Previous Success stories from our students:

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In the recent 2025 EPTA Competition:

Meilinda Monteza, 16, came first in her category (Advanced II) and was highly commended.

Meghan Tian, 7, received a distinction (Preliminary Level).

Armand Healy, 14, came in 2nd, despite obtaining a Distinction (15 Years and Under).

Aeneas Healy, 12, came first in his class with Highly Commended overall grading (12 and Under).

Vuk Hajdukovich, 12, attained a Merit in his class (Advanced I).

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2025 Exams (piano exams, unless otherwise noted):

Vuk Hajdukovich passed Grade 8 with distinction.

Lucas Xu passed Theory 5 and Grade 5 piano both with distinction.

Evie Dong passed the ABRSM ARSM Diploma with merit.

Toby Perrot passed ABRSM ARSM Diploma with distinction.

Sarah Melaine passed Grade 7 with merit.

Oscar Ni passed Grade 5 theory with distinction.

Effie Sun passed Grade 5 theory with distinction.

Rianna Nga Man Chan passed Grade 5 with distinction.

Winni passed Grade 6 with merit.

Jun Yu passed Grade 3 with merit.

Oscar Yu passed Grade 2 with merit.

Meghan Tian passed Grade 3 with merit.

Jennie Tian passed Grade 1 with distinction.

Alfred Wang passed Grade 4 with merit.

 

2024 Exams:

Jack Li passed his Grade 8 with distinction.

Meilinda Monteza passed Grade 8 with distinction.

Nell Deeney passed Grade 7 with distinction.

Carlotta Seadon passed Grade 7 with distinction.

Vuk Hajdukovich passed Grade 7 with distinction.

Sarah Melaine passed Grade 6 with distinction.

Isabella-Grace Emordi passed Grade 5 with merit.

Isabella Chan passed Grade 7 with merit.

Andrei Mocanu passed Grade 2 with merit.

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Leonardo Kelly Salazar has been offered places of study BMus in piano performance in several institutions (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Leeds Conservatoire, Manchester University, Leeds University, City University, Goldsmiths, University of London). He has completed with distinction his second year at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he is studying with the well-known pedagogue and concert pianist Dr. Robert Markham.

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Armand Healy, age 12, and Michael Bowry, age 14, have both gained their Grade 8 with distinction in 2023.

 

Meilinda Monteza, Steinway Scholar at Bromley High, has been awarded ABRSM Grade 7 with distinction (2022). Meilinda has also won first prize in a class at Maidstone Festival and subsequently was invited to compete for the Maidstone Young Musician of the Year 2023.

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Megan Tian was awarded a silver prize at the beginners' piano class in Beckenham Festival 2022. She was also awarded a gold medal in the PianoPlus competition adjudicated by Junior RAM's Duncan Honeybourne.

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Carlotta Allen-Seadon was awarded ABRSM Grade 6 with distinction in 2021.

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Leonardo Kelly-Salazar, who passed his ABRSM Grade 6 with distinction (2019), has won first prize at Maidstone Festival 2019, and second prize at Beckenham Festival 2019.

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Yuxuan Jiang was awarded first place, gold medal and the John Bigg Memorial Trophy as the overall winner of both classes of Grades 7 and 8 for his performance of Kapustin's Sonatina (Beckenham Festival 2019).

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Jiahe Tian, aged 10, passed her ABRSM Grade 7 with distinction in 2019. The following students also achieved distinctions in their Trinity Grade 1 exams in 2019: Amelie Moxey, Elijah Callingham, and Myron Ukposi.

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Isobel Choi, aged 10, won second prize in the Bromley Festival 2019.

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Carlotta Seadon, aged 11, was finalist and received a high merit in the Blackheath High School House Music Competition (2019).

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Panayotis Archontides' pupil Lulu Whittington achieved distinction at ABRSM Grade 8 (December 2019); Caden Cheong, aged 12, achieved distinction at Trinity Grade 7 (November 2019); Tristan Pilz achieved 98% in his ABRSM Grade 5 Theory (2019); Nirvana Che-Lai, aged 8, achieved distinction at ABRSM Grade 5 (2019). 

 

Congratulations to all!

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Pupils' successes 2016-2017:

In the recent Trinity Exams, Maddie Colyer, aged 9, pupil of Natalie Tsaldarakis, achieved distinction 94% at Grade 2.

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Dunming Xu, aged 10, also pupil of Natalie Tsaldarakis, achieved a distinction at Grade 1.

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Panayotis Archontides' pupil Nadine Whittington achieved distinction at ABRSM grade 2. Congratulations to all!

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Jiahe Tian, aged 8, pupil of Natalie Tsaldarakis, passed her ABRSM Grade 5 theory in the March 2017 exam (studying the Grade 4 and 5 theory material from scratch in under a month!). Jiahe also won 2nd place with Honours and silver Medal at the Bromley Festival 2017 (P18-Junior Bach class). Congratulations!

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Kitty Drummond, pupil of Natalie Tsaldarakis, successfully auditioned for Leeds Conservatory of Music, Leeds University, and Goldsmiths College (University of London) and received offers to study Music in all of them. Kitty has enthusiastically accepted LCM's offer and will be taking her place in September 2017.

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Congratulations again to Panayotis Archontides' pupil Alex Lau, who, having gained a position as music scholar at Cambridge University where he reads Maths since September 2016, has also been offered the opportunity to enter the Music department straight into year 2 from September 2017. We wish him much luck whatever may be his future choices!

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