Jim Atkinson - Piano Teacher

Jim is a brilliant, patient, funny, understanding and kind teacher. My son enjoys his piano lessons and as a great relationship with Jim.

An excellent piano teacher that helps you learn to play pieces that you like and have chosen as well as exam pieces. After 10 years of lessons i really love playing the piano and that’s thanks to Jim.

I am the Executive Headteacher of an inner-city Bradford school that has been working with Mr Atkinson for a year. Having recently observed a lesson I found that: throughout the lesson, the pupils were challenged to complete a range of different tasks, ranging from basic skills work (i.e. scales) through to performing longer pieces. At each stage of the lesson pupils were well supported and were encouraged to try and tackle any tricky aspects before being modelled by Mr Atkinson. This proce...

The lesson seems to just fly by as I grapple with the learning and Jim demonstrates, encourages, explains, praises and teaches. I don't want to be a concert pianist but I do want to learn to play. My goal is to learn for my own pleasure but to be good at it, and Jim has hit the right notes with that!

Not only does Jim have the patience of a saint, he strikes the perfect balance between formal and informal teaching. Far too many music teachers are focussed purely on Practising Hard to Get Grades with the result that playing piano gets to be a chore; Jim also teaches them how to have fun :) He's also an amazing blues pianist and all-round Decent Bloke.