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Welcome to Atefeh's Creative Teaching Studio
Whalley Range/Chorlton 

🎹 Piano Lessons for Children and Adults
Lessons
Learn piano in a relaxed, friendly environment where music is shaped around you. I teach both children and adults of all levels, from complete beginners discovering their first notes to experienced players refining their technique or exploring new styles. Every lesson is tailored to your goals, learning pace, and musical interests.

For Children
Lessons for children are fun, imaginative, and filled with encouragement. I use creative activities, games, and songs to help young learners develop focus, rhythm, and a natural sense of musicality. Children gain confidence through small, achievable goals, while also learning to listen, express themselves, and enjoy the process of making music. Parents receive regular updates and guidance on how to support practice at home.

For Adults
Many adults come to lessons feeling nervous or unsure, especially if they are returning to the piano after a long break or trying it for the first time. My approach is calm, supportive, and completely pressure-free. Together we explore the music you love, whether it’s classical repertoire, pop songs, jazz, or improvisation. Lessons can focus on reading music, improving technique, understanding harmony, or simply playing for relaxation and enjoyment.

My Teaching Style
Students often describe my lessons as positive, engaging, and well-structured. I believe in combining clear technical foundations with creative exploration, helping every student to feel both capable and inspired. I encourage questions, curiosity, and laughter in lessons, music should feel expressive and personal, not intimidating. Mistakes are simply part of the learning process, and progress comes naturally when you enjoy what you play.

Improvisation and Creativity
I often include short improvisation or composition moments in lessons to help students connect emotionally with the music. These activities build listening skills, confidence, and a deeper understanding of how music works. You don’t need any experience to try this, it’s about discovery and expression, not perfection.

Lesson Options
Lessons are available both in-person and online via Zoom or Teams. Online students receive digital sheet music, lesson notes, and practice recordings. In-person lessons take place in a welcoming, comfortable space with a real piano and resources for all levels.

About Me
Alongside teaching, I’m an active composer with experience working across classical and cross-cultural music traditions. My background in cross-cultural composition and improvisation shapes how I teach. I value individuality and encourage students to develop their own musical voice.

What to Expect
From your very first lesson, you’ll feel supported, guided, and encouraged. We’ll set achievable goals together and celebrate progress every step of the way. Whether you dream of performing, composing, taking exams, or simply playing for joy, I’ll help you get there with confidence and creativity. Music is a journey, not a race—and my role is to make that journey enjoyable, inspiring, and uniquely yours.

Atefeh is facilitating a workshop called "Music and colours".

October, 2020

A group zoom session where you can listen to music and express your feelings in colours!

You will listen to an improvisation on Santoor and get in touch with your feelings. You just need to find what feeling you identify in yourself while you are listening to music. Then, you need to ask yourself if this feeling had a color, shape and form, what would it be like? So, you imagine all your feelings and put them on your paper. I would recommend to but some paints for this session but you could participate in this workshop even with one paper and a pencil.  You know there is no right and wrong. You can create an image as you go without having your picture in your head beforehand.  

We all have some kinds of experience with art but we really rare to use art as a way to express our feelings. So, it can be difficult to do this at first but when we listen to music, we could get an access to those feelings and express them on to paper easily. We want to draw or paint our feelings because we need to express our feelings and words do have a limit. We express our feelings because we need to be heard, to be listened to. That is really hard to get that sometimes. That is why we have art. We can hear ourselves; we can see our feelings in front of us.

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