Music Teachers' Association
of New South Wales

Katia Pronin

Katia Pronin (Piano and singing teacher)

BMus(Hons) MMus(Performance)

• 20 years of teaching experience of all levels of musicians, including tertiary students.
• Accelerated method in teaching children from 5 years old.
• Preparation for successful AMEB, ABRSM, Trinity College London examinations, and scholarships (2021-2023 AMEB board member)
• Wide experience in tutoring for concerts and auditions.
• Up-to-date working with children check
• Accompanying String, Wind, Brass, Vocal, Choral, opera repetiteur (current Member of Guild of Accompanists of NSW)

• Concert pianist, Piano teacher, and mentor
• Singing (classical), singing, Opera Coaching
• Vocal technique, vocal coaching, voice
• Adult piano
• Aural training, theory, rhythm, sight-reading.
• Performance skills and coaching

BIOGRAPHY

Katia Pronin was born in St. Petersburg, where she obtained her DipMus with High Distinction and BMus from St. Petersburg Rimskiy-Korsak of Conservatory of Music, where she studied piano and voice.

After her arrival in Australia in 2006, she won a Fellowship in the Australian Ballet Company, where she worked as a pianist for one year. Since then, she has been employed as an accompanist in the dance department at Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne).

As a well-established artist, Katia has also performed many concerts throughout Australia.

She has been featured as a principal soprano in some of the most iconic roles of operatic repertoire. Her impressive list of credits includes Violetta (La Traviata), Tosca (Tosca), Carmen (Carmen), and Mimi (la Boheme).

Since 2007, Katia has organised her Private Studio, where she prepares her students for auditions, exams, and concerts. Her students have received the highest marks in the exams and Eisteddfod competitions.

Katia is the founder and director of the Pronin Performing Arts Company and Pronin Performing Arts Studio and has been an AMEB board member as a private teacher representative since 2022.

Pronin Performing Arts Studio has been selected as one of the most popular kids' activities in Pennant Hills, Cherrybrook, Paramatta, North Rocks, Bella Vista, and Dural.

Katia is also a piano and voice tutor at Redfield College and Hills Adventist College.

Katia enjoys teaching students of all ages for concerts, exams or leisure.

Mobile: 0423 708 937

Email: e_dpronin@yahoo.com.au

Instruments: Accompaniment, Accompanist, Keyboards, Musicianship, Piano, Theory of Music, Singing (classical), Singing Opera coaching, Also some categories like Opera, vocal technique, vocal coaching, voice, adult piano, aural training, theory, performance skills/coaching, rhythm, sight-reading.

Zeljko Bedic OAM

Examiner 50

ASA TDip, MOAA, MMTA, MASME, MISME, MUMT, MAATA, MASA

Zeljko Bedic OAM commenced piano and violin studies in Croatia, Europe and subsequently continued with his professional music studies in Sydney, Australia on piano, pedagogy and music theory under the baton of Dr Margaret Brandman, and on accordion, with Maestro Dante Simonelli and Mr Ross Lombardo.

Mr Bedic was included on the Australia Day 2019 Honours List and presented with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for distinguished services to humanity in Australian and global communities and the performing arts, particularly through music.

He is a university academic (successfully prepared students for their Bachelor of Music Degrees and AMEB Performance Diplomas), and a Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Music Teachers’ Association (NSW) accredited professional music teacher in piano, accordion and theory.

Mr Bedic is the founder, and has been the Owner / Director, of Bedic Music Studio, now Paddington Music Studio for over 35 years. He has over 40 years of professional teaching experience and has been an AMEB Examiner for over 30 years. He was awarded his Teacher’s Diploma in 1983 and received his AMEB Examiner 25 Year Service Award Shield in 2016.

He has successfully prepared and trained numerous music teachers to become AMEB examiners and has written, reviewed and edited AMEB syllabi for many years. Most recently, he led and collaborated with other examiners, on a comprehensive and extensive syllabus review / rewrite which was successfully submitted to the AMEB for publishing.

Mr Bedic has delivered solo and duet performances at the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and at the Sydney Town Hall. He is a former first prize recipient of the ASA NSW state championships and the City of Sydney Eisteddfod. He was also a former recipient of the second and third prizes in the ASA Australasian Championships. Mr Bedic has adjudicated at international, national and state championships, and the City of Sydney and St. George Eisteddfods on many occasions.

His students have won International, Australasian, Australian National and NSW State Solo Championships. One of his students was selected by the NSW Board of Studies to perform at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, HSC ENCORE Concert. Another one of his students has won the prestigious Music Teachers’ Association (MTA) – Margaret Chalmers Memorial Scholarship and received an invitation to perform as a soloist at the MTA’s Centenary Celebration at Parliament House in Sydney in 2012.

He was the Musical Director and Orchestra Leader of the Koleda and Dubrovnik Croatian folkloric ensembles and the Musical Director of the Klapa Koleda a capella ensemble and choir. Mr Bedic recorded an album at the Sydney Opera House in the capacity of Musical Director / Orchestra Leader with the Koleda ensemble and a studio album with the Dante Simonelli Orchestra and Choir at EMI Studios.

Mr Bedic was the Australian National Coordinator, promoter, manager and publicist for two highly successful charity recordings / CDs, ‘Side by Side – Song for Port Arthur’ and ‘Stop the War in Croatia’. Both were highly successfully on the Coca Cola ARIA Charts (10 weeks in the Top 10), with extensive national television, radio and print media coverage, and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity, but more importantly, provided moral support for the victims’ families. At the time, he received letters of commendation and support from the Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon. Mr. John Howard MP and Premier of NSW, The Hon. Mr. Bob Carr MP and numerous prominent senators.