Ellada Angelina

Angelina - Ellada Pavlou is a pianist and teacher based in London. She is currently completing her studies in Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, under the guidance of Gabriele Baldocci and Katya Lebedeva.
She will continue her studies in a master course at RNCM with Murray McLachlan.
Born in Xanthi, Greece she started piano lessons at the age of five. While in Greece, she studied with Giannoula Papazoglou and Professor George-Julius Papadopoulos. She has participated in master classes with pianists such as Giorgia Alessandra Brustia, Nikolai Demidenko, Margaret Fingerhut, Leon McCawley, Murray McLachlan, Hamish Milne, Pascal Roge, Jerome Rose, Martino Tirimo and Vassilis Varvaressos.

During the last years Ellada has performed, inter alia, in the ‘Musical Odyssey,’ Nafplio-Greece and in Manos Hadjidakis’ house, in his hometown. In the U.K. she performed in various venues including the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich in London, the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building in Oxford, and Royal Academy of Arts in the frame of the Oceania exhibition, at the Hellenic Centre, at Tate Exchange collaboration project. Her latest performances include the Sala A.Michelangeli at the Conservatorio of Bolzano, Italy. One of her future engagements will be in the Concerti di Tempietto Festival in Rome. She also has participated in the Debussy Festival, Brahms Festival and the New Lights Piano Festival organised by Trinity Laban. Angelina has played as an orchestral pianist with Trinity Laban Winds Orchestra, including a performance at Blackheath Halls.
Angelina regularly performs in concerts, playing solo piano repertoire and chamber music. She formed ‘Duo Dithyrambico” with Christos Fountos, performing repertoire for piano 4-hands and two pianos.

Tutoring Experience

Angelina has worked as a volunteer assistant at the Animate Summer Performance Project organised by Trinity Laban for young musicians, including a performance at Southbank. She also worked as a teaching assistant in the Young Musician’s Summer School 2019 by Trinity Laban, at taught music theory group classes.

Tutoring Approach

I always encourage my students to practice no matter if they are learning for hobby or for possible future studies.
I always adjust my lessons to the needs of the student. I teach grades when students when to give their exams. I also encourage the Suzuki method as I believe it has a wide range of knowledge and repertoire and builds a strong musicianship. If the level of some students is higher and they are interested in studying music, I will try teach more like a conservatoire method, using piano repertoire only, studies if need to, to help the student build up her/his pianistic and musical skills at the best.
I always try to give feedback to my students about their work within a specific period and also I often ask them their opinion on a new suggestion of a piece or idea I might have. Mainly I do that to understand what each student needs and wants to learn and accordingly make my plan of the lessons. When I see a student is more independent, musically, I give them choices between pieces and give them tasks to decide on thei own.