Piano: advanced workshop

Yekaterina Lebedeva is a concert pianist and professor of piano at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. She graduated from the Kiev Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with Distinction in 1993. Soon after, she moved to London to establish a European base from which to develop her solo career further. In March 1998 she made a debut in the Purcell Room, invited to play as part of the Southbank Centre Young Musicians' Platform FRESH. Since then she has appeared regularly at the Southbank Centre and abroad, performing in important concert halls of Germany, France, India, Russia and the Middle East. Her students have won many international prizes as well as regularly perform at Wigmore Hall and broadcast on BBC radio 3, and two of her students were Lang Lang award winners and have played in the Royal Festival Hall at the “Lang Lang Inspires” concert and follow-up concerts. Yekaterina is the founder of Musical Odyssey Masterclasses held each summer in Greece.

Shelagh Sutherland is established as one of Britain's leading and most versatile pianists. She enjoys a varied scheduled freelancing with the major London orchestras, particularly the Philharmonia and the London Sinfonietta, while also having a busy teaching schedule at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and teaching Alexander Technique at the University of Surrey and now at Guildhall. Shelagh enjoys teaching students of all ages and especially at City Lit, where there is a wonderfully supportive environment for both staff and students, encouraging genuine learning and passionate interest in a wide variety of subjects. She has taught year-long courses and summer-school short courses at City Lit since 2008 and also co-ordinated the keyboard department at Junior Guildhall since 1990. Shelagh has performed in all major British festivals including the Proms, and has toured Europe, the USA, Canada and South America. She has recorded many solos works for BBC Radio 3. As a scholar at the Royal Academy of Music, she qualified in piano, singing and violin and was awarded a British Council Research Scholarship to specialist in Czech music in Prague.