Music Lessons Directory

Name: Stephen Weiss
Email: swguitar@videotron.ca
Website: http://pages.videotron.com/swguitar
Location: Montreal QC

Areas of Study Offered:
• Students of all ages and levels welcome!
• Classical, fingerstyle and popular genres of solo guitar music
• Preparation for Royal Conservatory of Music exmaminations
• Ear skills for improvisaiton
• Music theory and history
• Masterclasses, chamber music settings and competition preparation offered

Musical Education/Teaching Experience: Stephen has been teaching and performing since obtaining his Bachelor of Music in Music Education Degree from the University of Saskatchewan Music Department in 1997. His teaching experience includes the public school system, The Conservatory at Mount Royal University (Calgary AB), masterclasses, festival adjudications and chamber music coaching. Currently, he teaches weekly lessons at his home studio to students studying classical, fingerstyle and popular guitar music. Past private studio locations have been in Saskatoon SK, Lloydminster AB, Calgary AB, and now Dollard-des-Ormeaux, in the West Island of Montreal QC. The teaching studio space welcomes people of all ages and levels to learn, rehearse, express, record and grow both musically and aesthetically.

Teaching Philosophy: Similar to oral traditions in “non-western European” cultures, we learn best when we internalize by truly hearing music in a way that aesthetically moves and tranforms us. In order to do this when playing an instrument, we have to overcome various oddities involved with holding, gripping and maneuvering (within) the instrument. I believe this is best done with carefully chosen supplementary studies and excercises, none of which overtake the musical importance of the pieces being studied, but which facilitate in reaching the goal of comfortable artistic expression sooner than later. We strive, through some repetition and hard work, to be able to play beautiful music as soon as possible (please contact for a full discussion of this philosophy in detail – thank you kindly).

Additional Info: Please contact by telephone or email for rates