Profile Category: Course Director

During the courses, Helen is here to help you settle in and to ensure a smooth and organised running to the course.

Penelope Roskell is Professor of Piano at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as well as being as well as a concert pianist of international standing.

Here at Finchcocks, Jennifer deals with our course enquiries and guest bookings. She loves finding out about people's musical history and helping them find a course that is just right for them.

Vedrana Subotic, a Steinway Artist since 2003 and award-winning Associate Professor-Lecturer of Music at the University of Utah, will be conducting an advanced five day course at Finchcocks in August 2019.

Lucinda Mackworth-Young is an inspirational international lecturer, workshop leader, author, pianist and teacher and Director of the leading Piano Teachers’ Course UK.

Andrew was a finalist in the BBC Young musician of the year and is now Company Pianist for Northern Ballet and an examiner for ABRSM.

In 2016 Warren Mailley-Smith became the first British pianist to perform Chopin’s complete works for solo piano from memory in a series of 11 recitals at St John’s Smith Square. Hailed by the critics as an “epic achievement”, Mailley-Smith will repeat the series at several venues in 2018-19. He has given acclaimed solo recitals at...

Melanie Spanswick studied at the Royal College of Music and is a British pianist, author, writer, teacher, adjudicator, arranger, examiner and composer.

As well as writing for the Pianist Magazine, Graham has his own blog and YouTube channel and has recently launched an online academy for pianists and piano teachers.