ABOUT ME
MARIANNE SICE
Marianne Sice (b.1995) is a musician and artist from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Beginning her performance career while studying at The King’s School, Tynemouth and at Sage Gateshead’s Centre for Advanced Training, Marianne went on to read music at The University of Edinburgh (Diploma in Music) and then at Newcastle University (Bachelors of Music with Honours) in which she specialised in performance gaining a first in her final year major piano recital, and most recently graduated from an MA in Creative Arts Practice at Culture Lab, Newcastle University (2021).
Having learned piano under the expert tutelage of Robert Parker Jeffrey, Nicholas Ashton and David Murray (as well as receiving expert training in other performing arts fields including theatre, dance and performance art) Marianne aspires to bring the wealth of knowledge and skills she has acquired from her own training into her teaching, work and practice.
She has performed in a wide range of venues and contexts (as well as genres) as a soloist, part of bands/ensembles & shows across the North East of England and Scotland with past performances taking place in Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Durham Lumiere Festival, Edinburgh Competition Festival, Great Exhibition of the North, Greyfriars Kirk Concert Series among many others and over the last few years has also accompanied student recitals, exams and performances during her time University.
TEACHING
As a creative artist as well as musician, Marianne enjoys combining techniques used in music and visual art (as well as practices used in community music and music therapy) to give a person-centred and highly creative approach and twist to her teaching.
As an artist with syneasthesia and a kinaesthetic learner (i.e. learning by doing) herself, her teaching methods are very interactive and hands on, using colour as a means to identify notes and note names, lego in order to build chords and create compositions and musical games (both devising her own and drawing from the syllabi of eg. Wunderkeys) to make her lessons fun, while ensuring that her students learn and grasp an understanding of the practical and theoretical elements at work in the music they are playing.
n her teaching Marianne enjoys applying a person-centred creative approach in which the lessons revolve around the pupil’s needs and desires, while simultaneously learning the theory behind it all and applying this directly to their playing and understanding.
Marianne holds a DIPABRSM and is happy to teach pupils to work towards Grades and/or towards their own personal goals.
