Runaway Hands

Professional piano studio, by a classically trained pianist and musician
🎖️2026 RIAM Spotlight Awards Teacher
Academic approach
Individual piano lessons
RIAM exam preparation
ABRSM exam preparation
Rockschool of Music exam preparation
Music Theory exams We do Ear Training, Sight Reading and Music Theory. I prepare my students for both RIAM and ABRSM graded exams. I pride myself for orgaising a recital for my students twice a year - once at Christmas and once before the summer vacation. It gives everyone a great opportunity to stand before an audience and perform their music, which is an invaluable lesson! All ages and levels are very much welcome! I little bit about myself:
I started with private lessons at the age of 7, until my teacher saw that I could continue learning piano at the national musical secondary school in Burgas, my home town. In Bulgaria, where I am from, there are secondary schools dedicated to different professions and specialties, like English language, or Mechanics, or Music, etc...
I graduated with high marks and a certificate of professional qualification - "Artist - instrumentalist - specialty - Piano"
After that I continued my music&piano education in the National Academy of Music, Sofia, with prof. Atanas Kourtev - one of my biggest mentors, where I got a Bachelor in Classical Piano. Later on I got a Masters in Computers in Music Education from the Sofia University. I have taken part in a few piano competitions, such as The 3rd National Piano Competition “Franz Shubert”, Rousse, 2001 – 2nd Prize Piano;
16th National Competition for Best Performance of a Bulgarian Composition, “Varban Varbanov”, 2002, Burgas – 2nd Prize – Piano Accompaniment;
16th National Competition for Best Performance of a Bulgarian Composition, “Varban Varbanov”, 2002, Burgas - Encouragement Award - Piano Duo

I started teaching first as a subject in my second and third level education, and later on in October 2014 as I started my piano studio in Monaghan, Ireland. In 2022/23 I completed a one-year, level 6 course in Music Composition for Video Games at Griffith College, Dublin and found that this is a field I really enjoy working in and would love to pursue even further. Possibly do a Master's degree in Music Composition for Film soon.