Main presentation
Sally Cathcart
Making sense of notation: Practical Teaching Approaches for Today’s Piano Students
Dr Sally Cathcart is an advocate for excellent piano teaching. A piano teacher living in Yorkshire, she is an internationally recognised pedagogue, and an all round lover of anything piano related. She will be joining us for a second visit to talk about her passion for notation and how reading music comes from internalised musicianship rather than being simply a matter of decoding.
Event details
Time / Date
6th February 2027 10:00am – 5.00pm
Location:
Christchurch The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9LW
Price: £
Morning presentations
Clare Richards
Running a professional piano teaching business
Clare, a piano and violin teacher in Burley-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, will share a little about how she runs her teaching studio from home and in local schools, highlighting the benefits of an efficient, well run business, and suggesting resources that might enhance our own experiences.
Joanna Garcia
Building a brand: how to share what you do online…and grow!
Joanna lives in Burnley, Lancashire and is a popular figure on social media, sharing her high-level piano and teaching expertise with passion. She will talk about how to make use of all the world wide web has to offer for our piano teaching businesses, from electronic invoicing to posting on YouTube.
Peter Marshall
Making Tax Digital and what it means for self-employed piano teachers
Peter is co-director and senior accountant at Marshall Krysko Accountants in Silsden, Yorkshire. He will be joining us to share his knowledge and engage in discussions about Making Tax Digital, which is a change in the way the government expects self-employed people to file their tax returns.