If you really wish to play comfortably and expressively or learn how to play, it's time to start whatever age or level you are!

Everyone has the potential to make their own future vision true. We know that students improve in different ways according to their age, personalities and learning styles. All you need to make it happen are a willingness to learn, regular practice and continuity.

If you or your children are ready to try, the next step is getting a good teacher who instructs you well and motivates you. We are offering lessons with experienced teachers to help students enjoy learning, improve technique, musicality and achieve results. Our students have consistently passed exams high standard, some of them winning competitions and being awarded music scholarships. If a student wishes to learn the piano for fun or as a hobby, we help them through the journey to learn this lovely instrument to gain their aim and there is no reason why they should not reach a professional standard if they wish to do so.

Learning to make music is something very special and making music is a natural gift that we can all find in ourselves. If you haven't experienced this and would like to do so, we are here to help you find this natural ability in yourself.

"Someone rare - who has perfect musicality"

"Holistic teacher"

After over 15 years' teaching experience, Reina has started London Piano Studio to offer students the most effective tuition to meet individual needs. In addition she coaches conductors, singers, ensembles and dancers to develop their professional skills and musicality.

Reina was introduced to music at a very early age. She studied with Yukiko Deto in Osaka, and gained a BMus from Osaka University of Music. After completing her degree, she was selected to perform at the Young Artist Concert in Osaka.

During her time at Osaka University, Reina became interested in modern and contemporary music as much as classical repertoire. She passionated to explore and put a spot light on musics unknown. And during the time of exploring, she grew her interest of performing music in her unique way, new from what has been done.

These interests lead her to form a group of fellow musicians, dancers and artists to create a stage show that explored new styles of presenting classical music to audiences. In 2005, the group made a successful debut at Kyoto's Art Complex 1928, and were invited to perform in the opening series of the new arts venue, Creative Centre Osaka.

Soon after, Reina moved to London where she completed her Postgraduate study at The Royal Academy of Music studying with Pascal Nemirovski and William Fong. Since then, she has started to perform as a soloist and a chamber music player as well as an accompanist in UK and Japan.

Apart from performing as a pianist, her passion of creative work lead her to expand into other areas of music, creating and interest of music led her to expand other studies, studying jazz piano with Atsuko Hashimoto, Sara Dhillon and Barry Green, and studied composition with Grigorio Giamougiannis.

She formed an improvisation performance duo with a violinist friend, releasing albums which was recorded in UK and USA. One of their album received the Independent Music Award.

Soon after, Reina was invited to join the project 'Japan Meets West' and she continued to compose and arrange musical scores for this project. She performed as a member of the team and appeared with them in Trafalgar Square, London in 2012. Their review mentioned that "it is possibly a new genre of music. Their sound had a strong essence of their roots - classical music and at the same time it is acoustic. But it could be called progressive rock or maybe even something completely new. “I should say that this sense of something new is due to the major contribution of Reina Okada, the pianist, who was responsible for all the arrangements and composition for the team".

Reina's passion for collaboration with other artists has also led her to work with singers, dancers and performing companies such as English National Ballet. As a direct result of this, Reina has begun to explore tango dance and is currently developing her technique and response to the music. It became an another big passion of hers.

In 2012, she performed at The Guildhall for the national event ‘Gibraltar Day’, which was televised.

Reina has completed NSPCC Child Protection Training and Child Safeguarding Course and is Enhanced DBS checked.

Teaching

Teaching has given Reina a chance to analyze herself as a pianist and to understand in more detail how to play expressively and how to engage with the instrument to sing music through the instrument, which could be an alternative voice. It might be hard to see these details when you are watching a pianist perform, but when you are taught them you can apply them to your own playing and feel the difference. Everyone learns differently and this fascinates her. It has motivated her to adapt her teaching effectively for each individual student.

Reina has always been passionate about music, and enjoys sharing this passion with others, which makes her a dedicated teacher.

Her students have achieved good results in exams such ABRSM/Trinity and Guildhall Grade exams, GCSE exams in music. Some of them have been awarded scholarships, won awards in competitions ,been invited to junior departments of music concessionaires such as Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music and some have gained a place in major conservatoires.

Student Voice

"Reina is our wonderful teacher and actually our secret weapon! Real holistic teacher!"

"Reina taught our daughter what music is. She loves music and it became a part of her life."

"Reina cares my learning process, shows me difference in sound and ways to feel comfortable to play."

"My daughter says Reina changed her life. Since she started to teach my daughter, she improved her piano playing immaculately not only with piano but also with her other instruments. She won many music awards, was offered music scholarship from her school and also offered a place to study at the junior department of the conservatoire."

"My son gave piano up once. But picked it up again with Reina and now he says he loves music and playing piano."

Our vision is that all of our students will reach the highest possibility of their musical potential from their tuition. Each student will progress at their own ideal pace and achieve their very best as a real pianist who enjoys and appreciates music.

Through our experience of teaching as well as coaching, we have realised how important it is to help students to be able to express their unique musicality and to experience how they can be free and natural when playing the piano. They learn not only to read and make the sounds they see on the page, but also to understand and express the music that emerges through their own musicality and understanding. It's a wonderful moment to watch students experience this feeling.

In your piano lessons we encourage you to engage your creative and artistic faculties fully and you will be given advice on how to improve techniques to support this engagement. From long experience, we are confident that you will find satisfaction and enjoyment.

We are always motivated to find the most effective way to improve each individual student and have found our own method to give them a strong, firm foundation in musicality, technique and theory to lead them to the next stage of each level. Our aim is always to guide our students to become confident in their own musicality and be able to express this.

We don't compromise on the quality of piano lessons you will receive. Wherever you're at in your journey of piano learning now, it doesn't matter. All levels from absolute beginners to advanced, we can start from where you are. Even if you've never touched a piano before, there is absolutely no need to worry.

All students will grow musically, academically and personally through learning the piano. And you will experience and benefit from focus and confidence through learning with us.