European School of Music & Chess

03/21/2026

A Note From Our Piano Teacher, Susanna:

"I wanted to share this because of the meaningful growth I’ve experienced at European School of Music, both personally and professionally. It’s my fifth year teaching here, and Angela, the school’s founder and director, has played a central role in my development as both a pianist and a teacher. Thanks to her guidance, I’ve begun to play with much greater awareness, depth, and intention. She helped me experience music in a new way — on a more internal and spiritual level — and this has truly transformed how I understand, feel, and express music.

One of the most inspiring parts of Angela’s approach is the use of nature imagery to explain musical flow, gravity, and tonal color. Visualizing waterfalls, rivers, and the movement of water has helped me understand phrasing and relaxation in a deeply intuitive way — the natural gravity of falling water mirrors the physical sense of letting gravity work through the body when playing. She also uses the shades and colors of nature, like sunlight in a forest or the many tones of autumn leaves, to illustrate the mastery of tonal colors at the piano.

This approach has deeply influenced my own performances and piano teaching. For example, at a recent student recital, I performed Schubert’s Impromptu in E-flat major and introduced it by describing its contrasting sections: one flowing like a waterfall rushing into a mountain river, full of movement and light; the other stormy and dramatic, like waves growing from small to immense. Using nature as a frame helps students listen more imaginatively and understand musical character in a way that feels concrete.

Children respond very naturally to this way of learning. They often understand the natural world long before they can articulate emotions, and these visualizations help them develop musical expression, critical thinking, and a deeper appreciation for beauty. It’s like seeing the world first in black and white, and then suddenly in color — a whole new dimension opens. Our school’s source book, "Waterfalls of Georgia" with its vivid, lifelike nature photos helps our students to immerse themselves in nature and visualize the beauty of natural scenery and flow of water that resonates with many of the music pieces they are learning.

I am deeply grateful for this enhanced musical vision and the unique pedagogical training Angela has established at The Conservatoire - European School of Music that helped me to grow musically and to pass it on to my students."

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05/12/2025

Love song on Mother's Day with Schubert's music and Waterfalls of Georgia. Performed by ESM student Vedant, who won Silver Prize at UK Schubert International Young Artist Competition 2025.

Vedant's performance - Silver Prize at UK Schubert International Young Artist Competition 2025Many thanks to our teachers, Juliana for vocal training, and Ca...

01/23/2025

Today is one month since the funeral of Lyudmila, who was the co-founder of European School of Music. She taught piano here for 20 years from the school's very beginning in 1993. In a tribute at our school after the funeral, our teachers performed some of her favorite music. Here is one of the songs, by Rachmaninoff, who was one of her beloved composers.

Many thanks to Juliana and Jo, ESM teachers, for their music tribute performed on the day of the funeral for Lyudmila Oyzboyd, who was the co-founder of Euro...

01/02/2025

Vedant’s piano and voice brings memory of Lyuda’s favorite music.

This performance was at the ESM Winter Recital December 15, 2024 just two days before Lyudmila Oyzboyd died. She was a co-founder of European School of Music - a remarkable teacher and pianist. Lyuda taught at ESM for its first 20 years, from 1993, passing on the classical music heritage to her students, many of whom became winners of piano competitions.

Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude was one of her favorite pieces which she mastered in music college in Belarus. Schubert's Ständchen (Serenade) brought her lots of joy, listening to an arrangement of this masterpiece as a piano duet performed by Vedant and Carlos with Juliana singing, where all three performers merged together at ESM’s 30th Anniversary. Now Vedant, Juliana’s student, sings it in the original German language. Lyuda’s dream to pass on the priceless music heritage continues at European School of Music. We know our alumni pass it on to their children, and we hope that they will carry it on too.

Vedant’s piano and voice brings memory of Lyuda’s favorite music.This performance was at the ESM Winter Recital December 15, 2024 just two days before Lyudmi...

01/02/2025

Happy New Year with the first sunset of 2025!

01/01/2025

European School of Music is very grateful to Matthew for his musical tribute that he did at the time of Lyuda’s funeral on December 22nd, 2024. His beautiful singing piano tone and expressive playing of "A Tear" by Mussorgsky is an example of what Lyuda taught. Now, years later, Susanna, Matthew’s teacher, is continuing this priceless tradition of classical music being taught in the way that the greatest composers intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9DOrxp00E

12/29/2024

In Memory of Lyuda Oyzboyd, a remarkable teacher and pianist, who passed away December 17, 2024.

Lyuda was the co-founder of European School of Music. where she taught piano for 20 years. "A Tear” by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, performed by our student Matthew Symons, expresses the feelings of our loss, as well as our gratitude for the classical music heritage that Lyuda passed on to her students.