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 Barbara McRae (02) 6258 2110 Ariana Odermatt Marie Searles (0468) 497 980

	NSW	Anthony Abouhamad MUFFAT COLLECTIVE / SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM, UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY (0401) 543 337 Lyn Brown (02) 9519 5303 Joanna Butler SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM, UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY (0409) 240 786 Paul Dyer BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA of AUSTRALIA (02) 9363 2899 Rosalind Halton (02) 4921 8950 Ray Harvey CONCERTATO (0431) 719 024 Erin Helyard PINCHGUT OPERA / SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM, UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY (0478) 010 836 Heath Henn SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OPEN ACADEMY (0466) 914 777‬‬ Philip Swanton SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM, UNIVERSITY of SYDNEY (02) 9351 1376 or (0411) 441 167 Paul Thom

	QLD	Huguette Brassine (07) 5448 1449 Catherine Stirling (0407) 420 877

	SA	Katrina Brown UNIVERSITY of ADELAIDE Lesley Lewis MUSIC FOUNDRY Jill Lowe (0457) 246 009 Glenys March UNIVERSITY of ADELAIDE (08) 8431 5575 Anne Whelan ADELAIDE BAROQUE (0410) 425 572

	VIC	Priscilla Alderton (03) 9458 5110 Elizabeth Anderson AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY of MELBOURNE / VICTORIAN COLLEGE of the ARTS (03) 9387 3004 Victoria Bilogan SCOTCH COLLEGE (0413) 180 895 Peter Hagen SALON CONCERTS at BROADFORD David Macfarlane PAST ECHOES / NEWMAN COLLEGE (0412) 915 380 Ann Murphy Morgan UNIVERSITY of MELBOURNE (03) 5348 7604 Donald Nicolson LATITUDE 37 / UNIVERSITY of MELBOURNE / VICTORIAN COLLEGE of the ARTS (0450) 242 679 Helen O’Brien GEELONG COLLEGE / GEELONG GRAMMAR (03) 5223 1245 or (03) 5223 1147 John O’Donnell MONASH UNIVERSITY Jacqueline Ogeil Priscilla Taylor (03) 9387 5517

	WA	Stewart Smith EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY (08) 9370 6110

CHINA
		Jiang Yushan 江禹衫 CHINA CONSERVATORY of MUSIC, BEIJING +86 176 1031 0371 Liu Weijing 刘姽婧 XI’AN CONSERVATORY of MUSIC +86 134 8822 9100 Ng Yi Ching 吴怡青 WUHAN CONSERVATORY of MUSIC Shen Fanxiu 沈凡秀 CENTRAL CONSERVATORY of MUSIC, BEIJING Zhou Ting 周挺 MIDDLE SCHOOL AFFILIATED WITH SHANGHAI CONSERVATORY of MUSIC+86 136 6185 9848 Zhu Di 朱迪 CHINA CONSERVATORY of MUSIC, BEIJING

HONG KONG
		Bu Xinge 卜心歌 +852 6621 8207 David Chung ACADEMY of MUSIC, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY +852 3411 7871 Timothy Kwok CHINESE UNIVERSITY of HONG KONG Shane Levesque HONG KONG ACADEMY for PERFORMING ARTS +852 6691 5271 Betty Li HONG KONG ACADEMY for PERFORMING ARTS

MACAU
		Timothy Kwok MACAU POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE +853 8599 3216

NEW ZEALAND
		Douglas Mews VICTORIA UNIVERSITY +64 4 384 8854

SINGAPORE
		Lena Ching NANYANG ACADEMY of FINE ARTS / UNIVERSITY of the ARTS SINGAPORE Gerald Lim RED DOT BAROQUE / YONG SIEW TOH CONSERVATORY of MUSIC +65 9650 5898 Tien Yang SCHOOL of the ARTS / NANYANG ACADEMY of FINE 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 Tomi Koo 구민수 +82 10 3647 2076

TAIWAN
		Alexander Sung 宋老師 +886 910 871 027 Machiko Suto 須藤真地子 ENSEMBLE IJ SPACE / NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY of EDUCATION Kamil Tokarski TOKARSKI PIANO STUDIO +886 917 566 428 Tsai Chia-Hsuan 蔡佳璇 TAIPEI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of the ARTS / NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY+886 988 292 234

THAILAND
		Alberto Firrincieli ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY / YAMAHA MUSIC SCHOOL RATCHADAPISEK / INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ACADEMY Chanyapong Thongsawang PRINCESS GALYANI VADHANA INSTITUTE of MUSIC +66 2 447 8597

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