Teaching

**Times currently available: Monday 4pm. Tuesday 4pm, 4.30pm.

BMus(TCM) IIi From Trinity College of Music, London

PGCE (QTS) from UCL Institute of Education

LTCL in Music Performance

DipABRSM in Music Performance

FRSA Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Level 5 BSMA Suzuki Violin Graduate Teacher
Level 2 BSMA Suzuki Viola Teacher

NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties

TENANCY TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism 2023

NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Safeguarding and Prevention

IAO Level 3 Certificate in Diet and Nutrition

Tes Child Protection in Education (Music) Certificate

Public Liability Insurance held with the Musicians' Union

Helen started teaching career as a part-time classroom music teacher in the London Boroughs of Southwark and Hackney, where she became an acting head of department for music. She divided her time between classroom teaching, violin teaching and performing.

During her time as a violin teacher, she was introduced to some pupils who had learned violin using the Suzuki Method. Helen made a decision to leave classroom teaching and pursue studies at the British Suzuki Institute in London. She achieved ESA Level 5 Graduate Suzuki Teacher status in 2017 and Level 2 viola in 2023.

Helen runs a successful Suzuki teaching studio and runs the Kentish Suzuki Group, collaborating with local teachers performing in concerts and events. The group have performed at the Royal Festival Hall,The Royal Albert Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Trafalgar Square with the British Suzuki Institute. Students have gained places in the National Children’s Orchestra (NCO) as well as local Bromley Youth Music Orchestras (BYMT).

Numerous students have gained music scholarships to local independent schools and received junior conservatoire places at Junior Trinity Laban and Junior Royal College of Music in London. Students have also won numerous prizes and awards at the Bromley Festival, Sevenoaks Festival and Tunbridge Wells Festival.