The Considered Pianist: 6th & 7th July 2025This course can be booked as a one or two day programme (with a discount for booking both days) as each day will include different lectures, presentations and CPD sessions for Piano Teachers too. The course is suitable for Pianists of Grade 3 level and above wishing to participate. There will be dedicated CPD sessions for Piano Teachers as well an opportunity to observer the faculty teaching one to one lessons to participating students. All tickets include the opportunity to perform or to watch the evening recitial and to move freely between each faculty member's sessions, lessons and lectures. Tickets are available with or without food. Observer tickets are also available. If you would like to book accomodation please contact Benslow Music directly as this will need to be booked through them at an additional cost payable directly to Benslow. Each day will consist of: One-to one lessons with our distinguished teaching faculty.Lectures on all aspects of performance, performing psychology and piano techniqueParticipant and faculty performances.Recitial for particpantsPerformance by the facultyLunch and a post concert dinner will be provided and are inculded in the ticket price as well as teas, coffees and biscuits during the breaks, if you wish to have refreshments please choose the relevant ticket.Benslow Trust do not allow people to bring their own food onto the premises, therefore ticket prices include either lunch and teas/coffees at break times, plus dinner, or, lunch, teas/coffees and no dinner. Dinner is served after the evening concert so that students can relax and socialise with other students and with the faculty.Practice rooms will be available and can be booked for practice sessions during each day.Please note that you need to inform us if booking for under 18s so that we can ensure that we have enough responsible adults present to comply with our safeguarding policies. Faculty: Lorraine Augustine is the granddaughter of a Professional Pianist and grew up surrounded by music, beginning formal piano lessons at a young age and knowing from the very first lesson that playing the piano was the only thing she really wanted to do. Lorraine went on to achieve Diplomas in Performance and Teaching and to study with Pianists such as Graham Fitch, Noriko Ogawa, Artur Pizarro and Leslie Howard and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Performance Teaching from Guildhall School and a Coaching and Mentoring qualification from Guildhall School and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. Lorraine is a regular Adjudicator for Piano Festivals and competitions including the annual Junior Clementi Competition. As a solo performer Lorraine has performed extensively across the UK including a World Premier of S. G Pott’s Raymond Variations in London in 2015, and has appeared on television, radio and International Piano Magazine. Lorraine continues to perform regularly with upcoming recitals at venues and music societies across the UK. Lorraine has been teaching piano at GSMD since 2014, initially a regular dep, joining the permanent staff in 2017, she also runs a busy private teaching practice in her studio in Bedford where she lives. lorraine-augustinepiano.com Lewis Kesterton is a classical pianist, teacher, and writer. He commenced his formal studies in 2015 at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the guidance of Mark Bebbington and Katharine Lam. He has since studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire under the tutelage of Penelope Roskell, at the Royal College of Music with Mengyang Pan and City, University of London with Laura Roberts. In 2019, he was selected as the recipient of the John Ireland Trust Piano Prize, as well as receiving the second prize in the London College of Music’s Mona Blackman Competition. Lewis often performs around the capital as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist and is in high demand as a teacher. Joining the faculty of a private music school in 2016, he began to develop his own pedagogical techniques, transferable across instruments and ensembles, and has studied music education extensively. Since then, he has taught in private music schools across the country, worked in music services, and runs a thriving private teaching practice, focussing mainly on adult learners and advanced young pianists in his studio in West London. Lewis is currently a member of the piano teaching faculty at Morley College, Head of Piano at he City Literary Institute and the Junior Department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2023 he was appointed as a Trustee of the European Piano Teachers Association UK. He has a particular interest in working with students overcoming injuries and has a passion for helping nurture innovative, 21st Century musicians. lewiskesterton.com

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