In a bid to diversify her music teaching practice, pianist Charlotte Way has brought one-to-one lessons to busy office workers
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Perhaps there's no better illustration of music's restorative power than that given by Einstein's wife, Elsa, who described how ‘whenever he became weary in the midst of his work he went to the piano or picked up his violin and rested his mind with music’.

Having taught the piano mainly to youngsters for many years, I had the opportunity five years ago to expand into workplace teaching. This came about because a private piano student of mine mentioned that his company, Man Group plc, had some keen pianists among its executives and had installed a piano in the office for when they wanted to take a break.

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