Eight weeks with Adelaida Pérez-Costa for nine pianists. Stage rehearsals in a 740-seat hall. A closing recital before an invited audience. A career, on the other side, that does not begin in a practice room.
A 3-hour 04-minute coaching block on building four return-points into your programme — by harmonic anchor, by tactile cue, by inner voice, by phrase end.
Lessons
6
Duration
3h 04m
Live
Sat 14:00 GMT
Cohort 6 · finished100%
11 minutes free
Cohort 7
9
pianists · 3 seats remaining
Curtain
Sep 14
Saturdays · 8 weeks
Cohorts have included pianists from
10 of 47 conservatoires
Royal Academy of MusicJuilliardCurtis InstituteParis ConservatoireNorthwind InstituteMercury AcademyFoundry 47 SchoolPlover LyceumSibelius AcademyMannes SchoolRoyal Academy of MusicJuilliardCurtis InstituteParis ConservatoireNorthwind InstituteMercury AcademyFoundry 47 SchoolPlover LyceumSibelius AcademyMannes School
Four movements · eight weeks
The programme for Cohort 7.
Each movement closes with a stage-shaped task. The fourth is the closing recital itself, played in concert dress before an invited audience of 120.
Movement IWeek 02
Walking on Stage Without Apologising
The 24 seconds between the wing and the bench are louder than your first phrase. We rehearse them as music — gait, gaze, the lift of the wrist before the first chord.
You play to a wall at home and to a 740-seat hall on Friday. Adelaida coaches the projection, the pedal, and the small things that vanish past row twelve.
7 lessons · 3h 20m
Movement IIIWeek 06
Memory, Nerves, and the Slip You Recover From
Every concert pianist memorises four ways back into the score. We build all four for the piece you are presenting at the closing recital.
6 lessons · 3h 04m
Movement IVWeek 08
The Closing Recital
An invited audience of 120. Each student plays one programme of 18 to 24 minutes. Adelaida sits in the third row and writes nothing down until the bow.
Audience
120
Programme length
18–24m
Encores
at will
What graduates went on to play
Three debuts, three cohorts.
I
Maja Nilsen — Cohort 4 — Wigmore Hall debut, October 2025
A 24-minute Schubert and Schoenberg programme. Maja drew her first paid concert booking from the closing recital and walked the same programme onto the Wigmore stage four months later.
II
Rafael Romero — Cohort 2 — Mercury Symphony soloist, 2026
Engaged as Brahms 2 soloist for the Mercury Symphony's spring tour. Rafael cites the second stage rehearsal as the moment the concerto stopped sounding like a recording in his head.
III
Hiroshi Tanaka — Cohort 5 — Foundry 47 Recital Series
Three-recital residency at Foundry 47, programmed entirely by Hiroshi. The closing recital programme was kept verbatim for the first night.
The programme vs going alone
You can prepare a recital alone. Most pianists never play it.
Capability
This programme
Going it alone
Two coached stage rehearsals in a 740-seat hall
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Weekly 60-minute private lesson with Adelaida
Included
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Page-turn and pedal coach for closing recital
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Programme notes and bio reviewed by press team
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Booked into a paid concert within 12 months
61%of cohort
8%of solo pianists
From three cohorts
Adelaida heard, on the second week, that I was breathing in the wrong place in the Schubert. I have been playing it for nine years and no one had told me. The closing recital was the first time I understood what the piece was about.
Maja Nilsen
Cohort 4 — debut at Wigmore Hall, October 2025
324
Pianists coached
47
Lessons across 8 weeks
94.6%
Closing recital attendance
6
Cohorts staged
Cohort 7 — September 14, 2026
9 pianists · 3 seats remaining
Three ways to enrol
Tuition for Cohort 7. No tier holds back the stage.