Lorraine Womack
Key details:
- Department:
- Junior Guildhall
- Role:
- Piano Teaching Staff
Biography & Pure profile
“Lorraine is a committed musician who has an acute sense to colours of sound. Her communicative personality comes through on every phrase at the piano.”
Noriko Ogawa, International Concert Pianist
Guildhall School alumni Lorraine is the granddaughter of a Professional Pianist and grew up surrounded by music, beginning formal piano lessons at a young age and knowing from the very first lesson that playing the piano was the only thing she really wanted to do.
Lorraine went on to achieve Diplomas in Performance and Teaching and to study with Pianists such as Graham Fitch, Noriko Ogawa, Artur Pizarro and Leslie Howard and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Performance Teaching from Guildhall School and a Coaching and Mentoring qualification from Guildhall School and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and has been mentoring & running courses for piano teachers for many years.
A regular faculty member on many piano courses including the International Piano Summer School at St Andrew’s University in Scotland, Lorraine also regularly runs her own piano courses and piano days, including The Considered Pianist Course which she runs with Junior Guildhall Colleague Lewis Kersterton.
Lorraine is a regular Adjudicator for Piano Festivals both nationally and internationally, and competitions including the annual Junior Clementi Competition and the Vaya International Music Festival.
As a solo performer Lorraine has performed extensively across the UK including a World Premier of S. G Pott’s Raymond Variations in London in 2015, and has appeared on television, radio and International Piano Magazine. Lorraine continues to perform regularly with upcoming recitals at venues and music societies across the UK.
Lorraine has been teaching piano at GSMD since 2014, initially a regular dep, joining the permanent staff in 2017, she also runs a busy private teaching practice in her studio in Bedford where she lives and is on the piano staff at Covent Garden’s City Lit where she also presents courses on managing performance anxiety.