Guzheng Lessons

  • Private guzheng lessons

    An assessment of each student’s personal and musical characteristic is conducted to assign the most suitable teacher, who will provide a tailored teaching plan for the student.  This process establishes the style of teaching, key milestones, and degree of difficulty to match the student’s ability.  We find this personalised approach maximises the learning experience and improvement efficiency.

  • Guzheng Junior group lessons

    Suitability: age 5 to 18

    Commitment: 1-hour lesson once a week, up to 4 people

    We will separate the children based on age and current skill level.  Ping Jiang will be the main teacher for all junior group classes.  She follows the academic exam book from the China Central Conservatorium of Music with popular music included as extra curriculum.  These classes will involve regular practise sessions and rehearsals for community performances.

  • Guzheng Adult group lessons

    Suitability: adults with or without prior music experience

    Commitment: 1-hour lesson once a week, up to 4 people

    Teaching objectives: To play guzheng at a professional and/or performance level.  Systematic guzheng techniques and knowledge (tone, rhythm, hand position, sight reading, and music performance) are taught based on the National Guzheng Grading Textbook.

  • Parent-children guzheng lessons

    Suitability: Parents and children interested in learning guzheng together.

    Commitment: 1-hour lessons once a week

    Teaching objectives: Parents and children who are interested in guzheng, or parents who would like to help their children practice at home. Through parent and children classes, this creates a special environment for parents and children as they become ‘classmates and friends’, bringing parents and children together as they study and learn whilst enhancing the children’s ability and interest to learn.  This creates a very interesting combination, as parents are also eager to help their children grow.

  • VCE Guzheng Music performance Lessons

    Suitability: Private lessons offered to students who perform at Grade 8 or above and has chosen guzheng as their VCE music performance instrument.  All participants will need to pass an exam before entering this music class.

    Teaching objectives: Adhering to the requirements and needs of VCE music performance examination; playing strengthening exercises, strengthening performance skills, deepening the understanding of music, and examinations skills.  Lessons are taught by Ping Jiang, personalised teaching programs are developed according to the student’s characteristics, including executing important points, training, and when necessary, music theory and aural comprehension training.

  • Guzheng teacher training lessons

    Suitability:  Private lessons offered to current Guzheng Grade 10 and above students or current guzheng teachers who are looking to improve their teaching skills

    Teaching objectives: Start from the basic playing techniques, specific teaching methods for each skill, traditional music playing each style/methodology, music structure, teaching tonal music, etc.  A good guzheng teacher requires three core skills: a solid foundation in music theory, excellent playing skills, and ability to produce tailored teaching plans.  These three are closely related but are not the same.  Through this course, students can obtain comprehensive improvements in the above aspects.

  • Guzheng online group lessons

    For those who are time poor or reside long distances, our online zoom classes may be what you need.  We will send you a recorded video after each lesson for you to review your progress.  Assigned homework will need to be recorded and sent back to the teacher each week.   Personal feedback is provided after each practise.

Video of recorded lesson

Pricing of lessons

Junior teacher $80/hour

Senior teacher $90/hour

Principal teacher $100/per hour

VCE guzheng lesson $120/Per hour

Group lessons $40/per hour

Online zoom lesson $25/per hour

Guzheng for sale

We offer quality Guzheng, Erhu, and Pipa for sale at a very competitive price. Please check our store for the latest availability.

Guzheng for rent

We offer rental guzheng for our own students. An upfront deposit of $600-$1000 is required and a rental fee of $50-$60/ per month will be deducted from the deposit.

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Book lessons  — 50% off for new guzheng students

30mins for beginners : $25

60mins for students with prior experience : $50

Guzheng Teachers

Ping Jiang

Director

Ping Jiang

Senior AA Teacher

Ping Jiang is a guzheng teacher at Confucius Institute at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Music education from Conservatorium of music of Huaibei Normal University and completed her Master of Guzheng performance studies at the Conservatorium of music of Anhui Normal University.
Ping’s accomplishments to date includes:
* Silver at The Seventh Session of the National Art World Festival in 2005
* Silver at The Chang Ming Cup Guzheng competition in 2004
* Three of her students won gold at the national “China Red Composition” music competition in 2010

Lily Zhou

Junior Teacher

Lily Zhou

Junior Guzheng Teacher

Lucy Han

Senior A Teacher

Lucy Han

I began learning the Guzheng at the age of five. At the age of ten, I passed the Guzheng tenth level examination with excellent results. At the age of fifteen, I held a solo Guzheng concert for the first time. From 2007, I started to study under Wangwei, a famous Guzheng player as well as a professor in Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Having won many highest rewards in various Guzheng competitions both municipal and provincial, including one gold medal from a national competition called ‘Oriental Youth Star Art Competition’, I consider myself to have accomplished a relative high level of the Guzheng performance with a good command of playing techniques and rich stage experience.

Xue Chen

Senior A Teacher

Xue Chen

Xue Chen, born in March of 1981, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Graducated from Zhejiang Art School and Shanghai Conservatory Of Music on traditional zither. Been taught by Mrs Gu Xiaoyan (National First Class zither performer), Professor Yuan Li and Professor Sun Wenyan (Both professors of Shanghai Conservatory Of Music). Worked for Zhejiang Opera Theater, Zhejiang Culture Museum and Zhejiang Provincial Culture Department.

Carrie Zhang

Senior A

Carrie Zhang

Carrie has been playing Guzheng since she was 6 years old under Yue Qiu, a young famous musician in China. From 2004, she started to study under Yun Qv, who is a prominent professor in Xi An Conservatory of Music. Carrie has also been taught by Lin Ling, who was one of the eminent Guzheng players, as well as a professor in China Conservatory of music. She is currently completing a Master degree of Education at Monash University.

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