Dartmouth - Theory Lessons

Sonja Maurer-Dass (Piano, Theory)

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Teaching Day(s): Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Dr. Sonja Maurer-Dass is a Canadian pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist, and music educator with eighteen years of teaching experience. She holds a PhD in music (musicology) from The University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) and a master’s degree in musicology specializing in harpsichord performance and late medieval English music from York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). She studied piano with Ronald Turini, one of the few direct students of the legendary Vladimir Horowitz, and harpsichord with Charlotte Nediger of the world-renowned Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.

As a performer, Sonja has appeared in concerts in Toronto, England, Austria, Italy, and Spain, and most recently performed harpsichord at the Château de Saconay near Lyon, France. While she loves performing, teaching is her passion and she enjoys instructing students of all ages and helping them develop strong musical foundations, creativity, and confidence at the keyboard.

Sonja has taught Baroque music history at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) and led undergraduate tutorials in musicology and music theory at The University of Western Ontario. In addition to her academic teaching, she currently designs and teaches courses on medieval music history for the popular international history website Medievalists.net, where she shares her expertise with both scholarly and public audiences.

As a music scholar, her research and writing have appeared in The Medieval Magazine (London, England), Ancient History Magazine (Zutphen, Netherlands), Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Australia), and Medievalists.net (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). She also has a forthcoming publication on medieval music in the volume Medieval Music and Performance – Verum et Pulchrum Series, to be published by the University of Lleida Press in Lleida, Spain.
Sonja is $30 per half hour lesson.

Steffan George-Wegner (Piano, Theory, Harmony)

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Teaching Day(s): Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Steffan has a Bachelor of Music from UBC in piano performance, an ARCT from the Royal Conservatory, and is a graduate of Trinity College of Music in London, England. He has performed and accompanied other musicians across Canada. Stefan has been teaching music since 1979 and gives workshops on piano pedagogy. His rate for a half-hour private lesson is $30.