Teachers’ Profile

Bee Ling started learning the piano at the age of 5 and completed her Grade 8 ABRSM. She then decided to pursue a teaching career where she taught in music schools and provided private lessons. She also did music and movement in kindergarten. Bee Ling went on to pursue her ALCM in London and thereafter to Toronto for further music course in piano pedagogy.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Jalan Tari Payong
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Benedict is a classically trained pianist, educator and accompanist. He was born in Singapore and started taking Piano and Violin lessons at the age of 6 and 7 respectively. Before entering LASALLE to pursue a Degree in Music, he obtained his Diploma in Aerospace Engineering at Temasek Polytechnic. Benedict also received his Diploma ATCL in Piano performance while pursuing his Diploma education.

Benedict has also been teaching piano and accompanying violinist since 2016 to students ranging from toddlers aged three years old, to senior adults. He hopes to reach out and enable his students to cultivate a passion love for music. His future prospects include pursuing his postgraduate studies overseas in Music Performance, after completing his degree at LASALLE.

Benedict is also motivated to become a professional performer who tells stories, and transmits emotions with his music. He strongly believes that through music, he is able to convey unspoken thoughts and emotions. With that, he hopes to capture audiences with his sound, and sincerity with the piano

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Charlotte has been teaching in a music school since 2013. She was previously one of the members preparing for the Asia Piano competition back in 2019 when it was held in Singapore. Aside from that, Charlotte has also been a piano accompanist since 2014 and an aural trainer for the violin ABRSM exam. She has also been organising plenty of recitals in the past couple of years and has also been preparing her students for piano competitions as well.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Cheng Wei is a classical music and piano lover who has taught students or all ages and abilities. She is highly successful with motivating students to overcome their weaknesses to continue their pursuit of piano through a tailored teaching approach, positive reinforcement and effective practice methods.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Punggol Field
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Cherng Hao first started playing the piano at a young age of 4. He was part of the NTU Piano Ensemble and had the privilege to perform for school concerts all year round. Also, he enjoys learning and performing classical as well as anime pieces. His strong desire to spread love for music to everyone, made him volunteer as a peer coach back in University, imparting basic piano-playing skills to his fellow school mates and sharing his love for music with them.

Cherng Hao’s patient and friendly disposition makes it a breeze for him to break the ice with students; both young and old. He hopes that by being a piano teacher, he will be able to spread his love and knowledge for music far and wide, influencing more people in the world to not only enjoy music, but also create, and be a part of the music that comes to life.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Serangoon Ave 2
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Christina has been a full-time classical piano and theory teacher since 2014 after she graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a degree in Computer Science. She is able to teach both classical and pop music as she was a church keyboardist previously. Aside from that, Christina had taken classes in Percussion Ensemble and Pop music during her years in university. She is passionate to inspire people through music teaching, with an optimistic goal of realizing the full potential in every student.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Buangkok Green
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Clarence is an ex-MoE teacher who still teaches music courses in primary and secondary schools. From a classically trained background, he has branched out and picked up other genres to stay relevant in the ever changing music industry. He writes music online for indie video games and films. Clarence is also experienced with both kids and adults and has real music industry experience as a practicing composer.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Bidadari Park Drive
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
✅ Jazz
✅ Pop

Diana enjoys teaching music to students of all ages and has experience in teaching young children.

She has completed her ABRSM grade 8 piano practical and theory and is currently studying music modules in NUS music conservatory under professors. She believes learning music should be fun and of course, rewarding!

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Anchorvale Link
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
✅ Jazz
✅ Pop

Eunice was introduced to music at the tender age of 2 and started learning the piano formally at the age of 3. Since then, she attended Yamaha group classes and graduated with Advanced Extension Course (Yamaha Grade 5). She was also awarded Distinction in her practical results in the ABRSM Grade 8 examinations. Throughout her examined grades, she has maintained the consistent result of achieving a distinction.

Prior to her current position, Eunice has taught as a creative writing teacher to primary school students, as well as guided her choir as the student conductor-vice president in PLMGS(S). Having performed countless times on many different stages and occasions as a pianist, accompanist, chorister and conductor, Eunice picked up a myriad of experience and perspectives and was trained to be adaptable and professional.

Eunice loves cultivating a sense of wonder about music in children and nurturing their talents with hopes that they will soar to their fullest potential and continue to blossom. Naturally patient with children, she understands each child has a different learning style and speed and adapts her approach to the child’s learning capabilities. She believes learning the piano or learning music shouldn’t just be 3 exam pieces and a book of scales, for the world of music is far more colourful and beautiful than that.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Faisal has been both teaching and performing since 2004. He teaches different styles of piano from classical to pop to jazz. He has taught both children and adults, ranging from beginners to the higher grades.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
✅ Jazz
✅ Pop

Gavin has been learning and playing on the piano self-taught for more than 40 years now. In recent years, he has released 5 CDs worth of original piano solo music on Spotify. Gavin has also published his own sheet music compositions and arrangements. He also has a Youtube channel where he shares his music performance videos.

Gavin finally decided to take the plunge and make piano teaching his official career. Passing the requisite ABRSM exams in 2020, he has been teaching a number of students until now. His students range from Kindergarten to adults in their 40’s, although he welcomes all ages and abilities.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Gladys started teaching the piano in 2008 when she was still in NAFA, where she majored in Piano Performance. She has since taught the Music subject in both Secondary and Primary schools in Singapore, where she developed lesson plans, instructional materials, and other strategies to ensure that every student has a thorough knowledge of the subject. Gladys has also been teaching piano privately at the same time, preparing students for piano/theory exams and termly performances.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Buangkok Crescent
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Hazel started learning the piano since she was 11 years old. In 2016, she received her Diploma in Piano Performance from LCM and subsequently went on to pursue the ARSM Diploma in Piano Performance in 2018. Currently, she is pursuing the ATCL Diploma in Piano Performance and hopes to complete it soon.

Hazel has been actively performing concerts organized by her piano teacher as well as public performances by Pianovers in 2019.
To engage students during lessons, she uses games and various story telling activities to enforce the important music concepts so that the students can grasp the basics of music easily.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Jalan Kayu
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Irvine has been learning the piano since she was 8 years old and started teaching since 2019. Recently, she has also discovered a passion for learning pop music.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Serangoon North Ave 4
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Jan has been giving private 1-1 piano lessons since 2018. She enjoys teaching because teaching is not just a profession, it is a mission. She believes that children are like clay and can be moulded and shaped by the hands of a teacher.

Jan decided to pursue teaching because she believes that being with children is like being endowed with perpetual youth. The love, laughter, mischief, creativity and imagination of children are like an eternal fountain of joy and vitality.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Jasmine has been teaching the piano to both kids and adults since 2012. From her previous experience as a part-time teacher assistant in a Kindergarten, it has given her an advantage when it comes to teaching children. She is able to understand them better and cater the lessons to their needs.

Jasmine is currently in a music production company doing music composition and songwriting. She is also in the midst of coming up with her own album.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

A graduate of LaSalle College of the Arts, Jasmine has been in the teaching profession since 2005. From classical to jazz, blues to love-ballads, she is well-versed in a variety of musical styles.

Thanks to years of experience under her belt, Jasmine utilizes an effective range of specialised teaching techniques to make lessons fun and enjoyable. This has allowed her to build rapport and connect with students of all ages and skill levels. She is also thorough when it comes to preparing her students for the graded exams.

A strong believer that music is for anyone with a willing heart to learn, Jasmine has organized recitals to showcase the musical abilities of her students.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Hougang Ave 10
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
✅ Jazz
✅ Pop

Jocelyn started learning the piano when she was 6 and obtained her Grade 8 Piano Certificate in 2016. Jocelyn have started teaching privately since 2017, and started teaching in a studio since 2018.

When Jocelyn first started learning the piano, she was demoralized and almost gave up. However, with the guidance from her passionate teachers, she was able to persevere and subsequently pass her exams. From this experience, she wants to continue spreading her passion for music and piano. Jocelyn is currently pursuing a degree, and furthering her studies for recital diplomas and music theory.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Hougang Ave 10
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Josline started learning the piano when she was 12 and obtained her Grade 5 Piano Certificate in 2009. Since then, she has performed in school concerts and taught students from 7 years old privately. Josline’s passion has kept her going to play the piano on her own and enjoy the moment!

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Anchorvale Crescent
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
✅ Pop

Karen has been a full-time private piano teacher since 2012, teaching ABRSM practical and theory. She has taught students ranging from a very young age all the way to adults. She also teaches students who are playing for leisure and prefer learning at a more relaxed pace without the pressure of taking exams. Most of her students have achieved high passing rates with a Distinction or Merit in their ABRSM piano exams.

In Karen’s lessons, she teaches students to develop patience, a sense of pitch and rhythm, musicality and expression. She guides them to acquire the right finger technique to produce the right tone and articulation that will help them to bring out the best quality in their music. For young beginners, Karen uses step-by-step teaching method books combined with flashcards, musical apps, visual rhythms and games to engage them in musical activities.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Hougang Ave 4
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
✅ Jazz
✅ Pop

Kelly has been a piano teacher for over 15 years. She has taught in music schools and students’ home before but is currently only teaching at her place. She has a Performer’s Certificate (Trinity College) and ABRSM grade 8 (Piano and Theory). Her students range from beginners to Grade 7.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Fernvale Road
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Li Xin is friendly and patient with students. She caters lessons according to her student’s strength and weaknesses. She is especially experienced in teaching children as most of her students range from 4 years old to 10 years old.

Li Xin enjoys teaching both children and adults and feel very proud whenever students make progress. She will be strict when needed but also believes that music should be played for fun and will try her best and find new ways to be engaging to ensure that students will enjoy piano as much as she does!

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Upper Serangoon Crescent
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Minghui is a full-time piano teacher and has been teaching piano since 2003. She is qualified with LTCL in Piano and a diploma in teaching. She can teach both for exam (following ABRSM or Trinity syllabus) or just for leisure, both practical as well as theory. She has experience in teaching children as young as 3.5 years old and up to 50 years old.

Minghui focuses on teaching the right techniques, rhythm and to inculcate musical awareness to her students so that they will not only know how to play, but also to be able to express the music well. Her students are also taught to appreciate a wide range of repertoire from classical to modern jazz and pop, and are encouraged to perform in the yearly student concert that she organises.

The past 15 years of teaching 30 odd students have given Minghui the skills to teach each individual student with methods that suits his/her particular temperament and learning style. Her students have obtained 100% passes in ABRSM exams, with most of them obtaining merits and distinctions and even high distinctions. She also has experience coaching students enrolled in ‘O’ and ‘A’ level MEP programmes.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Compassvale Crescent
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
✅ Jazz
✅ Pop

Melissa has been teaching for 12 years and has vast experience. She has taught in groups in pre-schools and primary schools as well as individual lessons in home and private piano studios.

Melissa believes all lessons should be tailor made for students. Her biggest goal is to build student’s love for music. She also believes learning music/piano is possible for everyone (children, adults and even students with special needs).

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Punggol Walk
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Meow Chin is a passionate and approachable full time piano teacher who gets along well with children. She believes in happy learning through encouragement and hopes to instill a love for music in her students’ journey.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Rivervale Drive
❌ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Playing the piano has been an integral part of Natalie’s life since young. Currently, she is also learning to play pop songs in her free time. To Natalie, playing the piano is a skill that everyone can learn if they put in the time and effort to practice. She is currently looking to teach the basics of piano and theory to beginners, and hope to inspire them to love music.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Having graduated from School of The Arts (SOTA) in 2013 as a Music Major (Piano), Norvin joined a music school after completing National Service in 2016 and has been teaching the ABRSM syllabus to his students, both practical and theory. He is also teaching private students and is able to give more time to teaching more students as well. Teaching music is definitely enjoyable for Norvin since his beginnings and he would like to take this further as a career.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Farrer Park Road
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Ru Yi is a certified MOE Music Instructor with extensive teaching and performance experience throughout Malaysia, Australia and Singapore. Her teaching philosophy is to induce Passion, Joy and Discipline. She caters her lessons to different needs and learning styles.

Ru Yi has a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy and Performance and Bachelor’s Degree with First Class Honours in Music Education. Aside from that, she also attained a Licentiate Trinity London College in Piano Recital with Distinction and Diploma in Piano Performance from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In addition, Ru Yi has a Grade 8 flute qualification as her minor. She has extensive piano accompanying experience in various settings, such as choir, ABRSM exams, and other performances.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Terence has been teaching and performing piano for a while (since 2013). He has not looked back from when he first began. He also performs and teaches a wide range of music from classical to jazz and even pop.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Hougang St 51
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
✅ Jazz
✅ Pop

Vivian has been teaching the piano since 2016 and has also prepared students for theory exams (Grades 3-5) with a 100% distinction rate. Over the years. through teaching a diverse pool of students of various grades and ages, she has learnt to cater her teaching syllabus to each student’s learning styles and interests. However, what remains unchanged is Vivian’s commitment to her students’ learning and development, and also developing them musically and technically in having strong theory and piano foundations. She also aims to expose her students to a wide repertoire of music catering to their interests as she thinks it’s beneficial to their musical development and in growing music appreciation.

Apart from being a piano teacher, Vivian is an active violist player since 13 years old and was from the Music Elective Program (MEP) In Secondary school. She has performed in string and full orchestra, chamber music and orchestra concerts as well as other local music festivals. She has worked with established composers with wider music perspectives and exposure.

Teaching Areas:
❌ Home Based
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Ying Yin is a versatile musician, proficient on both the piano and double bass. She obtained her LRSM in Piano Performance before attending the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she studied with concert pianist Mark Bebbington during the first three years of her Bachelor’s Degree. Thereafter she completed her graduate studies at the Yale School of Music, where she obtained her Master of Music in Double Bass performance.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Rivervale Walk
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Yvonne is a music teacher with both a Grade 8 practical as well as Grade 8 theory. She really enjoys sharing her passion for everything in the music world with others.

Yvonne is also a graphic designer who looks to seek design inspirations in nature as she believes that everything in existence is the result of hundreds of million of years of evolution and is the essence of design harmony and perfection.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Hougang St 61
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop

Zelda has experience working with students as young as 5 years old. She has a patient, friendly and bubbly personality.

She is always introducing new and interesting methods to keep the students engaged and to fuel their interest in piano playing and piano theory concepts. Her lesson structure and plan is catered to the individual student’s learning ability and to help him/her do well and have a good balance in both practical and theory of piano.

Teaching Areas:
✅ Home Based – Compassvale Crescent
✅ Travel

Genre Taught:
✅ Classical
✅ Graded
❌ Jazz
❌ Pop