FEE: 30 mins for £20 and 60 mins for £30 (payable in advance please)
Contact Please text or phone Adriene on 07760 238462 / 00 44 7760 238462 for any more information or to discuss your individual music lesson requirements.
Adriene enjoys teaching Singing, Flute and Piano for all ages from beginners to diploma level, for auditions, career, confidence, exams, performance, self-development, and for fun.
Adriene also enjoys teaching elementary Violin, Viola, Celtic Harp, Ukulele, Guitar, Recorder and Piano Accordion. When requested and needed, Adriene incorporates Theory, Basic Song Writing , Aural and Singing Skills for optional ABRSM – Associated Board of the Royal School of Music Examinations http://www.abrsm.org She can also help prepare students for other Music Examination such as Musical Theatre Exams.
Adriene holds a DBS Enhanced Disclosure Certificate, has taught in State, County, Private, Prep and Public Schools. Apart from travelling to/for exceptional home visits, Adriene presently gives music lessons in Shimpling Village, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
TESTIMONIALS:
Please see one below, and others can be seen Via MENU TAB under Teaching General, Teaching of Singing, Flute, Piano, Violin / Strings and Character (especially for parents of the youngest children). All originals can be seen on request.
SAMPLE TEACHING TESTIMONIAL
“Adriene has taught my two daughters (aged 12 and 13) for 5 and 7 years respectively. Both children have had outstanding success in their ABRSM piano exams, achieving distinctions in all their grades (to now grades 6 and 8 (30 Ucca points) some grades achieved in 2 terms only) so far. This is particularly impressive as they do not come from a musical background! Adriene’s teaching is exemplary. She provides challenge, but also makes the learning such fun. My girls have very different personalities and Adriene is incredibly sensitive to this, skilfully adapting her approach to ensure maximum success for each child. The rigour, breadth and depth of Adriene’s teaching has made an enormous impact not only on their musical ability but also on their capacity to learn more generally. Adriene listens carefully to any concerns or difficulties and works with such compassion and empathy. She sets challenging but achievable targets and gives excellent feedback. We all thoroughly enjoy Adriene’s lessons and could not be happier with our experience.“
Mrs V W BA Hons,
With C19 restrictions, keen to learn and dedicated to practice, but unable to visit violin shops to purchase an instrument, the girls improvised with homemade cardboard violins and knitting needles to learn basic bowing techniques and the full range of chromatic violin notes. They then began studying ABRSM grade one violin scales and pieces, enabling the elder to join her first orchestra within the first year. Vaccai’s Italian singing method was studied to help their confidence in aural exam tests. This was all via Zoom (see Verses Tab, via Art Cards for a poem inspired by this). Apart from Distinction prizes, the girls won many intermittent prizes for achieving set short term goals. With the triangle of supportive, and where possible proactive parent/s, willing dedicated student, and qualified patient teacher, success is the most secure, although it has been known that very self motivated young students can indeed succeed without constant parent attention.
Further information and calendar for Adriene’s current performing can be found on:-
http://www.angelsdelightmusic.co.uk Flute and Harp Duo for all occasions
http://www.adreamsgreetingscards.co.uk Local scenes and art greetings cards mostly coloured pencil sketches and some photos by Adriene can be seen on this web which will be updated hopefully by 2026.
Adriene is delighted as a novice, to be invited by Shimpling artist Steven Kent to share, with himself and Sudbury artist Kevin William Franks an
ART EXHIBITION July 14th 2024 at “The Apex” Bury St Edmunds, Concert Hall 1st Floor Gallery. Steven Kent presented mostly acrylic local and portrait works, Kevin William Franks water colours including of historical buildings and water scenes, and Adriene included local photographs, coloured pencil sketches with co-ordinating verse by her brother John and herself. We hope you had time to visit and enjoy.
BRAIN WORKOUT
Anita Collins “How playing a musical Instrument benefits your brain” YouTube Ted-ed Talks 4.45mins
Invited by brother John to a professor’s lecture on The Strand, London, Adriene heard, that from Brain Injury, the hardest thing for the brain to do is finger movement. It may be, therefore, that in reverse, any dexterous finger work could indeed help our brains. Progressing even over years towards virtuoso playing, for example, on piano and violin with Liszt’s and Paganini’s music, must have surely have great benefits.
New to web making, and her websites in great need of proof reading & updating. Adriene will gradually add more pages and pictures, to hopefully update by 2026. Written for her own “memory lane” and for any potential music students, she very much hopes that some of her notes, played and sung in concerts and written here, may also help and inspire others.
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Adriene Ellis ARCM Singing Flute Piano Violin Lessons Suffolk Teacher 