MEET OUR PIANO ACADEMY INSTRUCTORS & SUPPORT TEAM
Meet our wonderful team of highly qualified instructors. They are all professionally trained experts in piano with extensive industry experience. Our instructors are motivated, committed, and love sharing their knowledge - they are pianists teaching piano lessons! Not to mention our world class pianist AyseDeniz as our school ambassador and co-owner. Together with our efficient support team, you can be sure you will be welcomed and looked after.
Enroll now to start your piano journey with sLs - Borderless piano academy Japan.
Private masterclass with AyseDeniz
Here is your unique chance to learn how to play the piano in a live, private masterclass with AyseDeniz. AyseDeniz is Kawai artist and a concert pianist. She has performed in over 25 countries as a soloist around the world ranging from classical to rock festivals and concert halls.
These classes are designed for you by AyseDeniz covering all genres of music.
Book a time that works for you and we will send you all the information you need to have a successful online class with AyseDeniz. Remember to check that the time you're booking is in your timezone! Piano masterclass
Support Team
Chikako Ota
Bachelor in Health science Osaka University
Master in Health science Osaka University
Master in Business Management, Nagoya University of Commerce & Business
Languages - Japanese and English
Katherine
She started learning piano at the age of 6.
Kathrine equipped with knowledge in both classical and jazz/popular music.
Languagues - English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese and Bahasa
Piano Instructors
Alejandra Jurado is a professional piano teacher graduated from the University of Cauca, Colombia. She has been awarded the First Prize at the "National Competition for Young Talents 2000" by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Valle, as well as the First Prize at the competition "Sala Beethoven 7.30" in Cali in 2008 and 2009. With ten years of experience as a piano teacher under her belt, she worked at Cauca University and Nariño University, forming and educating new generations of young pianists. She has been an active performer as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist for other instruments and various musicians. She worked in the Philippines and Japan, and it is because of her deep interest in more disciplines of the human spirit beyond the arts, that she trained and grew in other fields of education, enriching her expertise and making her teaching system more holistic and integrated to the life of her apprentices. "I strongly believe that teaching is like opening a door to a world of discovery where we both learn, hand to hand with the student".
Fluent in Spanish, English and Japanese.
Japanese-American pianist Yurie Farnsworth has established herself as an emerging young artist across Oregon, Texas and Japan.
In 2008, Yurie won the 2nd place title at the National level of the MTNA Piano Competition. As a Junior at the Shepherd School of Music, Yurie became the first undergraduate student to win the school’s piano concerto competition in many years, and was subsequently presented as a soloist with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra in 2015. . In 2019, Yurie won 3rd prize at the Aoniyoshi Music Competition in Nara, Japan. In 2021, Yurie won the Grand Rachmaninoff Prize, as well as the overall 2nd prize at the 3rd International Rachmaninoff Piano Competition. In 2024, Yurie presented her doctorate thesis, “The art of intoning music: an alternative approach to analysis and interpretation of Rachmaninoff’s piano music through Boris Asafiev’s theory of intonation”, alongside a final exam performance consisting of Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto and second piano sonata, the latter of which was arranged by Yurie as a mix of both the 1913 and 1931 versions.
Yurie has also performed in various venues across Japan and in Tokyo, including the salon concert halls at the Ginza Yamaha and Omotesando Kawai buildings, as well as with orchestra at the Sumida Triphony Hall. .
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Emi-sensei began playing the piano at the age of 6 and moved to the USA at the age of 19 for language study.
During her studies, she was a member of the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, an American music foundation, and participated in many concerts at the Tenri Cultural Society in New York, as well as at the International House New York, The Longy School of Music in Boston, Miami Senior High School and Halle in Germany.
She has participated in international music festivals such as the Euromusic Festival Academy and the Miami Music Festival, where she studied with Alexandre Mutuskin, Anton Nail, Daniel Shapiro and Alexei Gorlach.
Since graduating, she has worked as an online piano teacher, teaching students of all ages in English.
Carrissa started learning the piano at the age of 10. She passed her ABRSM Grade 8 Piano with Distinction at the age of 17. Carrissa is a Music graduate from King’s College London, United Kingdom. Her study in King’s leads to advanced work in History of Western Music, Musicology, Music Performance (Piano), Music Composition and Music Analysis.
Carrissa received her piano training at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She passed her Piano Performance Examination with a First-class result.
Carrissa was selected to participate in various music festivals in the Europe, including the FEST- YN (2017), Spain; the VI & VII International Piano Festival Torre de Canyamel, Spain (2017,2018), which was organized in collaboration with the Royal College of Music (RCM) and the Moscow Conservatory, She has performed alongside with pianists from the UK, Spain, Russia, China, Japan and Korea during the international piano festival. In 2018,
Carrissa has 8 years of teaching experience in Music, specializing in Piano Performance teaching. In her teaching, she focuses on delivering specific performing techniques required for different musical works from each musical period, and helps to solve technical issues in piano playing.