Our Team
We are delighted to introduce you to our team at this point. Our team has been put together with great care and we only work with highly qualified teachers. For our study preparation programme we work in cooperation with lecturers from the UdK (Universtität der Künste Berlin – College of Music) and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin (Hanns Eisler School of Music).
Staff/ Teachers
Tsai-Yu Liu, Piano
Tsai-Yu Liu has been working as a piano teacher and professional pianist in Berlin for many years. She has extensive teaching experience working with children, teens and adults. She completed her music degree at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with a specialization in Piano. In addition she is a prizewinner of “Jugend Musiziert” and the “International Steinway Competition” and regularly gives piano recitals and chamber music concerts here in Germany as well as abroad.
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Yichen Xiao, Piano
Yichen Xiao teaches piano with a fine academic intuition for students of all ages. Her caring, imaginative and methodically designed lessons give students of any age group room for self expression and delight in playing music. She completed her masters studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Professor Leonore Aumeier with specialization in piano. She brings a lot of experience as a piano teacher and accompanist from her studies in Vienna and participation in numerous piano master classes as well as from being a participant at the Wiener Tagen der zeitgenössischen Klaviermusik (Viennesse sessions of contemporary piano music).
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Andrey Smirnov, Guitar
Andrey Smirnov graduated with distinction from the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Moscow and recently completed his MA in jazz arrangement and composition at the Jazz Institute Berlin.
Besides being constantly active as a performer and composer, participating in many different projects, he has also been working intensively as a music teacher since 2015.
He teaches electric and classical guitar, music theory, and improvisation, working with students of all ages and skill levels. His teaching is driven by a deep love for music and aims to inspire creativity in his students.
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Yen-Ni Wu, Piano
Yen-Ni Wu, born in Taipei, completed her bachelor’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Björn Lehmann. She is now pursuing her Master’s degree with Prof. Björn Lehmann at the UdK Berlin. Alongside her studies, she has taken part actively in numerous music festivals and master classes, and has gained lots of performance experiences in Europe, China and the USA.
Beside playing piano, she also enjoys playing the viola, in which she has been trained for over 8 years in the orchestra in her hometown. In addition to performance activities, Yen-Ni has been working as a piano teacher since she entered senior high school. She primarily assists students to find out the solution of piano technique problems or difficulties, while encouraging creativity and expression by exploring a wide variety of sounds and musical ideas.
Staff/ Teachers
Dr. phil. Anna Herbst, Piano
Anna Herbst is an experienced piano teacher who has shared her love of music with many students. Some of her students have taken part in the Jugend Musiziert competition; others have passed entrance examinations at universities and music colleges and gone on to pursue music professionally.
Her own musical education began at the age of five at a state music school in St. Petersburg. Her wish to communicate through music and introduce children to it shaped her further studies, first at the Music Pedagogical College in St. Petersburg and later at music colleges in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Her music studies were supported by a scholarship for talented artists. During this time, she participated in various masterclasses and a piano competition, and performed as a soloist alongside her teaching.
She later studied art history as a second subject during her Magister degree and earned a doctorate in music education at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since then, she has continued her artistic work through chamber music performances.
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Anastasiia Leshchenkova, Piano
Anastasiia Leshchenkova completed her musical training at a music college in Ukraine and earned a bachelor’s degree in arts at the renowned Yuriy Fedkovych National University in Chernivtsi. She gained valuable practical experience during her time at the Olga Kobylyanska Music School in Chernivtsi.
She is particularly committed to making music accessible to interested people of all ages and helping them find their own connection to it. For Anastasiia, music is more than a subject: it is an essential part of life that connects and enriches people. Her many years of work with children of different ages have given her extensive experience and reflect her commitment to making music accessible to everyone.
Staff/Teacher
Mila Dimitrova-Loginovskih
Mila Dimitrova-Loginovskih completed her master’s degree in music education and classical singing at the music school “Pancho Vladigerov” in Sofia, Bulgaria. As a soloist at the music theater in Sofia, she participated in operettas, musicals and operas. There she also worked as a teacher for early musical education and children’s choir director at the music school Music Play. In Berlin she was a music teacher at a primary school and at the children’s theater as a theater teacher.
She is currently an actress and singer at the musical theater “Kabarett Lori” and active musical pop and opera singer in and around Berlin.
In addition to concert activities, she is a voice teacher at our music school. She offers singing lessons for beginners and advanced of all ages in classical singing, as well as jazz and pop / rock singing.
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Hiroko Fukui, Study Preparation
“I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.”
Igor Stravinsky
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