The tutor DD will be having has the following qualifications/experience. As a non music person I just took a recommendation.
Mr G.P.
BA(Oxon), ARCO
Piano, Theory and Accompaniment
G's musical career began as a chorister at King's College, Cambridge. Whilst there, he studied the piano and violin and, later, started learning the organ with David Goode. After further organ study with his father, J.P., at xxx School, G gained a DFEE Specialist Place at Wells Cathedral School. During his Sixth Form at Wells, he studied the organ with Rupert Gough and harpsichord with David Ponsford. He also held the post of Junior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral.
After leaving Wells, G spent a year furthering his organ studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam under Jacques van Oortmerssen and had the opportunity to play some of the most beautiful organs in Holland. Then, in 2000, he left Amsterdam to take up the post of Organ Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he also read for a degree in music. Whilst at Queen's, G became an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, winning all three of the top prizes in the exam.
On leaving Oxford in 2003, G spent four years working in church music ministry, first in London as Music Assistant at All Souls, Langham Place, and then in Sheffield where he has held the post of Music Coordinator at xxx Church. In October 2007 he started research on an MPhil at Sheffield University, looking into the links between the faith and music of J.S. Bach.
In his spare time G enjoys running, reading and cooking for his friends!