Baltimore Piano Academy

Baltimore Piano Academy is your Best Choice of the highest quality private piano lessons/instructions based on unique individualities of every student, and fundamental knowledge of professional piano playing. Elina Nostrant, the teacher and an owner of BPA, invites eager students of all ages and levels to come, and start learning piano, or to continue improve their skills with BPA.

Master of Music in Piano Performance, and Pedagogy / Baku State Conservatory, USSR, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR, 1988. Her students are 1st Prise Winners at Competitions, and have won Award Certificates through various Music organisations. Elina Nostrant provides the highest quality of private piano instruction to her students.

I started my music education by going to the Music School for Children in Baku, USSR where I studied piano, music theory, music history, ensemble, and chorus according to the Classical Style of music education. After graduating the Music School for Children and a Music College par excellence I was accepted to a prestigious State Conservatory in Baku, USSR where I earned a Masters of Music, sum cum laude, in Piano Performance and Pedagogy.

Lisa was about to give up the piano when one of our friends recommended Elina. She said you won't regret it.' After our first meeting with Elina Lisa's attitude towards music and piano lessons completely changed. She started to practice and could not wait until her next lesson. In a year she progressed tremendously and won an award at the National Piano Playing Auditions of the American College of Musicians.

This is your guide of tracing the roots of the art of the piano playing from Beethoven and Czerny through the great teachers, artists, and genius composers. You can see that only eight generations separates us from those giants. It is my great honor and privilege to share my performance and pedagogy experience with you and pass you the knowledge and method inherited from my teachers.

Hello, my name is Elina Nostrant. I am a professional pianist with over 25 years of teaching experience. I started my music education at age of five with my mother, talented pianist with Master Degree in Performance and Pedagogy and successful director of Music School. After spending ten years under her guidance I moved forward and completed my formal education studied four years in Music College and finally five years in prestigious State Conservatory, which I graduated with Master of Music in Piano, sum cum loude, in Performance and Pedagogy. I was fortunate to study with the best teachers, gifted and renown musicians. My working places included GITIS, D'Angelo school of Music of Mercyhurst College, Neighborhood Art House, various churches and my own private business. I am fiercely dedicated to music. It is my life, my love and my air. I enjoy teaching my students and honored to report that many of them regularly participate in variety recitals, audition, festivals, and are first prize winners of local competitions.Throughout the years I have been a member of various professional organisations including the Music Teachers National Association, Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association, American College of Musicians and Erie Music Teacher's Association.