Our Team

Olena Voronina is a German and English teacher at Montessori Center. She graduated from Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy with a degree in Romance and Germanic Philology. She is proficient in German and English and has been teaching since 2020. Olena provides individual lessons for children and adults. She tailors each learning programme to the student’s goals, pace, and needs. Her lessons combine a communicative approach, task-based learning, and the structured presentation and practice of new material. She uses textbooks and workbooks, texts and extracts from books, audiobooks, podcasts, films, and TV series. She places particular emphasis on developing speaking skills, listening comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary. Olena aims to create a friendly and supportive atmosphere in which students feel confident speaking and asking questions while making steady progress.

Kateryna Tesliuk is a violin teacher at Montessori Center. She studied at the M. V. Lysenko Poltava Professional College of Arts and is currently continuing her education at the Pavlo Chubynsky Academy of Arts. She has taught children since 2022, combining her teaching career with active performance work. Since 2025, she has been an orchestra musician with the Honoured Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Kateryna has won prizes at international and Ukrainian national competitions. In her lessons, Kateryna creates a supportive environment where students can develop with confidence, learn from mistakes, and recognise their own progress. She pays particular attention to correct playing posture and instrument positioning, ear training, technical skills, and musical expression. Kateryna selects repertoire according to each student’s level and interests, combining structured work with encouragement and genuine engagement in the learning process. “It is important to me that learning the violin brings not only good results, but also joy in the process itself and in every achievement, large or small.”