Hi, my name is Courtney Shevchenko, and I am the Piano Practitioner.
I’ve always loved music. My music days stretch way back to when I was quite a young girl, just starting to learn to play music in a children’s bell choir, and singing all the time!
Years later, my parents placed me in piano lessons, and I had the opportunity to study under three different teachers over a 13-year timespan. I studied under two different church pianists, and a classically trained pianist who had studied at the Russian Piano Conservatory. After I stopped taking piano lessons, I began to develop my own unique style and method of playing and teaching piano. I now enjoy playing piano on my own and experimenting with improvisation, alongside beginning to teach my own children the fundamentals of music theory.
My interest in piano tuning started in 2010 when my family moved into a rather old house complete with an even older piano in the basement. We worked together to bring it out of the basement and up unto the main floor of our home, and with that, I began to fidget with this and that to fix various things that were broken. I repaired the damper pedal straight away, and we then proceeded to have a piano technician come out and look at it. He told us it would be quite a bit of money and a spare bedroom to fix the piano in its entirety, so it sat quietly awaiting a time to sing once more. I began to research a bit about piano repair but wasn’t sure if I would be able to figure out exactly what to do to fix it.
In October of 2015, I enrolled in piano technician school through the American School of Piano Tuning. I spent the next several months studying the ins and outs of piano tuning and repair, and following the completion of this certification, began the extensive process of beginning to repair the aforementioned piano in the living room.
I graduated in October of 2016 and have enjoyed professionally tuning and repairing pianos since that time. It has been such an incredible and fulfilling process, and I am very thankful for the Lord’s leading in this area of my life.
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