30 Years of Solving Piano Playing's Toughest Blocks
Much music teaching provides weekly motivation. Piano Portals provides radical solutions.
After 30 years of teaching, I’ve realised the traditional "weekly half-hour" can be slow to solve problems. It can become a maintenance cycle rather than a radical path to mastery.
I work differently. I give you the compass (a bespoke video audit) and the map (the Piano Portals online school) so you can become your own best teacher.
- Excess tension?
- Can't memorise?
- Can't play by ear?
- Lacking flow?
- Hestitant playing?
- Learning inaccurately?
- Stage fright?
- Practice feels a chore?
Piano Portals has empowered me and its many clients to burst through all of these barriers and more.
Submit a short video illustrating your current technical challenge(s).
Receive a high-quality, respectful 15-minute video audit suggesting a holistic roadmap for troubleshooting technique. Full instructions supplied on payment.
N.B. This is a bespoke, prerecorded video product, not a live 1-2-1 interaction. Adults Only (18+)
Meet Your Tutor
Piano Portals Founder, Stephen Marquiss, journeyed from frustration to facility in playing in his 30s and 40s.
In the late 1990s, he left music school frustrated by recurring injury and a ceiling on technique.
Stephen spent 25 years refining a groundbreaking, holistic approach to piano technique that empowers Elementary to Advanced pianists to play to their potential.
Inspired by Abby Whiteside (1881-1956), Piano Portals is an accessible, joyful online school for technique and radical substitute for conventional exercises.
Stephen is an experienced pianist, tutor and speaker. He's been a piano tutor for the prestigious Jackdaws Music Education Trust since 2017 and three times an invited speaker at the UK Music and Drama Education Expo. His work has been featured in International Piano and Music Teacher Magazines and on BBC Radio 3.
@pianoportals on YouTube for free tutorials
@stephenmarquisspiano on YouTube for playing videos
