We designed each one of our places to inspire. Each one of them has a theme. Kensington is Victorian, Camberwell is 60’s, and Bermondsey is “The City”.
The jewel of the crown of our venue collection is the WKMT Rectorate; sitting within the heart of one of Spains most beautiful and elegant ancient cities, Mondonedo. We use the rectorate mainly for intensive courses open to our London students.
At WKMT, we believe in a complete approach to music. Since 2010 that we are trying to ensure our students access a full musical experience when deciding to study with us at WKMT.
We teach our students independent learning.
One of the main points in this line of thinking is to ignite in the student a set of cognitive skills that allow them to optimise their learning processes, applying it to the Piano technique.
How does it work?
We encourage our students to become aware of their mental processes and strategies (metacognition) in order to control and modify them (autonomy), improving performance and learning efficiency.
In Music Pedagogy, there is a technique that is has been successful in teaching in this line of thinking, the Scaramuzza technique, which gives the student the tools to exert the correct steps to follow in a productive way to achieve the desired results. We specialise in this technique at our London studio
Which is the role of the teacher at WKMT?
The teacher's role starts in finding what the student traits and potential are.
Confidence, guidance and motivation are essential to a successful outcome, working towards a self-training rather than mere correction, balancing between encouragement and authority.
The teacher's role is to be a facilitator who guides the student to organise contents that are relevant, functional and well structured so that they can be internalised and learned in a comprehensive and non-mechanical way.
The teacher should permanently diagnose the emotional state, the cognitive level and the interests of the student, promoting learning autonomy.
At WKMT, we work as a reliable team, with one technical framing given by the Scaramuzza technique, and the pedagogical outlines inherited from the prestigious European lineage that gave concert pianists such as Martha Argerich, Bruno Gelber o Sergio Tiempo.
The outline is shaped under our tailored-student programmes and our weekly reports sent to the students or student's parents to keep an efficient track of their progress and facilitating the communication between both parties.
Both reports and student programmes are supervised continuously by WKMT founder and Director, Juan Rezzuto, and our Educational Director, Gisela Paterno, ensuring a consistent and successful training to the students under WKMT tutelage.
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