Italian-born Viola Lenzi started studying piano at the Pietro Mascagni Conservatoire in Livorno, where she received a first-class Bachelor’s under the guidance of Monica Cecchi and a Master’s in Piano Performance with Maurizio Baglini.
Viola moved to London in 2018 to study at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in greenwich where she completed her Postgraduate Advanced Diploma with Sergio De Simone and martino Tirimo. during her studies she participated in many masterclasses given by prestigious musicians such as Micha Dacic, Daniel Rivera, Sergio De Simone, Jeffrey Swann, Pascal Rogé, Joaquín Achúcarro, martino Tirimo, cesare castagnoli, paolo cuccaro, Megumi Masaki, Stephan Loges, Ailish Tyinan
and Dr Emily Kilpatrick.
Viola took part in the New Lights Contemporary Festival, London Film Festival, won the Elizabeth Schumann Lieder Competition with the soprano Anna Marmion and was highly commended in the semi-final of the Soloist Competition at Trinity Laban for her performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor.
As passionate collaborative pianist, she has an active music duo with bass clarinetist Hannah Shilvock and a piano duo with Isabella Gori. Viola has worked as pianist at the livorno music Festival, as repetiteur of “All Aboard Opera!” company and she currently gives professional recitals in venues around the UK including Westminster Music Library, Poole Lighthouse, St George’s Bristol and Chichester Cathedral. 
“Making music is an intellectual, physical and emotional activity and the pupils need to be supported on all these levels in order to be confident in all aspects of piano playing such as technique, interpretation, general musicianship, aural, sight-reading and memorising.”
Viola is also a piano teacher with a deep interest in one to one piano teaching. She has been teaching young children in Italy for many years before moving to the UK and in London for the past six years, gaining experience in structuring and planning lessons, motivating her pupils and communicating ideas and concepts through a range of teaching strategies, methods and materials. She currently teaches private students, at Deansfield Primary school in eltham and for the becky dell music academy in blackheath and greenwich area.