Our Story
Ten years on the same road.
A music school on Manakkakkadav Road in Thengode, Kakkanad, teaching guitar, violin, piano and keyboard to children and adults for over a decade.
Small batches by design.
Key Style started with a small number of students and one instrument. It has grown into a multi-instrument academy teaching students worldwide online — but the way classes run has not changed. Batches are still strictly small, ensuring every student gets corrected in every class.
In a large batch, a student can hold an instrument wrong for six months until it becomes a habit. We prevent that from day one.
Performance First
A lot of teaching is organised around exercises and grades, producing students who freeze when asked to play. We work backwards: students learn by working towards playing a piece well enough to perform it.
More than music.
You cannot perform a piece if you cannot keep time or your posture falls apart. The performance sets the standard, and technique follows because it has to. A child who learns to stand up and perform learns confidence that transfers well beyond music.
Principal Instructor
Kuriakose P V
Kuriakose sir is a professional working guitarist. He performs regularly, and he has been teaching in Kakkanad for more than ten years. Both halves of that matter: a teacher who has stopped playing eventually teaches from memory, and it shows.
He teaches from a syllabus he wrote himself. It came out of frustration — available books assumed students practiced an hour a day and knew notation. Most beginners in Kakkanad needed a different route, so he wrote one.
"I stopped trying to fit students to the book and started writing down what actually worked. Ten years later that is the syllabus. It is still changing."
Alongside instruments, he teaches theory, ear training, improvisation, composition, and keyboard programming. A student interested in making their own music has somewhere to go without ever leaving the academy.
Come and meet him first.
The trial class is free, and there is nothing to commit to afterwards. Bring your child, let them play something, and decide.