The Team

Our tutors are exceptional musicians who have all the requisite skills to guide pianists of every age and musical level, from accomplished players with a passion for a professional future in music, to students working through exam syllabuses or performances, and those purely interested in the piano as a hobby in various musical genres.

Meet The Tutors

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  • Born in India and raised in Bahrain, Sid Ramchander is a UK-based pianist whose versatile career spans solo recitals, concertos with orchestra, chamber music, art-song accompaniment, orchestral piano, and contemporary ensembles (featuring world premieres) across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. A skilled collaborative artist and Samling Artist since 2021, he maintains partnerships with acclaimed singers and string players, and as director of the Virtuoso Project is committed to fostering creativity across genres to contextualise classical music education.

    He made his professional concerto debut at 13 with the Belarusian Youth Orchestra at Bahrain’s National Cultural Festival, soon after winning the Young Musician of the Gulf competition. He studied with Evgeny Mogilevsky and Aleksandar Madžar at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels, earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with honours, and received regular coaching from renowned pedagogues including Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Eugen Indjic, and Andrzej Jasiński. Continuing at the Royal Northern College of Music, he achieved distinctions in Advanced Postgraduate Diplomas for Solo Performance and Accompaniment under Richard Ormrod and David Jones, won multiple prizes and artist programme nominations, and later served as Junior Fellow at RNCM for two years.

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  • Born in Amman, the Jordanian-Palestinian pianist Iyad Sughayer has been described as 'One to Watch' by International Piano Magazine. He has performed at leading venues all across Europe, North and South America, and the Middle-East. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with leading orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, Manchester Camerata, European Union Chamber Orchestra, and the Cairo and Amman Symphony Orchestras. He has released two albums with BIS records, featuring the complete solo and concertante works of Aram Katchaturian, which received critical acclaim. He is the founder of the Mashrek Academy of Music in Jordan, discovering and nurturing a new generation of creators and musicians across Jordan.

    Iyad studied at Chetham’s School of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he won the College’s prestigious Gold Medal. He returned to the Royal Northern College of Music to complete his International Artist Diploma, and in 2021 was made an Associate (ARNCM). The following year he was nominated as a Rising Star by Classic FM. 

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  • Luke Jones, a Kawai Artist originally from Wrexham, North Wales, has performed in major venues across Britain, Europe, and Asia and appeared as a concerto soloist with renowned orchestras including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Orchestra of the Swan, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, with many performances broadcast on television and radio.

    Beginning piano at age five and making his debut recital at ten, he studied at Chetham's School of Music, the Conservatorio di Musica 'Lorenzo Perosi' Campobasso, and the Royal Northern College of Music, where he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with first-class honours and distinction and received the College’s Gold Medal. A prizewinner in multiple international competitions such as Maria Canals, Chopin-Roma, and Bromsgrove, Luke is also passionate about music education through his successful teaching practice and maintains wide-ranging interests in world history, psychology, philosophy, religion, sport, and personal development.

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  • Adam Davies is a British pianist, tutor, and conductor active as a recital and concerto soloist across the UK and the Channels, with a repertoire spanning the Renaissance to contemporary works, championing both lesser-known composers and the classical canon. He is a piano tutor at Chetham's School of Music and Rossall School, an ABRSM examiner, and director of the St. John's Festival Orchestra, regularly conducting major symphonic works.

    Having first learned piano from his mother and later studying with Irina Glushenkova, Adam earned a bachelor’s with honours and two postgraduate degrees with distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music under John Gough and Dr. Murray McLachlan, receiving Drapers’ and Oglesby Scholarships, the Norman George Scholarship, Fergal O’Mahony Undergraduate prizes, and becoming a Gold Medal finalist. He has won the East Coast Young Musician and EPTA UK Piano Competitions, and been a semi-finalist and finalist in the Royal Over-Seas League, Wales, and Krystian Tkaczewski International Piano Competitions.

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  • Victor Lim is a highly sought-after teacher, serving as Director of the International Piano Academy and Head of Keyboard Studies at Rossall School as well as as a tutor at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. Victor is a regular author at the International Young Musicians Academy and Pro Corda, and has given masterclasses internationally. Since his first public appearance on BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2012, Victor has performed across the UK, Europe, and Asia, collaborated with Manchester Collective and Manchester Camerata, Royal Northern Sinfonia and BBC Philharmonic, and has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.

    He trained at Wells Cathedral School with John Byrne and Richard Ormrod, the Royal Northern College of Music with Graham Scott, Jeremy Young, and Murray McLachlan, and the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Dussek, completing further studies with Kathryn Stott and earning Artist Diplomas from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the RNCM where he won the Gold Medal. Victor is a City Music Foundation Artist.