Vovka Ashkenazy · Pura, Ticino

Go deeper into the music.

Private piano study with Vovka Ashkenazy in Pura, Ticino. Personal guidance for advanced pianists, young musicians and adults beginning or returning to the piano.

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Individual lessons · CHF 100 / 60 minutes

Vovka Ashkenazy beside a grand piano and tall leaded windows

The music comes first

First imagine the sound.
Then find the way.

What do you want the music to say? Vovka’s teaching begins with that question — with listening, meaning and the sound you want to create.

From there, the work becomes practical: finding a natural, efficient way to bring that musical idea to life at the piano.

Discover the approach

Your own path at the piano

Personal study. Musical possibility.

Advanced study

Explore repertoire, interpretation and technical challenges — with your musical intentions at the centre.

Young musicians

Thoughtful personal guidance for children and young pianists, in conversation with their parents or guardians.

Beginning or returning

Make a first start, or find your way back to the piano, with a patient approach shaped around you.

Vovka Ashkenazy teaching beside a pianist at a grand piano

Individual attention, at the piano.

Black-and-white portrait of Vovka Ashkenazy beside a piano; photograph by Moressa — Photograph: Moressa

A life in music

Meet Vovka Ashkenazy.

An international concert pianist, and a teacher whose focus is the individual musician in front of him.

Vovka studied with Sulamita Aronovsky at the Royal Northern College of Music. His 1983 London debut at the Barbican, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Richard Hickox, began an international concert career.

About Vovka

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