Ewa Tytman – Csiba
Piano Expert
Teaching Principles
With Ewa’s passionate yet patient teaching, all three of us (siblings) greatly improved and gained a deeper appreciation for music.
Ewa is an extremely professional, friendly, and positive tutor with vast knowledge of piano technique and repertoire.
If you want lessons with a great, friendly teacher who will make you at ease while encouraging you to achieve the most you can, then you will be very, very satisfied.
I really enjoyed my lessons with Ewa. Having had piano lessons before, I can say that she taught me more, and in more detail than my other teachers
Importantly, Ewa is very easy to talk to. Whenever I had a question, she took it seriously and gave as thorough an answer as was needed. She would also tell me if she thought I was focusing on something that wouldn’t benefit me with my goals, and I found this really helpful.
All in all, I can’t recommend Ewa highly enough as a piano teacher. She is phenomenal at this job, and it is clearly something she really enjoys as well.
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Bio
Ewa Tytman-Csiba is a Polish pianist and fortepiano player; born into a musical family. She is an active soloist and chamber musician, with a particular emphasis on historical performance.
Her students won numerous prizes at the UK piano festivals & competitions. She has 100% passed students’ exam rate and the students are achieving highly marked distinctions.
As a prizewinner of many piano competitions and festivals, she has presented solo recitals in the United States and Japan, and as a soloist, she has performed at music festivals in Germany, Canada, Poland, and the United Kingdom. She is an enthusiastic chamber musician and accompanist.
She received the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship for the highest artistic achievements and both in 2013 and 2014 she was awarded the Amadeus Fortepiano Prize at the Royal College of Music. She participated in and opened the 1st International Fryderyk Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw in 2018. She has won awards at numerous piano competitions, including the All-Poland CEA Competition for Piano Students of Music High Schools (1st prize), the 7th Ludwik Stefanski and Halina Czerny – Stefanska International Piano Competition in Plock (1st prize and two special prizes), the Paderewski Piano Competition in Cracow (2nd prize) and others. She was a finalist in the Chopin Prize competition at the Royal Northern College of Music.
In Poland, she was a student of Professor Paweł Skrzypek at Karol Szymanowski State School of Music in Płock. Continuing her studies in England, she received a scholarship from the Royal College of Music, where she studied piano with Niel Immelman and Kevin Kenner. Parallelly, she also studied fortepiano with Geoffrey Govier, developing her passion for early music, and received her first degree in both of these instruments, graduating with distinction. Subsequently, she obtained a Master of Music in Performance degree from the Royal Northern College of Music, where she was a scholar (Stanley Picker Trust) and studied with Dina Parakhina. Recently (2022), she completed her second Masters degree studies in Piano Performance (and also Pedagogical Studies) at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland), where she studied under the tutelage of Stefan Wojtas. She also gained a significant part of her musical knowledge from her parents, both renowned Polish piano teachers.
She participated in numerous masterclasses, working with many internationally renowned musicians and pedagogues to mention just a few: Robert Levin, Lee Kum Sing, John Perry, Andrzej Jasinski, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, Alexei Lubimov, Kristian Beizedenhout, Kenneth Gilbert, Nelson Goerner, Stanley Hoogland, Elzbieta Stefanska, Tobias Koch, Ewa Poblocka, Piotr Paleczny, Andrzej Artykiewicz, Czeslaw Stanczyk, Waldemar Wojtal, Jerzy Sulikowski.. In 2007 she participated in Morningside Music Bridge – a summer music institute for young musicians of extraordinary talent (Calgary, Canada).
Her recent engagements included performances at Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Steinway Hall in London, and many others.
She passionately tutors a piano class privately and at the Egerton Rothesay School in Berkhamsted (Bucks, UK) – a modern school supporting SEN students. She aims to pass on her extensive knowledge and share her love of music with other people. She was a piano teacher at Windsor Music Academy (2017 – 2019) and The Masters Music School (2016-2021).
