About
Staircase Piano School is an agency of at-home piano lessons.
Send us an enquiry and we will find among our staff the perfect teacher for your needs.
Staircase Piano School tuition fees
We keep our prices in line with MU rates to ensure we don’t underpay our staff. Teachers spend money and time learning how to play and teach their instrument to the best of their capabilities and achieving impressive results in the most prestigious Colleges or Academies. We are convinced that their retribution should reflect their effort and preparation. If your Teacher is valued and appreciated, you get the best service possible!
About Me
Floriana, the founder of Staircase Piano School, is an Italian pianist and piano teacher.
She fell in love with Music quite early, thanks to her mother’s passion for Opera
(particularly “Le Nozze di Figaro”) and started learning piano when she was only four years old.
She was then admitted to her local Music Conservatoire.
After gaining a first-class honour degree in Piano at Vicenza Conservatoire in 2014, she spent a few years teaching her instrument. She gained experience with all kinds of students, children, teenagers, and adults, all with different levels of preparation, from beginners to advanced.
During those years, she was also performing in theatres and concert halls, both as a soloist and with other musicians, taking part in many national and international competitions and attending masterclasses of world-famous performers.
She then moved to London after being admitted to the prestigious Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the Master in Performance Diploma in 2022.
Floriana Iovino
Glenn’s story
“Not too long ago, I had the privilege to meet an intelligent and lively five years old boy named Glenn.
He started showing great enthusiasm at the idea of learning how to play piano and left me amazed with how quickly he could pick up concepts and patterns, with little to no explanation, and remember them the following week.
However, as time passed, his smiles became less and less frequent and were being replaced by a focused, concerned face as he started to become worried and frustrated, to the point that, on one occasion, he even refused to attend the lesson. His parents explained to me that he was nervous about making mistakes and not being able to understand what we were studying immediately.
During one of these lessons, when he was hiding behind the sofa and refusing to come near the piano, I had an idea: I told him that something had come to my mind, an idea that would have solved all his worries.
I then drew a set of steps on his book’s front page and explained to him how every mistake was only another step that eventually would’ve led him to the top. “Actually, I want you to make all the mistakes available!” I told him, as he burst into laughter with a relieved face.
A few days after that episode, I received a text from his mum saying that Glenn kept repeating how he was now “climbing up the stairs” whenever he wanted to learn something new.”
-Floriana-
Our Philosophy
Like Glenn, no matter the age, talent, or experience, we all can become frustrated and discouraged while learning something new. This could lead to abandoning our passion, only to regret it years later.
Our way of approaching Music can apply to every student at every level: the teachers can guide you along the way, but only you can choose where the steps will lead you and what you want to find once you reach the top.
Ultimately, the Staircase message is to be satisfied with your progress, enjoy the process of learning from your mistakes, and abandon all fears of not being adequate, setting your own pace on the path that will lead you to play the piano to the best of your potential.
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