Our Team
Musicians, qualified teachers and education specialists, based in London and working directly with families.
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Nathan Giorgetti
Director, Music Director
Nathan Giorgetti is a cellist and viola da gamba player specialising in early music. He studied with Jonathan Manson at the Royal Academy of Music as a Christopher Hogwood Scholar, and co-founded the viol duo Intesa: Chamber Music Fellows at the Academy in 2023–24, Tunnell Trust Awardees 2024–26 and City Music Foundation Artists 2025.
He has performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Hanover Band and the Early Opera Company, and is a core member of Bellot Ensemble, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble 2025–27. He teaches cello at the London Youth Conservatoire and founded the Vilalte Festival in southern France.
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Joseph Holderness
Academic Mentor — Mathematics & Critical Thinking
Joseph Holderness is a qualified teacher with a PGCE and QTS from Kingston University. He tutors 11+ and adult learners in mathematics, and has worked as a proofreader for writers using English as an additional language.
Before retraining in education he spent 24 years at J.P. Morgan, latterly as Chief Risk Officer for EMEA. He graduated from the University of Warwick in Economics and Politics, holds an Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management from EDHEC, and was a trustee of the United Nations International School in New York.
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Dr Zhihao Yan (Tim)
Director, Academic & Curriculum Adviser
Dr Yan holds a PhD in Philosophy from Sun Yat-sen University and spent more than ten years in primary and secondary education in China, including at Nan’ao Experimental School in Guangzhou and Shanghai Pinghe Bilingual School. He is the author of Doing Philosophy with Children (Sanlian Publishing) and has trained teachers in Philosophy for Children (P4C) since 2019, as a practice mentor at East China Normal University.
In the UK he completed a PGCE and holds Qualified Teacher Status. At Inchwise he leads curriculum research and the design of programmes that connect philosophical enquiry, nature-based learning and music.
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Dr Xiaoyun Peng (Sophia)
Founder and Director
Dr Peng holds a PhD in Philosophy from Sun Yat-sen University. She spent eight years in Chinese journalism, chiefly in opinion writing and editorial work, and from 2021 to 2024 taught philosophy, sociology and media theory at Xianda College of Economics and Humanities, Shanghai International Studies University.
She founded Inchwise in London in 2025. Her work centres on long-term musical development and applications to specialist music schools and conservatoires, alongside programmes that bring together music, philosophy and nature.