A professional musician with a lifelong passion for helping students understand how music really works.
Meet the tutor
Hello, I’m Andrew Durban.
As a student at the Royal College of Music, my first professional engagement was performing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Roger Norrington and the London Classical Players — a groundbreaking concert later recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
That experience set me on a twenty-year journey performing Baroque, Classical, and Romantic repertoire with some of the world’s leading period-instrument ensembles. Over a career spanning four decades, I’ve taken part in hundreds of concerts and around fifty commercial recordings with orchestras such as the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Alongside performing, I’ve always loved helping students understand the structure and beauty of music. Having once struggled with theory myself, I know how important it is to make it clear, logical, and enjoyable.
Today, through Grade5TheoryTutor.com, I combine my performing career with specialist online teaching, helping students not only to succeed in the ABRSM Grade 5 Music Theory examination — the essential gateway to higher ABRSM practical exams — but also to develop a deeper understanding of the musical principles that underpin the music they play and hear.
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Let’s talk about your goals
If you’d like to explore whether my approach to Grade 5 Theory tuition is the right fit, I’d be very happy to meet online for a short, free consultation. It’s simply a chance for us to talk, ask questions, and discuss what you or your child would like to achieve — with no obligation to commit.