The Teaching Team at Blue Mic Music

 

Sasha Steventon is a professional Piano Tutor and Vocal Coach in Henley, Marlow and the surrounding areas. She began teaching Piano and singing aged 17 and went on to study music at Canterbury Christ Church University, specialising in performance and teaching. Sasha decided to set up blue Mic Music in 2016 following her strong belief that music should be available to anyone who wants it. Sasha has performed throughout the UK and has over 10 Years experience in teaching both individually and in large groups.

 

She currently works in 5 schools, providing piano tuition alongside the choirs, musical assembly's and music class lessons. 

 

 

Emma has studied and played the piano for 40 years. After taking a break to start a family, Emma began teaching with Blue Mic Music in 2017. Emma has a wealth of experience teaching both online and in person, with a huge variety of students of all ages. She is an inspiration to all of her students and focuses on confidence building and performance techniques. She regularly performs at Burford Garden Company, and has performed with numerous school choirs along with recording for BBC Radio Berkshire.

Emma Lives in the Cotswolds with her 2 sons and 2 dogs, Mabel and Harry. She is a keen road cyclist and loves a good puzzle!

 

 

Lucia Mossa is a professional and creative Piano and Singing teacher, working in with students of all ages and levels. After a Diploma in Jazz Singing, she started teaching singing and working as a singer/songwriter collaborating with musicians from all over the world, performing in different acts.

 

She loves  supporting her students while developing their creativity and music skills and her ethos is based on three core values she pursues in her everyday life and job: empathy, trust and joy.

 

 

Emma Crampton grew up playing the piano, Clarinet and singing. She has played the Piano since the age of 6, and started teaching at the age of 17. After a break while she established a gardening business and started a family, she has returned to teaching piano for Blue Mic Music.

 

Apart from teaching piano, Emma spends lots of time with her two beautiful daughters, loves to be in her garden and reading a good book!

 

 

Gina Morrell started learning the piano at a very young age and then the oboe when she was 9. Her musical talents took her to Chethams School of Music in Manchester before gaining a music degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She then joined the Royal Air Force as a ceremonial musician, a job that afforded her the privilege of working alongside many wonderful musicians nationally and globally.

 

Gina has taught piano and woodwind, both privately and in schools for the last 35 years and really enjoys getting to know pupils of all ages, celebrating their progress and love of music with them.

 

 

Alongside school, Mirjam Kaerma started Learning Piano at music school aged 7. After the 7 years covering performance, history and theory, she continued another five years of piano studies. Later on, Mirjam also began studies in violin and organ, and found a passion for improvisation. After finishing college in 2014, she decided to take a gap year and explore the world, and after event management work in Germany, she came to England to be an AuPair. She then gained her BSc in music technology at the University of South Wales, and began Piano teaching.

 

Mirjam finds freedom in having her fingers rolling around the piano keys, creating something beautifully unpredictable, being unpredictably beautiful.

 

 

Lily Starkey has just received a Diploma in Musical Theatre from the Italia Conti Academy. Alongside performing, she has been playing piano since she was 4 years old and completed my ARSM performance diploma on piano. As well as playing the piano, she also plays the violin and was a member of the Chiltern Music Academy Symphony orchestra for many years. This provided her with the wonderful opportunity to play at the BBC Youth Proms with them and tour around Vienna.

 

Lily wants to share her passion for music and performing with others and enable them to feel the joy and freedom of expression that playing an instrument brings.

 

 

Jess Jackson started learning piano aged 7 and continued to university, studying music and graduating with honours. Following this, Jess completed her Post Graduate Certificate in Education and has taught both music and maths in classroom settings. She is also a qualified SENCo and has vast experience working closely with children that have additional needs. After having her first baby Jess has chosen to reduce her school teaching hours and is now looking forward to getting back into teaching piano and instilling the same love of music that she has, in others.

 

 

Jennifer (Jen) Veres learnt to play the piano from a young age and developed a passion for music throughout her childhood.  Whilst studying Psychology at university Jen enjoyed singing in a choir in her spare time and she has many years of experience working with children and young people in schools to support their learning and enhance their emotional wellbeing.  Recently, Jen has decided it is time to bring this knowledge and skills to realise a childhood ambition of becoming a piano teacher too.  Jen firmly believes that all children have the potential to learn - you just need to find the right approach for them.  She values music and playing an instrument as a release for creativity and emotions that supports wellbeing.  

 

 

Dean Jones gained a BA Hons at Kingston for Music in 1998 and has been working in the Music education sector ever since. He works in a number of schools, delivering music workshops and delivering an instrumental tuition programme. He teaches Piano, Drums and Brass as well as Theory and Composition. In the past 2 years, he has been pioneering music-based initiatives for wellbeing and personal development focusing on his passion for 'Enhancing Communities through Music'.