Jessica Gale

Jessica Gale is a Pianist and Piano Teacher based in Surrey. She developed a passion for music at a much later age than usual, having not taken any formal piano lessons until the age of fifteen at secondary school. Jessica strived to reach her potential and completed all ABRSM Grades 1-8 with her teacher Julia Hartmann in just four years of attending piano lessons at Hindhead Music Centre, enabling her to follow her career path with her love of music into college and university. Jessica studied Music at the University of Surrey from 2010 and graduated with a BMus (Hons) in July 2013. She took part in performances while at university which were held at the Performing Arts Centre and Guildford Cathedral. In 2011 and 2012, she attended master classes with internationally acclaimed pianists James Lisney and Simon Nicholls at Hindhead Music Centre of which the first class focussed on works by Brahms and Liszt and the second class of works by Schubert and Poluenc. During Jessica’s final year at university she carried out a detailed study on Clara Schumann as a virtuoso female concert pianist in the nineteenth century with the supervision of Jeremey Barham. She also studied Baroque Fugue Analysis with Dimitris Exarchos which specifically focussed on keyboard music by J.S Bach. Since graduating from university, Jessica completed the ABRSM Diploma in Piano Performance in December 2014 and produced her first CD of the works which is now on sale and she also gained Grade 8 Music Theory last year. Jessica is continuing to work as a professional pianist and teacher, offering lessons in Piano and Music Theory whilst working towards the LRSM Diploma in Piano Performance. Jessica performs regularly and she was awarded with first place and a trophy for the Inter-Fesitval Piano Class at Basingstoke Music Festival in 2016. She also performs regularly with her duet partner Kay Turk and the duo were awarded with ‘Outstanding Honours’ for their performance at the Aldershot and Farnborough Music Festival in 2014.