Our History

Since 1998, we have been shaping the future of music and piano education by combining performance, teaching, and technology with the support of exceptional partners.

On 18 August 2025, PianoClass celebrates 27 years of making music and art!
We are very glad to share a little bit of our history with you.

Even before launching PianoClass, we studied and researched extensively in pedagogy, methodology, teaching, learning, and we already had a decade of experience on stages and in classrooms.

PianoClass was born in Pelotas – RS, Brazil, promoting lectures and masterclasses due to the partnership of pianists committed to high-level music-making, willing to offer qualification courses in our city.

To make art, one must live!

Therefore, we organized, participated in, and traveled with our students to masterclasses, lectures, concerts, festivals, courses, and contests, and we also launched the first online music portal in the country, which included a digital magazine and a discussion forum.

New timbres (singers, flutists, guitarists, conductors …) have been at PianoClass for courses, lectures, interviews, articles, and lessons. Always focusing on the piano, today we also have a composer with us who offers courses on different areas related to musical creation, develops projects aiming at pianistic learning through didactic compositions, and is available for arrangements and brand-new compositions on varied formations and styles.

We’ve traveled a great deal and showed our art through Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, Santa Maria, Pelotas, Rio Grande, … ), Turkey (Istanbul), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), and Japan (Suzu-shi). In addition, we have taught students from Brazil, the United States, Portugal, France, and Lebanon.

Continuing our studies on learning and making use of new technologies, we designed a unique learning system so our students could learn faster, more completely, and sooner become more independent on their musical journey.

Technology allowed us to break time and space barriers, so we became 100% online. Now we are much closer to our students, who enjoy the personalized lessons, can contact us at any time, and have a safer, more efficient practice, beyond taking part in masterclasses, guided concerts, and many other events from the comfort of their homes.

Today, PianoClass is based in Europe and is developing new studying, performing, and musical producing plans to enrich even more the knowledge and experiences offered to our students.

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Our Partners

Together with our partners, we create opportunities that inspire and support musical journeys, offering resources, discounts, and collaborations.

tomplay

tomplay offers free access to PianoClass teachers and a 30% discount for our students and visitors to subscribe via PianoClass link + code PIANOCLASS30.

Flat.io

Flat.io offers a 15% discount for our students and visitors when subscribing via the P ianoClass link.

Baerenreiter

Baerenreiter offers digital sheet music for our respective 4-hands recorded courses.

tonebase

tonebase opened their content to our students in lessons and exclusive events.
Our students and visitors get a 30% discount to subscribe via the PianoClass link + PIANOCLASS30 coupon code.

Henle Library

Henle offers Bach’s 2-part Inventions digital sheet music along with our respective courses.

iClassical-Academy

iClassical offers a 10% discount to our students and visitors to subscribe via the PianoClass link + PIANOCLASS10 code.

epta

PianoClass offers a 10% discount for all EPTA members and their families on their first learning plan with us.
Claim your discount by contacting us before enroling.

Mensa Brasil

PianoClass offers a 10% discount for all Mensa members and their families on their first learning plan with us.
Claim your discount by contacting us before enroling.

Triple Nine

PianoClass offers a 10% discount for all Triple Nine members and their families on their first learning plan with us.
Claim your discount by contacting us before enroling.

Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado

PianoClass offers a 10% discount for all IRN workers and their families on their first learning plan with us.
Claim your discount by contacting us before enroling.

Projects & Events

Discover the highlights of our journey, where past and present projects come together—active ventures lead the way, showcasing what drives us forward.

Special Activities

Exclusive events enriching PianoClass’s legacy in music education

Lectures Library

Rich lessons, full of essential knowledge and skills, and recorded exclusively for our students to learn and revise at any moment.

Music Forum

Live meetings to discuss and debate musical topics with our piano, music creation, guest artists, all saved in our Music Forum Library.

Masterclasses

Open lessons with a different pianist to take your music to the next level of maturity and art, all saved in our Masterclasses Library.

Guided Concerts

WatchParty of selected top Online Concerts, masterclasses, and Lectures with extra learning material and an exclusive chat room for teachers and students.

Living Art

The main artistic events attended by our teachers with related media to keep us all on the same page.

PianoClass Soirée

Live meeting to share our music and have an amazing artistic moment together.

Technical Rehearsal

Live meetings to help our students setting up their devices for optimal lessons, recordings, and using all resources we offer them. Group events are saved in our Technical Rehearsal Library.

PianoClass in Concert

Where we present our students’ best performances.
This is the only Special Activity open to our audience.
Almost 30 editions by now

Lesson extensions

Features exclusive to our students

Follow-up

Live meetings to discuss and debate musical topics with our piano, music creation and guests artists.

Office Hours

Weekly extra time to meet our teachers, clarify specific topics, and make long-term plans.

Recorded Courses

The beginning of a long-term project

WaitingLiszt

A selection of video lessons and Special Activities for those waiting for an opening at PianoClass start learning right away.

PianoClass for Kids

A recorded course designed for 3-9 years old and their families to learn how to play the piano together.

Bach, 2-part Invention n.10

A complete course that all-level students can learn from and continue developing their musical artistry.

Lectures & Publications

PianoClass participating in outside events

Piano Practice and Teaching on the XXI Century

Fernanda Machado taught the Piano Pedagogy for Adults module in this postgradute’s 1st edition (2021), along with an outstanding team of professors.

VII Piracicaba International Piano Festival

The first online edition invited the pianist Fernanda Machado to:
# present a seminar on “PianoClass – history and innovation”
# take part on the round table discussion “Teaching Virtually: finding opportunity in the adversity”
# teach two PianoCamps for children
(2020)

Online Teaching

Fernanda Machado was invited by Tonara App to present a Webinar to guide piano teachers into the online live/recorded teaching new world (2020).

Educador Musical

Educador Musical, a magazine focused on music teachers and teachers-to-be, published an interview with PianoClass pianist and mentor Fernanda Machado in their 3ª edição edition – August/September, 2019.

PianoClass on Paper

Since 2018, PianoClass on Paper has showcased the musical and literary work developed at PianoClass through contextualised, educational, and artistic editions.

Concerts & MasterClasses

PianoClass participating in outside events

Triple Nine Society EEG, Amsterdam

Lecture on Music Interpretation and piano recital.
Fernanda Machado and Julio Machado
2014

State Conservatory, Istambul

Concert and masterclass at the State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Duo PianoClass – Fernanda Machado and Julio Machado
Organised by Prof. Ozgur Tuncer
2012

I Encontro sobre Pedagogia do Piano (UFSM), Santa Maria

Julio Machado and Fernanda Machado
– Concert (Debussy, Poulenc, and Schubert)
– Masterclass
– Lecture (Profession and surviving)
at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.
Organised by Prof. Claudia Deltregia
2012

Suzu-shi

Concert
Fernanda Machado
2009

Our history is rich with events and milestones, and we’ll continue updating this page gradually.