Writer Katherine Clements joined Manchester Piano Tutor in June 2017. She's a fortnightly student who weaves her piano practise and lessons in between her busy life as a historical novelist and with other writing commitments.

     Katherine, who live...

I don't enter many students for exams, mainly because I specialise in adults who don't wish to do them but also because it's important my students have reached the playing level of the exams they're taking.

I hear all too many stories of poor results and failures from s...

...but we never got to meet him.  It didn't really matter. How often will I get the chance to be a backing singer for the last of America's greatest showmen, singers, composers, arrangers? It was a miracle that I got to do this in the first place.

Two years ago, I...