Music, Piano & Keyboard Tuition

MUSIC, PIANO & KEYBOARD TUITION

Half Price Video-Call Tuition - is available for members and their children.

Private music tutors can be unaffordable for many, so Dorothy Shaw has partnered with The Roger Diamond Foundation to offer one-to-one video-call music tuition at Half-Price rates for RDF Members and/or their children.

Participating families can chose from Music Theory, Classical Music, Popular Music or Jazz - starting at beginners to advanced level for any age group. Most of our music tutors are professional classical or jazz musicians and all have many years' experience teaching the piano to children and adults. 

Dorothy Shaw is an accomplished pianist and music teacher. She provides face-to-face home-sessions and Video-Call tuition. Her specialist teaching includes: Music Composition, Latin rhythms and Jazz. She has been playing and teaching music professionally for over 33 years. 

Online Review: 

May 2020 in Yellow Pages - online - LOCKDOWN REVIEW: "Dorothy is a very friendly, patient, and talented musician and teacher. She has worked with our 10-year-old for over three years now. Some of the things that really stand out are that:

1. She is flexible about where lessons take place, and has even made a great success of video calling through the lockdown.

2. She is very much a part of the local music scene, and has arranged for some great opportunities for our son to perform or see live performances.

3. She has found the right balance to keep things moving forward at a pace that suits us and our son, including arranging and preparing for exams".

Dorothy is a composer / songwriter with recordings on SLAM Records. She has played in many jazz groups around Oxford area including leader of 2 jazz-funk groups. In 2020 she had recorded 2 CDs, one with her own compositions. She teaches jazz ensemble classes at Abingdon Music Centre as well as piano and keyboard privately. She organises Jazz Courses for semi-professional musicians.

Dorothy started out by studying classical piano to grade 8 and at school, music theory to grade 8. Then studied jazz piano on holiday courses. Meanwhile she studied at Berklee College of Music, Boston USA. MA 1993-4 (winner of 3 Performer / Songwriter competitions while there). Dorothy also has a Diploma in Music Education at Rockschool, London - 2010-11 (DipMusEd). 

She is a former Member of London School of Samba and Unidos de Back Bay (Samba School in Boston) and spent 3 months in Brazil 1989-90 learning language, music & culture.