The Encore on Keys music course is designed for Piano and Strings. It develops complete musicians through performance pieces, improvisation, aural training and awareness, keyboard harmony, sight-reading, chord chart reading, ensemble playing, transposition, rhythm development and music literacy. View flyer here

Key Elements of Junior Piano:

• Songs – for musical enjoyment, expression and foundation movement activities
• Finger Zips – small pieces that develop keyboard skills on a micro level
• Repertoire Pieces – solo performance pieces
• Ensembles – develop part-playing skills, group interaction and team playing
• Solfege/Solfa Singing – builds an aural library of melodic patterns
• By-Ear Playing – connecting keyboard playing with aural perception
• Flash Cards – enhance reading skills and reinforce theory concepts
• CDs – provide an aural model featuring outstanding arrangements.

"Best Australian Made"

This program won the Australian Music Association "Best Australian Made" award for print music or music software in 2010.

The award was based on the:

• High production qualities of the Books, CDs, Flash Cards and toys
• Educational effectiveness of the content, including the comprehensive Teacher Guides
• Success in marketing these new materials to teachers and parents in a number of countries including Australia

FREE Trial lesson *

We are offering a FREE Trial lesson (conditions apply).
* The first lesson will be free, if the child joining already established group. If there is no a group, the Trial lesson has to be paid on the day of the lesson before you commit to the Term booking.

Contact Us

Please fill up the Enquiry Form here and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Or call us on 9942 4066 for more information about Encore on Keys Program at Alla's Music Studio.

Alla Guberman

Alla is the director and founder of Alla's Music Studio has been playing and teaching the piano for over 25 years.

Alla started her professional music education in Russia and completed in Australia, at Melbourne Monash University. Under the guidance of Tamara Smolyar (a continuer of traditional Russian piano school) and the team of pianists - Max Cooke, Robert Chamberlain and Darryl Coote (continuers of French piano school), Alla graduated with a Masters in Music (piano performance) from Monash University.

She was awarded a High Distinction for Piano Performance as part of her Master's degree (click to listen Alla's performances).

Alla enjoys teaching piano to children from the ages of 2.5 years old, as well as primary, secondary and tertiary students and adults. She starts with student from 2.5 years old and leads them to the highest grades of AMEB or ABRSM.

Alla believes that one of the most important parts of her teaching is to explain to her students how to practice at home, between piano lessons in class. How to benefit the most from practice sessions. Alla sets up clear home tasks for the student in their music diary and every lesson begins from checking those tasks. New steps can be taken once the previous assigned tasks have been completed and understood by the student.

Alla's education in Preschool programs.

Alla completed Preschool music education and attained her License for teaching Kinder Beat level 1,2,3 and Encore on Keys music programs in 2014 with Encore Music Education team, creators of the program Mark Gibson and Morna Robinson.

Encore on Keys student - Yu Ting

Yu Ting started music lessons when she was 2,5 years old with group classes Kinder Beat 2. Now she is 4 years old and she made her way to piano course Encore on Keys book 4. She able to read wide range of music notes in both treble and bass clef, play pieces with triads in one hand along with the melodic line in the other hand, recognize all the music terminology and follow dynamics and details such as legato and staccato.

Playing piano and understanding music theory helped Yu Ting with her violin lessons which she began at the age of 3,5. Now she is preparing to violin AMEB exam preliminary grade. Yu Ting successfully performed her puano pieces from Encore on keys book 3 at the end of year 2017 student concert. You can listen a recording of her performance below.