Alongside lessons
Use the Academy as a complement to your lessons, exploring specialist areas, investigating repertoire and developing skills that may not always fit into regular lesson time.
Online learning for pianists
Enrich Your Musical Journey
Develop your skills, deepen your understanding and enjoy a more rewarding relationship with music through expert guidance, structured learning and shared experiences.
The Online Academy combines a growing library of practical resources with guided courses, live events, feedback opportunities and insights from leading pianists and educators.
Whether you study with a teacher, learn independently, are returning to the piano or teach others, it is designed to help you continue growing as a musician.
Much of a pianist's development happens between and around lessons.
The Online Academy brings together practical resources, specialist knowledge and shared learning experiences to support you whether you work with a teacher or learn independently.
Learning independently
Find reliable guidance, practical starting points and different expert perspectives when you need direction.
Support for the whole musical journey
Four Ways the Academy Can Support You
Play Better
Practise more purposefully, develop a healthy and responsive technique, learn repertoire more securely and communicate your musical ideas with confidence.
Explore Play BetterUnderstand More
Explore theory, sight-reading, style, structure and interpretation to deepen your understanding of the music you play and broaden your musicianship.
Explore Understand MoreConnect & Grow
Join workshops, Practice Clinics and performance events, ask questions, receive feedback and learn through the experiences of other pianists.
Explore Connect & GrowEnjoy More
Discover inspiring repertoire, build confidence, overcome frustrations and develop a freer, healthier and more fulfilling relationship with the piano.
Explore Enjoy More
Ways to Learn
Use the Academy in the Way That Suits You
Explore on demand, follow a structured route, join live learning or choose a specialist programme when you want to go deeper.
Find Guidance When You Need It
Explore more than 1,000 video lessons, articles and practical resources across practising, technique, repertoire, sight-reading, theory, performance and more.
Included with membershipFollow a Guided Route
Work through Right From the Start, our flagship course for beginning a new piece, alongside shorter structured series and mini-courses.
Included with membershipLearn Live and Receive Feedback
Join workshops, performance events and Practice Clinics, ask questions and learn through challenges and experiences shared by other pianists.
Clinic submissions included • event savingsChoose Specialist Programmes
Select premium courses, workshops and recordings that match your interests, with substantial savings for Academy members.
Member savings available
Different routes, shared purpose
Who Is the Academy For?
Returning Pianists
Refresh your skills, establish stronger foundations, rebuild confidence and discover new possibilities for continued progress.
Independent Learners
Find reliable guidance, practical starting points and expert help when you are uncertain how to approach the next challenge.
Pianists Working with Teachers
Get more from your practice between lessons and explore specialist topics or wider areas of musicianship in greater depth.
Teachers, Advanced Pianists and Music Students
Refine your own playing, broaden your knowledge and discover fresh ideas and perspectives to bring to your teaching.
What members say
Learning That Makes a Difference
“This is one subscription I would not want to be without. I use it regularly not only for my students but for my own playing. The content is presented by brilliant musicians and pedagogues and is constantly being added to.”Clare S.Pianist and piano teacher
“What a fantastic learning resource this has been. I have learnt so much and gained so much motivation from the Online Academy.”Peter C.Adult amateur pianist
“I have already learned something important. This is wonderful for someone in a small isolated town with no access to a great live teacher.”Aggie D.
“Even when I haven't submitted a question myself, I learn from the questions of other pianists. That is why I have remained a happy subscriber for four years.”Victor L.
“With Graham's help, I'm enjoying being back to teaching again. I couldn't do it without the help I'm getting from his practice tutorials.”Barbara W.Piano teacher
Learn from leading pianists and educators
Different Perspectives, Shared Expertise
Learn from a selection of leading pianists, teachers and specialists who have contributed to the Online Academy, including Graham Fitch, Penelope Roskell, William Westney, Ken Johansen, Fred Karpoff, Adina Mornell and others.
Graham Fitch
Penelope Roskell
William Westney
Ken Johansen
Fred Karpoff
Adina Mornell
Bringing together expertise in practising, technique, repertoire, performance, musicianship, creativity, psychology and teaching.
Brought Together with Purpose
Why I Created the Online Academy
I created the Online Academy because my own musical journey showed me both how easily gaps in education, technical problems and limited access to the right guidance can stand in the way of a rewarding experience at the piano, and how valuable a rich, broad musical education can be.
I benefited from different teachers, specialists, classes and perspectives, but also experienced the consequences of things that had been missed in my own training, which made returning to playing more difficult. Individual lessons are invaluable, but much of a pianist's development happens between and around them.
I wanted to make practical, specialist support more widely available, both to enrich the work people do with teachers and to provide guidance for those learning independently.
My role is to approach the material from the learner's perspective, bring together different specialists and shape their expertise into resources and experiences that people can put to use in their own playing.
Ultimately, the Academy exists to remove barriers and open up greater possibilities for enjoyment, expression and fulfilment at the piano.
Ryan MorisonFounder and Curator
Online Academy Membership
Ongoing Support for Your Musical Development
Membership gives you access to the core of the Online Academy, together with valuable benefits across our wider programme of courses, workshops and events.
- Full access to more than 1,000 core resources
- Right From the Start, our flagship guided course
- Shorter guided series and mini-courses
- Subscriber-only Practice Clinic question submissions
- 40% off live online events, including presentations and interactive workshops
- At least 20%, and up to 60%, off selected premium courses
- Ongoing additions to the core library
Selected courses, workshops and recordings can be purchased without subscribing. Membership provides the core ongoing experience and a best-value route into the wider programme through substantial subscriber savings.
Monthly Membership
£13.99 / month
Full access to the core Academy and subscriber benefits with flexible monthly billing.
Join MonthlyAnnual Membership
£119.99 / year
Everything in monthly membership plus three eBook and study-edition collections worth over £70 when purchased separately.
Join AnnuallyContinue Your Musical Journey
Discover new possibilities in your playing, learning and musical development with expert guidance and experiences designed to support you throughout your life at the piano.