouTubeNever Meant to BelongBlues cover
How a session runs
Session Setting
- Level
- Intermediate and above.
- Format
- Strictly one-on-one. Never a group.
- Length
- 60 minutes per session.
- Place
- In person, or online.
- Online lessons
- The camera has to show hands and posture clearly - ideally from above and diagonally. Sound matters as much as what can be seen.
- Who it suits
- Players who arrive prepared and want to work in depth for an hour.
Session focus
Choose what the hour is for.
- One piece, reshaped in depth. The most common choice, and usually the most useful.
- Preparation for a specific event. A competition, an audition, a concert with a date on it.
- Multi-session work across several pieces. A programme instead of a piece.
- Ongoing refinement. Stage presence, sound and response, over time.
Pricing
€49.99 per session
One session, 60 minutes, one-on-one. Multi-session work is agreed case by case.
Tell me the piece, roughly where it stands, and what you want it to do that it does not do yet. If a masterclass is the wrong tool for that, you will hear so before you pay for one.
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