Music Performance Tutors : 1-1 Music Performance Lessons

Let me put my mind to use and teach you new ways to remember things. While working with SEND children and being SEND myself, I’ve learnt many different ways to study and can help tailor the experience to you! While I can’t help you in the exam I can help prepping you for the big day. Learning is better when it fun, and you remember more! While achieving all my grades within compulsary school I have continued to get more qualifiactions in order to open more doors. I’m always learning new things and have a passion for learning that I’ve been told rubs off on other people. Over coming adversary with Dyslexia and Autism has made me learn so many different ways of remembering things, let me cut down the search for you and help a student acheive there best possibility. I look forward to teaching and helping in anyway that I can!

Hello! My name is William and I am passionate about helping students grow in confidence and achieve their academic goals. I studied Music at the University of Cambridge and am currently a Masters student in Musicology at the University of Oxford. With over five years of teaching and mentoring experience, I know how to adapt to each student’s unique strengths and learning styles, creating lessons that support their development and encourage them academically. Whether you’re preparing for exams, improving study skills, or seeking tutoring in GCSE/A-Level English, Music, History, or Humanities degrees, I’ll work with you to build knowledge, creative thinking, and strong results, while making learning enjoyable, rewarding, and empowering.
I am originally from Bristol, but have spent the past year and a bit studying in China. I have just returned to the UK to start my Masters degree at Oxford. I am the first in my family to go to Oxbridge and the first to do a postgraduate, so I know what it feels like to apply to these sorts of institutions. As a student at Cambridge, I was very involved in the student community and worked at outreach events, dispelling myths about what it is like to go to university, what an Oxbridge interview feels like, and the content of a degree at Cambridge. I am passionate about widening access to university and academic thinking and my teaching style reflects this, focused entirely on the best way a student learns and using their natural curiosity to drive great results in exams, as well as a raised confidence in their own academic ability.

With over eight years of experience as a fully qualified teacher—including roles as Music Subject Lead and Maths—I am passionate about making learning engaging, accessible, and fun. My mission is to build confidence and instil a love for learning, especially in those who find maths or music difficult. Recognised with a Highly Commended Award for Pearson’s National Teacher of the Year in a secondary school (2022), I take pride in delivering tailored, supportive lessons that truly make a difference.

Prior to my teaching career, I travelled to the UK from Australia with a full University Scholarship to study music. I was fortunate to perform with some of the best Brass Bands in the world, traveling on tour with them all over the world. Having achieved the prestigious Harry Mortimer Performance Prize, and winner the British Cornet Solo Championships, I continued my journey by serving in the British Army as a professional trumpeter in the Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Band. It was here where I found the love of teaching. Following my Military career, I became a fully trained Music teacher and experienced 8+ years teaching in a variety of education settings such as Primary, Secondary and SEN/D schools. Throughout this time, I developed a passion for teaching Maths and working with learners who are SEN, Neurodiverse, anxious and lacking in confidence. Having struggled with Maths as a school student, I was driven to making Maths more fun, exciting, enjoyable and accessible – being the teacher I always needed! I am now delving into the world of tutoring where I can reach more learners that need me.

“My daughter absolutely adores the way Steph delivers the learning as it’s fun, and she finally understands Maths in a way that makes sense to her. I have never seen her so engaged & focused! What a positive experience.” – Parent Testimonial, January 2025.