Hi, I’m an old bloke who never got the opportunity to learn the piano when I was growing up, and I’m not sure I would have had I been given the opportunity. Early this year (2024), I decided that it was time to give it a try; I have sufficient resources to get decent equipment and enough time to practice a reasonable amount. So here we are.

I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and currently live in the Blue Mountains to the west of the city. I attended Sydney University after finishing high school and have a Science Degree in Physics. While studying at uni, I found that I really enjoyed teaching, and so I have completed a Diploma of Education and a Master of Education since then.

I have worked as a Science Teacher since the mid-1980s at both private schools and in the Catholic school system, and despite it being almost forty years, I still enjoy classroom teaching every day (maybe not in the last period on a Friday, though).

Currently, I work full-time as a Science teacher at a really great high school in the Hawkesbury region to the northwest of Sydney. I am learning the piano partly self-taught, and partly with a teacher from the Penrith Con.