Welcome to my piano lessons website! Here you can find out about lessons in playing the piano, composition and music technology.
I am Troy Banarzi. I have worked as a freelance teacher, performer and composer for over 10 years. I began my studies at the age of seven and first experimented with composing in my teens. I studied with critic and pianist Bryce Morrison before undertaking post graduate studies at London’s Trinity College of Music where I also took composition and orchestration lessons with Alwynne Pritchard and orchestration lessons with Stephen Montague.
My performance career to date has been challenging and varied, encompassing a variety of musical genres. My playing experience takes in live recitals, studio recordings, and sessions for television programs and adverts.
My compositions have been performed at the Tate Britain, Zoo Art Fair, Laban, Whitechapel Gallery and the National Maritime Museum, and feature regularly on BBC television and radio, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. My major work, Euphonika, was funded by the Arts Council, and recieved its debut at hoxton hall, where it was recorded and subsequently broadcast by resonance fm.
My television credits include music for Newsnight, Richard and Judy, Dispatches, Really Wild Show, Balls of Steel, Property People, Our house, Looking for Victoria, ITV Missing News, This Morning, Inside Out, Art Attack, Truelife, Flog It, Way To Go, Diary of a Duchess, Vanity Fair, Stories from the Street, Maps of Meaning, Tony Danza Show, So What Do You Do All Day, Private Life of a Masterpiece, Brunel the Little Giant, Sex and the Village, Place in the Sun, NBA Basketball, This World, How London Was Built, Run for Glory and Indian Finishing School.
As a piano teacher, I specialize in teaching a style which is based on secure classical technique in order to provide a solid foundation for pupils to branch into other non-classical styles. I aim to facilitate an understanding of the mechanics of the body, demonstraing how they relate to playing the piano, in order to enable pupils to play with ease and confidence in a wide variety of styles.
As a composition teacher, I encourage a rounded musicianship, including an understanding of traditional harmony and counterpoint as a basis for my students to develop their own individual styles. As well as teaching traditional methods of writing music with manuscript paper, I also welcome the use of computers as a compositional tool for more experimental or commercial composition.
