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Ludgate Hill Music, led by classical pianist and Royal Academy of Music alumna Leona Crasi, is a teaching studio in the City of London that provides private music lessons and performance opportunities to learners of all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome, including complete beginners, returning students and those at a more advanced level.

Our studio’s main focus is to encourage as many members of London’s community to join the world of music-learning. Lessons can offer so much more than just learning to play or sing pieces; research proves that in the process of learning music, our cognitive function strengthens, improving our memory and focus, and our dopamine levels rise, relieving stress and building self-confidence. All whilst learning some of your favourite songs!

If you’d like to get a feel for our studio, you can join one of our free monthly open studio sessions. Sign up via the link or just turn up!

MORE ABOUT OUR LESSONS

We work closely with amateur musicians, encouraging adult learners to take part in performance opportunities, we also teach absolute beginners (both adults and children) who are picking up music for the first time. We welcome:

  • absolute beginners

  • students preparing for ABRSM or other graded exams

  • students returning after a long break

  • self-taught players

  • amateur musicians

LHM hosts regular events and collaborations with the hope of encouraging as many music lovers to come together to experience different spectrums of training and performance opportunities. Students have performed at Mercato Marylebone, The Red Hedgehog, The Royal London Hospital, and many more local venues.

 

Teachers and Staff

  • A young woman with long dark hair, gold hoop earrings, and a sheer black top, posing in front of a piano.

    Leona Crasi

    FOUNDER | PIANO & SINGING

    Leona is a Romanian-American pianist and founder of LHM. She trained as a classical pianist, earning her B.Mus and M.Mus from the Royal Academy of Music, and has since focused on providing lessons and performance opportunities for amateur pianists. Driven by her passion for teaching, she opened the doors to ICP in 2021 with the aim of creating a space where music profesisonals, emerging young musicians, and amateur musicians could come together.

    As a performer, Leona specialises in Hungarian 19th and 20th centruy repertoire. She has appeared in venues and festivals such as the Lucerne Piano Fetsival in Switzerland, the Bloomsbury Music Fetsival in London, the Aegean Music Festival in Greece, the Hungarian Cultural Institutes in Vienna and Budapest, and the Royal Theatre in Morocco. She has been a guest teacher at the Fatima Refugee Centre in Bangkok, the Mohacs Masterclasses in Hungary, the Red Hedgehog in London, and the Sigismund Toduta Music College in Romania.

    In 2020 she worked alongside the cultural planning team at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London assisting in the continuation of cultural events during the pandemic, and alongside her teaching, she remains active in cultural diplomacy.

    Listen to Leona performing Ligeti.

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    Anjulie Chen

    PIANO

    German classical pianist Anjulie is an emerging young artist who is establishing a reputation as a musician with “an admirable musical sensibility”. Her playing has been praised for its “subtlety, stylishness and warmth” that is “full of poise, elegance and feeling”.

    Anjulie engages with a multitude of works, but is especially devoted to Schubertian and French repertoire - a passion that has led her to work with eminent artists such as Thomas Adés and Kirill Gerstein on invitation by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dame Imogen Cooper, Pascal Rogé and Dina Yoffe.

    She is also a passionate chamber musician and has been accepted to numerous prestigious festivals such as the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, the Oxford Piano Festival and the Virtuoso&BelCanto Festival on invitation by cellist Adrian Brendel.

    Listen to Anjulie performing Bach.

  • Young woman playing a violin indoors with a brown textured wall background.

    Ana Popescu-Deutsch

    VIOLIN

    Romanian-born violinist, Ana, started to sing before she could talk properly. At age six she was spotted by a music teacher from the George Enescu Music College in Bucharest, where she commenced her formal music training.

    Ana has won prizes at national and international competitions, including the 'Lorenzo Perosi' International Competition (first prize), Romanian Music Olympics (special prize), and the 'Timotei Popovici' National Music Performance Competition (first prize).

    Ana is passionate about folk music, specifically of the Balkan, Irish and Klezmer styles, appearing on Romanian television both at educational programs and shows together with Grigore Lese (one of Romania’s top ethnomusicologists).

    She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of music, earning her B.Mus with Richard Deakin and M.A. with Mateja Marinkovic. Between 2018 and 2019 she was part of the Southbank Sinfonia cohort.

    Listen to Ana performing Bartok.