So many people have painful memories – even trauma – surrounding early musical experiences.
Traditional methods and attitudes have created whole generations of adults who believe they "aren't talented enough" to learn music. Sometimes, all it takes is one off-handed comment.
Nobody wants to feel like they will never be good enough. Nobody wants to feel like they are constantly being compared to and outperformed by others. But unfortunately, for a lot of people, that is their experience of music training.
I endured the soul-crushing, boring parts of classical music training because I was stubborn. But I paid a price for pushing myself: burnout, performance anxiety, imposter syndrome, shame, and avoidance of the very thing I once loved: playing music.
There is so much more to music-making than just mechanical skill. I knew there had to be another way. I knew that
many people miss out on music education because the traditional methods are not supportive, engaging or inclusive enough. After completing my music studies at university, I took singing lessons, directed choirs, attended immersive workshops in Alexander technique, dance, free improvisation and yoga. I became an
arts writer, learned jazz piano, and composed an album. I studied psychology and trained to become a Gestalt psychotherapist at
GTIWA. And as this whirlwind of self-development subsided I took a step back and tried to synthesise everything I'd learned in order to serve others. And that's when I launched
Inner Voice Piano.
My purpose is to help people deepen their relationship with the piano and with themselves.
To hear me play, check out my reel below. This is a collection of ambient and minimal piano sketches I created over the past two years. Each sketch was totally improvised - a spontaneous, true expression of what I was feeling at the time.
