Meet Our Team
Windsor Piano School was founded in 2008 and has taught families across Windsor, Slough and Berkshire for more than 18 years. Every teacher here is conservatoire-trained and works to the same standard: a written progression pathway, specific practice targets after each lesson, termly reviews rather than guesswork, and ABRSM exams hosted in our own building. Teachers are matched to each student at the twenty-minute taster session for £18, so you meet the person who would actually teach you before you commit to anything.
One shared standard across every department.
Piano, violin, guitar, drums and singing, all taught to the same written pathway.
The person who set the standard
Founded on one idea: the right teacher for each student.
Edita Stankeviciute, Principal and Founder of Windsor Piano School.
Edita Stankeviciute
Edita founded Windsor Piano School in 2008, after more than 30 years spent teaching, performing and leading music education. She built the school around a straightforward idea: every student deserves a teacher who understands their personality, recognises their potential and helps them progress with confidence.
That philosophy still decides how the school runs. Teaching is not limited to getting through the next weekly lesson — technique, musicianship, creativity, independence and confidence are developed along a clear, structured pathway, and progress is reviewed each term rather than assumed. Under her direction the school became an official ABRSM Private Visit Centre, hosting practical exams on site three times each academic year so students play in a familiar room on a familiar piano.
- Founded Windsor Piano School in 2008 — more than 18 years established
- More than 30 years teaching, performing and leading music education
- Distinguished Teaching Award, recognised among 146 music studios and schools
- Official ABRSM Private Visit Centre, with exams hosted on site
- Registered with the UK Register of Learning Providers, UKPRN 10067404
The teaching team
Eighteen conservatoire-trained teachers across five departments. Everyone here teaches to the same written pathway and the same expectations, whatever the instrument. You are matched with the teacher who suits the student at the £18 taster session.
Alexandra Vilmányi
Alexandra is a Guildhall School of Music and Drama alumna who trained in piano at the Liszt Ferenc Music College in Budapest and studied harpsichord with Nicholas Parle. She has taught in Budapest and London for over a decade and brings a strong classical and early-music grounding to her piano teaching.
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Andrei Pytaleu
Andrei graduated from the Minsk Conservatoire with a triple Masters in concert performance, accompaniment and piano pedagogy, and was formerly an accompanist at the National Opera House in Minsk. He has taught students at every level since 1985 and is equally at home in classical and jazz repertoire.
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Benjamin Villa
London-born pianist, conductor and composer Benjamin studied at the Purcell School of Music on a full scholarship and at the University of Performing Arts in Graz. He has conducted the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and teaches with the aim of forming well-rounded musicians rather than competent players.
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Ivan Penev
Ivan holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is completing a PhD at City, University of London on Liszt’s piano sonatas. He performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Plovdiv Philharmonic early in his career and teaches from beginner level to the upper grades.
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Milena Dzhambova
Milena holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from one of Bulgaria’s leading conservatoires and has more than a decade of teaching experience. She works across classical and modern styles and is particularly good at keeping younger beginners engaged while the fundamentals go in properly.
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Nadia Giliova
Nadia trained at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, graduating with distinction, before continuing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has performed at Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre, and shapes each lesson closely around the student in front of her.
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Richard Mecarsel
Richard is a Lebanese-French pianist and musicologist who took his piano performance degree at the National Lebanese Conservatory and is completing a doctorate at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught piano since 2013 and pairs technical work with a genuine grounding in theory and musical culture.
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Saul Picado
Portuguese pianist Saul holds a Masters from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, supported by scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Steinway & Sons. He joined Windsor Piano School in 2014 and teaches repertoire from Baroque to contemporary, adapting his method to each student.
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Shaun Lyon
Shaun studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music and holds a Masters in Music Performance Studies from City, University of London. With more than three decades of teaching behind him, he has guided a long list of students through the grades and beyond.
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Timothy Chau
Timothy has more than 35 years at the piano and holds the ATCL performance diploma from Trinity College. He began teaching at 18 and spent four years as principal pianist at a ballet school in Hong Kong, and has since prepared many students for exams and competitions.
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Carla Santos
Carla is a Portuguese violinist and a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Professor Radu Blidar as an RCM Scholar. She teaches across the full age range and is particularly effective with beginners, where her insistence on unhurried, correct fundamentals pays off for years afterwards.
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Samuel Cubarsi
Samuel trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and continued his studies at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Austria. A former principal leader of Catalonia’s National Youth Orchestra, he brings a chamber music and pedagogy background that suits students preparing for ensembles, auditions and the upper grades.
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Paulo Estevao Andrade
Paulo is a guitarist, educator and researcher with a Masters in Psychology and Neuroscience of Music from Goldsmiths, University of London, and more than 30 years as a performer, arranger and composer. He teaches acoustic and electric guitar across classical, jazz, bossa nova and blues, to students of all ages.
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Francesco Borrelli
Francesco began drumming in Naples at the age of six and went on to study classical percussion alongside piano and music theory. He has toured Italy extensively as a live and session drummer, and teaches rhythm and technique from the very first lesson upwards.
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Owain Hanford
Owain graduated in Popular Music from Falmouth University and gained a Merit in Popular Music Performance from the Institute of Popular Music Performance in London. He has toured the UK, Ireland and America and recorded at Abbey Road, and teaches across rock, pop and contemporary styles.
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Thomas Charlton
Tom trained at Trinity College of Music London and Drumtech Acton and has sixteen years of teaching experience with beginners through to advanced players. He teaches the Rock School syllabus for students who want exams, and a style-based, technique-driven route for those who do not.
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Emin Eminzada
Emin studied at the Baku Music Academy and BIMM London and is a Presidential Scholar listed in Azerbaijan’s Golden Book of Young Talents. He has taken masterclasses in classical singing with Robertino Loreti and in pop and soul with Stevie Mackey, and teaches both classical technique and contemporary styles.
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John Holland-Avery
John holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Royal Northern College of Music along with DipABRSM and ALCM diplomas. He has performed live on BBC Radio 3 and was a Lay Clerk at St John’s College, Cambridge, and teaches confidently across classical, opera and musical theatre.
Read full biographyMeet your teacher before you commit
Book a twenty-minute taster session for £18. You will be matched with a teacher, see exactly how a lesson runs and can ask anything you like before deciding on weekly lessons.
Lessons are £31 for 30 minutes, £43 for 45 minutes and £61 for 60 minutes — the same rate for every instrument. Full details are on Fees 2026/27.