Tetyana Lutay is a piano teacher who knows she is destined to teach. Tetyana understands how to communicate with students, and release the passion in them. From the time she started to give lessons at the age of sixteen, she knew teaching would be a career for life. Tetyana was a natural at interacting with students and felt at ease when communicating her knowledge to others. Her philosophy for teaching lies in the basic belief that music should be fun and expressive. The way she teaches piano to beginners is to engage them through games and activities away from the keyboard, and offer all her students a teaching style that encourages their development of musicianship, individuality, and love for music. She has plenty of patience with her students and has a unique approach for each one.

About Tetyana:

At the age of seven, she started to take piano classes in the Lugansk Music School in Ukraine, were she was born. Even though playing the piano had always been enjoyable, practicing quickly became tedious. In the age of fourteen, Tetyana was accepted into the College of Music and Piano Performance. Tetyana became focused on becoming an extremely well-rounded pianist. She understood that the more knowledge she gained, the more her future students would benefit from her. After graduating from the College of Music, Tetyana was accepted to the very selective Prokofiev Music Academy of Piano Performance. This academy contains a professional music college for gifts children, where Tetyana was working as a piano teacher of students ranging in age from six to seventeen. Tetyana prepared students for keyboard proficiency examinations, couched for participation in the Sergei Prokofiev International Competition for Young Pianists, where her students won numerous prizes. Tetyana's enthusiasm for teaching continues to grow over the years. Working for the Lee Star Entertainment music company, Korea, Soul Tetyana gained some practical experience as an active solo performer of chamber music and as accompanist. After several years she continued her studies in Buchman-Mehta Academy of Music in Tel Aviv taking Prof. Michael Boguslavsky piano class. For a year Tetyana was studying in the piano class of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky, co-founder, artistic director and faculty member of the annual Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes in Israel. Tetyana has appeared in music halls of Israel and got many awards from festivals and competitions. She also diversified her portfolio with European piano school. Tetyana enjoined piano studies with Prof. Dimitri Alekseev (Royal College of Music in London), Prof. Stanislav Pochekin, "Concervatorio del Liceo" de Barcelona and Artistic Director of the International Piano Competition in Andora, Spain, Prof. Felix Gottlieb, Sttutgart, Germany. Tetyana also attended many festivals in Europe, among them "Internationale Klavierakademie" in Germany. Some of her awards include many merit scholarships from the University of Tel-Aviv, Switzerland and Ukraine. In Israel Tetyana also set up her private teaching and teaching in Ramat-Aviv School of Music "Alionot" for Pre-college students. She quickly filled up her classes with students ranging from 5 year old children to adults. Her students perform at annual recitals and workshops. Since 2007, Tetyana has worked with the Tonara Ltd, an Israeli hightech company specializing in music recognition technology. In this period she has helped develop various innovative music software projects for professional musicians and adults that enabled them to improve their music skills with the easiest way possible. Tetyana later demonstrated these music recognition algorithms to the company's clients.

After moving to US, Tetyana started her successful piano teaching practice. She is now helping students in the Philadelphia area from various age groups realize their performing potential.