Donna Stoering as Teaching Artist....
When she was ten or eleven, Donna says, neighborhood families began asking if they could pay her to give music lessons to their children, and she has been teaching piano, voice, and music composition lessons ever since.
When she was twelve, the choral music conductor at a Bay Area middle school went on maternity leave and the school hired Donna to take her place, conducting the choirs - she has been conducting choirs internationally, and teaching choral conducting and singing, ever since.
At age 17 she was made Head of the Piano Department at a large, bustling music school in California, where she taught 30 students per week, as well as some voice and composition students, while performing solos and piano concerti on nationwide tours.
Just after completing her B.A. and M.A. degrees in music and sociology at age 19, though, Donna's approach to both performing and teaching experienced a major shift of direction when she met (and began studying with) pianist Mary Sauer, longtime Principal Keyboardist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Ms Sauer was in the process of developing what Donna now calls a "full-body" or "Playing from the Core" approach to the interpretation, musical phrasing and technical aspects of playing the piano. So when Donna next received a Marshall Scholarship from the British Government and moved to England (and later to Europe) she was excited to begin sharing this innovative approach as far and wide as possible.
Ms Stoering has now given master-classes in performance, interpretation and technique to teachers and students at music conservatories in Russia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Latvia, India, Estonia, Republic of Georgia, England, Wales, Turkmenistan, and throughout the USA. She has served as an international judge or adjudicator for competitions, festivals and juries, in Russia, Canada, UK, India, Hong Kong, and America.
She has taught privately in Italy, Croatia, both northern and southern England and on both coasts of America; has been Artist in Residence, Head Piano Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at universities in the USA and England; taught for two years at University of York (UK), and served for several years as Artist in Residence to Oxford University (St Edmund Hall).
Many of her students have won national and international competitions and several have gone on to launch new music schools in various countries.
Repeatedly hailed by students and faculty colleagues alike as "a born teacher", Donna now loves coaching emerging performers, advanced pianists and vocalists of all levels/styles worldwide (online), continuing to share this evolving "full-body/playing from the core" approach between her performance and production activities.
When she was twelve, the choral music conductor at a Bay Area middle school went on maternity leave and the school hired Donna to take her place, conducting the choirs - she has been conducting choirs internationally, and teaching choral conducting and singing, ever since.
At age 17 she was made Head of the Piano Department at a large, bustling music school in California, where she taught 30 students per week, as well as some voice and composition students, while performing solos and piano concerti on nationwide tours.
Just after completing her B.A. and M.A. degrees in music and sociology at age 19, though, Donna's approach to both performing and teaching experienced a major shift of direction when she met (and began studying with) pianist Mary Sauer, longtime Principal Keyboardist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Ms Sauer was in the process of developing what Donna now calls a "full-body" or "Playing from the Core" approach to the interpretation, musical phrasing and technical aspects of playing the piano. So when Donna next received a Marshall Scholarship from the British Government and moved to England (and later to Europe) she was excited to begin sharing this innovative approach as far and wide as possible.
Ms Stoering has now given master-classes in performance, interpretation and technique to teachers and students at music conservatories in Russia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Latvia, India, Estonia, Republic of Georgia, England, Wales, Turkmenistan, and throughout the USA. She has served as an international judge or adjudicator for competitions, festivals and juries, in Russia, Canada, UK, India, Hong Kong, and America.
She has taught privately in Italy, Croatia, both northern and southern England and on both coasts of America; has been Artist in Residence, Head Piano Teacher and Chamber Music Coach at universities in the USA and England; taught for two years at University of York (UK), and served for several years as Artist in Residence to Oxford University (St Edmund Hall).
Many of her students have won national and international competitions and several have gone on to launch new music schools in various countries.
Repeatedly hailed by students and faculty colleagues alike as "a born teacher", Donna now loves coaching emerging performers, advanced pianists and vocalists of all levels/styles worldwide (online), continuing to share this evolving "full-body/playing from the core" approach between her performance and production activities.