As an older student with some musical experience, I find Kristina’s lessons both enjoyable and challenging. I’m making real progress with my saxophone playing and would recommend her to anyone wanting to take up an instrument in later life.

Kristina is both a fantastic teacher and an incredible musician.

As a teacher: She has a very open, adaptable teaching style and a relaxed, positive personality that enables her to teach directly to the needs of her students. For example, when I’ve had crises of confidence she has patiently supported and encouraged me and adapted our training schedule to reduce the pressure I’ve felt, and when I’ve been perhaps more overconfident she’s been able to channel and direct my enthusiasm very productively. Kristina is incredibly perceptive in identifying the underlying causes behind surface issues, very capable at explaining the reasoning behind her advice rather than just issuing instructions, and at demonstrating how all the techniques and methodologies she teaches synergise with and compliment each other as she helps her students layer fresh skills atop the foundation of earlier skills she’s helped the student establish – and she can help a student maintain momentum and enthusiasm throughout this process, from starting-out all the way to high-level musical instruction.

As a musician: Kristina’s passion for and sheer enjoyment of music in all its forms really shines through in the way she teaches, being able to take her students on a journey through anything from nursery tunes to current chart pop/rock songs to the trickiest of Chopin’s Études with equal enthusiasm and verve, and to demonstrate the conventions of the genre and features or techniques unique to the piece in every case. She has an excellent ear and is able almost effortlessly to identify minor imperfections in tone, tune, or technique and correct them before bad patterns are learned, as well as guiding a student’s expression and dynamics even from their early lessons. She clearly understands music theory and composition to an incredibly technical degree; this technical underpinning perhaps isn’t necessary in all lessons for all students – but, if required to, she is able to show how a technique works “under the bonnet”, explain a musical phenomenon in terms of physics, airflows and frequencies, or thoroughly deconstruct a composition and enumerate the composer’s choices therein – all in a very engaging way that can help to give a particularly curious student an understanding of the nature and beauty of music in the abstract as well as simply teaching them to play their instrument.

She’s the best teacher I’ve had, and I can’t recommend her enough!

As an Adult learner, I was initially daunted by the prospect of starting a new instrument. Kristina’s approach helped me gain confidence quickly and evoked real enjoyment in learning.

I would highly recommend Kristina as a tutor. 10/10!

Kristina is an excellent teacher who makes every lesson fun. She is very patient and encouraging and loves to share her passion for music with others.

Kristina is an excellent teacher! She is very approachable and very understanding. She clearly loves music and enjoys teaching it to her students. Her classes are fun and she explains everything very thoroughly. Kristina is a great musician and has a lot to offer. Would 100% recommend!

Kristina is a wonderful teacher. She helped me improve after a lot of self-study during COVID, and brought some much needed discipline to my practice, as well as helping me to gain the confidence to improvise. Working with Kristina is fun and engaging and the hour lesson always flew by. She has a lot of musical knowledge to share, and would love to work with her again.