Stefan - Teacher #4608

Instruments:
- Baritone-Euphonium
- French Horn
- Piano
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Voice

Services:
- Dictation
- Ear Training
- Music Appreciation
- Music History
- Music Theory (Advanced)
- Music Theory (Beginner-Intermediate)
- Orff
- RCM - Advanced Rudiments
- RCM - Basic Harmony
- RCM - Basic Rudiments
- RCM - History
- RCM - Intermediate Rudiments
- Solfege

Languages:
- English

Teaching Philosophy

Music education offers an opportunity to explore oneself through creative expression while teaching important life values of discipline, intentionality, and innovative thinking. While having a knowledgeable and experienced technical teacher is important, I believe my students have just as much to learn from themselves as they do from me. Music offers invaluable opportunities to work collaboratively with others, listen to others, and create a collective experience greater than the sum of its parts. Music education gives students a vehicle and a language to engage in topics that are nuanced and complex, and the opportunity to gain confidence to engage with topics that are emotionally and intellectually challenging.

Musical Education

I have a conjoint degree BMus (Hons) in music performance & musicology from Memorial Univerisity of Newfoundland and a BMusEd degree from Memorial University. During my undergraduate degrees, I studied Euphonium performance under Dr. Karen Bulmer, and performed in numerous ensembles and solo recitals. Additionally, I have completed most of an MEd degree in Counselling Psychology. I am currently a PhD student studying clinical psychology at Fielding Graduate University where I'm researching music and performance-based psychological intervention strategies.
I have studied piano privately from the age of four until twenty, and have received extensive specialized training in brass pedagogy including trumpet, trombone, french horn, euphonium and tuba.

Awards and Distinctions

Some of my in music and education include the Dean's list for all of my undergraduate studies, the Carl Morrissey Bursary Scholarship in music, the Prue & David Wright Award at MUN, the Carla Furlong Bursary in music, as well as the Paul Roberts Memorial Music Award for Commitment and Leadership in Ensemble Programs, and the Rotary Music Festival Honour Award

Special Skills and Training

As a teacher and researcher adn clinician in psychology, I offer students a specialized experience grounded in a holistic wellness perspective. I focus on the affective experience of education and nurture music education's immense creative and growth potential to harness those forces productively in my students' lives. While our lessons are strictly focused on music education, I encourage my students to make meaningful connections between our studies and their wider life experiences.

Rates

30 Minutes: $39.00
45 Minutes: $49.00
60 Minutes: $59.00

There is a one-time registration fee of 25 $ charged with the first lessons. All Taxes are included in prices, if applicable

NOTE: Your Credit card will be charged ONLY when the first lesson is set up and confirmed with the teacher

Policies


1. Cancellation Policy

Lessons not cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice are billable to the client and payable to the teacher. This does not of course apply to travel fees unless the notice is effectively given at the door and the teacher has travelled to the location.

2. Cessation (quitting) Policy

A client must provide a 2 lesson notice period to stop lessons. So a weekly student needs to give 2 weeks of notice, a biweekly student works out to 3 weeks notice and a twice weekly student works out to a week of notice.

3. Illness Policy

Lessons cancelled due to illness or extraordinary circumstances with less than 24 hours notice remain billable to the client and payable to the teacher.

BAH teachers are encouraged to offer a make-up lesson at a future date in the interest of client relations and general goodwill. This only makes sense as teaching a student with the flu for example, will ruin the rest of your week's employment.

No more than 2 lessons may be made up due to illness within a 60 day period.

4. Rescheduling Policy

Any lesson can be cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice.

Summer Vacation and Extended Absence Policy

Clients may schedule longer absences for trips etc. 24 hours notice is required.

It is normal and typical for students and about 20% of our teachers to schedule a break in the summer. We do not enforce a notice period (see cessation of lessons) at the end of a long summer break.

5. Evaluation Period

There are no free trial lessons with Beethoven at Home but we do offer a 2 lesson evaluation period where it is easy to try out a teacher. There are no free lessons during the evaluation period and clients may choose to discontinue the lessons at any time by providing the required 24 hours notice. After the student's 3rd lesson the required 2 lesson notice period will apply (see cessation of lessons above).

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