Clarkson Piano: What Makes Us Different?

Uncompromising, life-long love and passion for piano, music and teaching is what is behind our Clarkson PianoWe are Your Piano Team!

Every moment of every day, we count our blessings to have been given the gift of music by our parents and for receiving the comprehensive formal training from incredible, passionate educators who lived for and loved what they do: teaching music and sharing the joy of music with generations of students. Their passion for music, love, and care, which we were blessed to experience, live with us forever and inspire us to pass our very best on to you, our students, and their families! Join us and share the magic life-long journey of music-making! 

This year marks 30 years of teaching piano in Canada or 30 years of pure fun and joy!
We adore music and piano and are so very proud of our students, past and present!

We live and love piano and music. 

We Proudly combine the Finest European and Canadian Music professional training with extensive Canadian teaching and Canadian and International performing experience!

We specialize in teaching beginners and nourishing a lifelong friendship with music – We Welcome You to our Clarkson Piano!

Clarkson Piano – Your Piano Team: What Makes Us Different?

1) Our passion and love for music and piano. Generations-long!

Clarkson Piano continues the tradition of the “Hrovat Piano Studio”, established in Clarkson Village, Mississauga, shortly after Boris and their young family immigrated to Canada in January 1994.

Graduate of one of former Yugoslavia’s most reputable State Conservatory of Music, in a class of incredible Professor Angelina Pap, with a years-long performing, teaching and recording professional music career, Boris’ Canadian Music Studio was a natural progression of his already rich musical journey. 

However, the real roots of “Ontario’s Premier Piano Studio,” as our families named us, are in a deep passion for piano and music.

A passion that has dominated our families for generations. 

Boris “grew up with music” with his grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins… teaching, performing, adjudicating, recording, and most importantly, having a memorable, fine family time around a piano.

It is no coincidence that Boris’s wife, Vesna, a graduate of the very same University, shares the love and passion for music and is a beloved piano teacher, Principal Instructor and Education Coordinator. Boris and Vesna are so proud of their students and past decades of friendship and relations only piano and music can build. 

Today, they are as enthusiastic as ever and excited to have evolved into this comfortable, homey, yet incredibly satisfying educational setting and format – that offers a positive, supportive, inspiring learning environment and a welcoming, pleasant, helpful, progress-focused, enjoyable piano teaching environment.

**Image on the left was taken next to Glen Gould’s grand piano, Roy Thomspon Hall 

A long list of advanced pianists, teachers, recording and stage artists;  venues, educational and other institutions acquired advice and guidance from us: 

A life-long relationship with the piano, deep personal investment and interest, over thirty-five years of teaching and live performing on different acoustic pianos, digital pianos, and keyboards, enviable Piano Industry training and contacts contributed to a unique and in-depth understanding of various instruments’ responsiveness, durability, versatility, tonal colour, projection, balance, touch and overall performance potential. To delight his colleagues, clients and, most importantly, Clarkson Piano Students and their families.

**The image on the left shows Boris with his beloved mentor, Industry Icon Mr. Hanry Z. Steinwy, at Steinway Hall, New York City, October 1995 

Our Studio proudly features the concert/recording quality Steinway Concert Grand Piano Model B

Our friendship and first-hand experience with the finest instruments never stop:

Vesna and Boris at sensational Fazioli Piano’s World HQ in Sacile, Italy, July 2019

Pictured (above) with Legendary Paolo Fazioli and his son Luca, Director of Operations Fazioli Concert Hall Stage

2) Our Teaching Approach:

We are proud of our customized, personalized teaching program that boosts self-confidence and self-esteem while teaching music more rationally and meaningfully.

We explain and clarify the music’s universal concept, which is common throughout the styles. We introduce the building blocks of music – melody, harmony and rhythm in a considerate and age-appropriate way. 

We passionately and tirelessly promote the beauty and fun of music-making as a gift for a lifetime.

We always think of the incredible musical and non-musical benefits of studying music – in our positive and friendly environment of patience, encouragement, support and motivation.

3) Our Teaching Program:

Our main teaching program is a World-Class Royal Conservatory of Music Program – Internationally recognized as a standard of music education excellence.

We recommend and teach the Royal Conservatory of Music Program and have successfully prepared students for all levels of RCM Examinations since 1994! 

We also like playing, teaching popular music, and exploring different styles with our students. 

The Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music program is a true hallmark of quality music education, recognized coast-to-coast in Canada, the US and internationally. This World-Class, World-Recognized Program offers high-school credits, tax and RESP benefits (please inquire with your accounting professional).

We invite you to take part in preparing and completing a music examination with the Royal Conservatory of Music Examinations. Students who use the Royal Conservatory of Music curriculum follow a well-balanced course of study that has been internationally recognized for more than one hundred years.

The Royal Conservatory of Music curriculum is one of the best-designed and most comprehensive programs, incorporating ALL essentials to develop skilled musicianship. 

Behind the RCM curriculum is over a century of experience, generations of students and teams of the finest educators constantly searching for THE BEST in the musical educational field.

Most of all, the World-Class RCM program is a well-structured, comprehensive teaching program that successfully balances the values of traditional music instruction with the expanded needs of 21st-century students.

Join us and the RCM Program at Clarkson Piano – We are Your Piano Team!

4)Our Location/Studio Setting:

From our previous, carefully selected Studio Locations on Lakeshore Rd in Port Credit and Clarkson, it was our goal and dream to provide our students not just with the best possible guidance, program, and teaching format but also the most comfortable, relaxing, stress-free, enjoyable Studio setting.

Our spacious Studio contrasts the “typical business format (i.e. small boxed room),” the Clarkson Piano experience starts even before entering the teaching area: we are situated in a ravine, facing charming Turtle Glenn Park.

Visit us and experience the lush nature surrounding our beloved Clarkson Piano Studio. 

5) Our Educational Background and European Heritage

Every moment of every day, we count our blessings to have been given the gift of music by our parents and for receiving the comprehensive formal training from incredible, passionate educators who lived for and loved what they do: teaching music and sharing the joy of music with generations of students. 

Their passion for music, love, and care, which we were blessed to experience, live with us forever and inspire us to pass our very best on to you, our students, and their families!  The image above is taken while visiting our beloved professor, incredible Angelina Pap, at her Studio at the Conservatory. (2002)

Amazing educators, adjudicators, inspiring recording and concert artists, music producers, and composers who provided guidance and remained lifelong inspirations deserve much more than a brief introduction here. More content dedicated to our mentors, our experiences, and our background will be posted under About us and Join us – here is why! Visit us again soon – Thank You!