Harpsichord Teachers

THE ROYAL COLLECTION

Detail from “The Music Lesson”
by Johannes Vermeer
c1662–64

It’s time to learn the harpsichord—a most wonderful instrument with hundreds of years of repertoire worthy of enjoyable and serious study. This page may help you by showing Australian and Asian early keyboard specialists who enjoy sharing their musical experience and enthusiasm for the harpsichord and other early keyboard instruments by teaching.

People learn harpsichord and other early keyboard instruments for different reasons:

Young musicians aspiring for a career as a professional performer.
Curious music lovers who just want a few lessons to grasp the basics of the harpsichord.
Professional piano accompanists, particularly if they are called upon to make sense of a badly-arranged figured bass for a Corelli or Handel Sonata, or even the complete Messiah.
Serious musicians who have an interest in a particular composer or repertoire.
Others looking to renew their acquaintance with music they picked up earlier in life.
Adults who may be complete musical beginners, attracted to the harpsichord by its engrossing tone and touch.

Of course, it is especially wonderful to be able to impart knowledge to a gifted and enthusiastic youngster with regular weekly lessons, but many adult students may prefer the odd lesson at infrequent intervals, particularly if they must travel long distances to their nearest teacher.

Each teacher has their own style, preference, and speciality, so a few may not entertain adult beginners at all, insisting on a certain level or musical understanding before they are willing to introduce the harpsichord. Some teachers may have expertise in certain repertoire, figured bass accompaniment—a most important use of the harpsichord—or other early keyboard instruments like clavichord or fortepiano. Some teachers are associated with tertiary educational institutions which may or may not restrict their freedom to give private lessons.

You will need access to a suitable instrument to be able to practise what you learn. Some teachers might insist this is a harpsichord of your own—and this is probably essential for advanced study—but for other teachers, the style you pick up may be able to be grasped on other keyboards.

This listing of musical practitioners is as complete as possible. Listing is open to all teachers without fee, and inclusion or omission does not imply recommendation or otherwise. Feel free to approach a teacher in your area and see if your relationship can develop: Contact details have been provided and confirmed by the teachers themselves.

Harpsichord teachers in the Asia/Pacific region wishing to be listed here should please complete the Teacher detail form, and ensure that their contact details are kept up to date!

AUSTRALIA
	ACT	Christine Faron (02) 6251 1737 Geoffrey Lancaster AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Barbara McRae (02) 6258 2110

	NSW	Diana Blom UNIVERSITY of WESTERN SYDNEY (02) 4736 0164 Lyn Brown (02) 9519 5303 Neal Peres da Costa SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM, UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY (02) 9351 1273 or (0405) 356 364 Paul Dyer BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA of AUSTRALIA (02) 9363 2899 Winsome Evans RENAISSANCE PLAYERS / MUSIC DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY (02) 9351 3616 or (02) 9351 2923 Rosalind Halton UNIVERSITY of NEWCASTLE (02) 4921 8950 Ray Harvey CONCERTATO (0431) 719 024 David Kinsela (02) 9361 5966 Monika Kornel SYDNEY CONSORT (0416) 345 489 Mark Stuart (02) 9457 9826 Philip Swanton SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM, UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY (02) 9351 1376 or (0411) 441 167 Paul Thom Joanna Tondys (0409) 240 786 Anne Whelan (0410) 425 572

	QLD	Huguette Brassine (07) 5448 1449 Rebecca Smith (0417) 703 691 Catherine Stirling (0407) 420 877

	SA	Katrina Brown UNIVERSITY of ADELAIDE Lesley Lewis ADELAIDE BAROQUE / MUSIC FOUNDRY Jill Lowe (08) 8379 0126 or (0427) 977 539 Glenys March UNIVERSITY of ADELAIDE (08) 8431 5575

	VIC	Priscilla Alderton (03) 9458 5110 Elizabeth Anderson AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY of MELBOURNE / VICTORIAN COLLEGE of the ARTS (03) 9387 3004 Peter Hagen Roger Heagney (03) 9817 5053 David Macfarlane PAST ECHOES / NEWMAN COLLEGE (0412) 915 380 Ann Murphy Morgan UNIVERSITY of MELBOURNE (03) 5348 7604 Donald Nicolson LATITUDE 37 (0450) 242 679 Helen O’Brien GEELONG COLLEGE / GEELONG GRAMMAR (03) 5223 1245 or (03) 5223 1147 John O’Donnell UNIVERSITY of MELBOURNE / MONASH UNIVERSITY Jacqueline Ogeil Priscilla Taylor (03) 9387 5517

	WA	Jillian Belbin UNIVERSITY of WESTERN AUSTRALIA (08) 9384 2541 Stewart Smith EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY (08) 9370 6110

CHINA
		Ng Yi Ching 吴怡青 WUHAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Shen Fanxiu 沈凡秀 CENTRAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, BEIJING Zhu Di 朱迪 CHINA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, BEIJING

HONG KONG
		David Chung HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY +852 3411 7871 Shane Levesque HONG KONG ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS +852 6691 5271 Betty Li HONG KONG ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS

JAPAN		Harpsichord teachers in Japan should please complete the Teacher detail form to arrange their free listing.
	Nagoya	Michio O’Hara 小原道雄

	Osaka	Miho Ioka 井岡みほ OSAKA MUSIC COLLEGE/ KOBE COLLEGE / DOSHISHA WOMEN’S COLLEGE +81 72 633 7276 Seiko Nakata 中田聖子 Mito Shimonishi 下西美都

	Tokyo	Yuko Inoue 井上裕子 Sawako Nakatani 中谷佐和子 Kaori Taira 平かおり Atsuko Watanabe 渡邊温子

NEW ZEALAND
		Erin Helyard NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL of MUSIC +64 4 463 5859 Douglas Mews VICTORIA UNIVERSITY +64 4 384 8854 James Tibbles UNIVERSITY of AUCKLAND +64 9 373 7599 x82330

SINGAPORE
		Douglas Amrine +65 8222 7109 Tien Yang SCHOOL of the ARTS +65 9018 7727

SOUTH KOREA
		Joo Hyun-Jung 주현정 +82 11 9903 5080 Jung Kyung-Mi 정경미 YONSEI UNIVERSITY +82 10 5294 5786 Ko Hyunjoo 고현주 KOREAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of ARTS / SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY +82 11 9065 8170 Oh Joohee 오주회 HANYANG UNIVERSITY / SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY +82 11 9024 5815 or +82 2 334 5815 Park Jee-Young 박 지영 KYUNG WON UNIVERSITY +82 17 284 7543

TAIWAN
		Christiana Lin 林秋孜 SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY +886 2 2731 3044 Victoria Su 蘇晶晶 CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY Alexander Sung 宋老師 +886 910 871 027 Tsai Chia-Hsuan 蔡佳璇 FU JEN UNIVERSITY +886 988 292 234

THAILAND
		Alberto Firrincieli ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY / YAMAHA SIAM KOLKARN MUSIC SCHOOL Eun-Young Suh MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE of MUSIC +66 86 771 3591

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