418 Hale Road, Hale Barns WA15 8TF

alison anne gee

418 Hale Road, Hale Barns WA15 8TF

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PROFILE

A talented and award winning professional who has excelled throughout career to date, this has involved gaining a wealth of experience in the provision of educational support and piano teaching, receiving numerous testimonials and maintaining a continual waiting list.A university level educated individual with countless experience in building and developing highly effective student relationships, significantly enhancing their morale, knowledge and abilities. A tenacious and highly creative Teacher with an outstanding reputation and numerous achievements now looking to demonstrate piano teaching expertise within a forward thinking organisation.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

●Extensive piano teaching experience
●Extensive recitalist and soloist exposure
●Student progression and support
●Significantly enhancing student progression
●Exceptional sight reading ability / ●Experienced organist
●Excellent private sector exposure
●Calm and positive approach
●Choir direction expertise
●Teaching music theory

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

●Continually enabled pupil success, this has included a student winning a music competition at Sale Grammar School in 2015 and a student winning 2nd place out of 36 pupils at a music festival at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls

●Played a pivotal teaching role in ensuring pupils have acquired distinctions in their grade 5 theory examinations

●Worked closely with one pupil, delivering outstanding teaching, resulting in acceptance at the RNCM as a singer

●Assisted and support a pupil in achieving a position in the finals of a piano competition at Sale Grammar School, resulting in selection as the winner from RNCM adjudicators

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching Experience:

2002-Date Piano Teacher – Forest Park School

Key Achievements:

●Successfully teaches piano and keyboard as well as accompanying the choir at Manchester Cathedral in Christmas performances and at Sale Town Hall during this time

●Continually motivates and encourages pupils to participate in musical events, this has resulted in distinctions

●Oversees and hosts concerts on an annual basis at Bowdon Rooms as well as organising different pupil events and activities

1989-Date Piano Teacher – Bollin School

Key Achievements:

●Delivered extensive teaching and coaching support within the school as well as teaching pupils on a private basis

●Achieved numerous successes with pupils in relation to concerts, this involved the venue Dunham Massey Hall and entering pupils into music festivals including Macclesfield and Alderley Edge

●Played a pivotal role in ensuring a number of pupils achieved distinctions in exams and festivals as well as enabling one grade 8 pupil to receive a merit in the exam within a limited learning period and later go on to study at university

1994-Date Piano Teacher – St. Vincents RC Junior School

Key Achievements:

●Successfully taught the piano to a number of pupils including teaching on a private basis as well, this resulted in two pupils gaining places at Cambridge and achieving grade 8 in piano as well as the achievement of distinctions in exams and festivals

2010-2014 Piano Teacher – Wilmslow Prep School

2006 Committee Member–Manchester Committee for EPTA

Key Achievements:

●Attended and contributed to numerous meetings regarding future events at Chethams

●Worked closely with pupils, ensuring they had the opportunity to perform in concerts at Chetham’s School of Music

●Achieved numerous successes within the EPTA competitions including pupils reaching the finals of the EPTA piano competition and one pupil winning the composer’s national competition

1991-1993 Piano Teacher – St Bedes College, Manchester

Key Achievements:

●Took on a number of pupils within this college following a friend relocating abroad

1987-1988 Work Experience – TafelMusik, Birkenhead

Key Achievements:

●Successfully enhanced student’s knowledge and abilities through the teaching of the piano and accordion

●Developed excellent experience in teaching and gained selection to perform Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia in Warrington following recommendation from RNCM under the conductor Mike Trowski, this resulted in meeting a grade 8 viola player’s mother and enabled being chosen to manage all teaching at the Bollin School and on a private basis

Performances/ Concerts:

2015 Didsbury United Reformed Church, Didsbury

Violin and piano recital with Maria Becker (violin)/ Works by Mozart, Brahms and Nigel Hess

2006 The Bowden Rooms, Bowdon

Violin and piano recital with Louise Jones (violin)/ Works by Beethoven and Debussy (including Feux d’artifice)

1999 Chester Cathedral, Chester

Organ recital/ Works by Brahms, Percy Fletcher and Widor

1988 Warrington

Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia (solo piano part), under Mike Trowski

1984 RNCM, Manchester

RNCM student recitals

Liszt’s La Leggierezza and Bartók’s Mikrokosmos (1982)

Copland’s Piano Sonata (1983)

Brahms’ Rhapsody, op. 79 no. 2 in G minor, and Fauré’s Nocturne, op. 33 no. 2 in B major (1984)

Beethoven’s Sonata, op. 10 no. 3 in D major (1984)

1983 RNCM Student Recital (with singers) -Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry

Works by Mozart, Liszt and Kenneth Leighton (solo piano)

1981 Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry

Works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Bartók

1980 Chopin House, Edinburgh

Works by Chopin

1980 St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

Bartók’s Suite, op. 14

1979 Edinburgh Youth Orchestra (under John McCleod) - Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Mendelssohn’s Capriccio Brilliant, op. 22 (solo piano part)

Masterclasses:

1985 RNCM, Manchester

Beethoven’s Sonata Pathétique (fortepiano)

1979 St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh/ Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto (2nd & 3rd movements)

Accompaniments:

2015 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

Played with an oboist during an audition for the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra

1988 Macclesfield Festival, Macclesfield

Performed in woodwind class

1982-1986 RNCM, Manchester

A number of rehearsals, performances and masterclasses with instrumentalists

Music Societies:

1996 Dunkeld and Birnam Music Club, Dunkeld

Flute and Piano Recital with Julian Bryan (flute)

French and American music including works by Blavet, Gaubert and Copland

1992 All Saints Church, Hale Barns

Violin and Piano Recital with Louise Jones (violin)

Works by Beethoven, César Franck, and Wienawski

1992 The Bowdon Rooms, Bowdon

Altrincham, Hale and Bowdon Music Society

Works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Wienawski

1989 Sale Music Club, Sale

Brahms’ Rhapsody in G minor, op. 79 no. 2

1989 The Bowdon Rooms, Bowdon

Altrincham, Hale & Bowdon Music Society

Haydn’s Sonata in D major, hob. XVI:37 no. 50, Schubert’s Impromptu in G flat major, op. 90 no. 3,

Brahms’ Rhapsody in G minor, op. 79 no. 2, Fauré’s Nocturne in B major, op. 33 no. 2, Falla’s Fantasia

Bética, Kenneth Leighton’s Study, op. 22 no. 5, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition

1987 St Ann’s Music Society, Manchester

Beethoven’s Sonata Pathétique, Brahms’ Four Pieces for Piano, op. 119, and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata in

B flat major, op. 83 no. 7

1986 Dunkeld and Birnam Music Club, Dunkeld

Beethoven’s Andante Favori, Fauré’s Nocturne in D flat major, Chopin’s Scherzo in C sharp minor, op. 39

no. 3, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition

Organist Experience:

2001 – 2010 Organist–Didsbury United Reformed Church, Didsbury

1993 – 2001 Director of Music and Organist – All Saints Church, Hale Barns

Competitions:

1980 Surrey Young Pianist of the Year

Finalist and Sole Scottish Representative

QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1982 – 1986 GRNCM (Teaching and Performance) – Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

●Studied piano with Derek Wyndham

●History, musicianship and art teaching

1976 – 1982 St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh

●Studied piano with Audrey Innes

●2nd instrument – cello

●Piano grade 8-140 marks (highest mark in the UK for that year)

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST