Introduction: Having served the Parker and Highlands Ranch, Colorado and surrounding communities for the past 30 years, High Range Piano, Inc. is excited to announce it's new home in the Cary, North Carolina area. High Range Piano will continue to offer a comprehensive program of piano instruction for students ages 7-99 and for all levels of studies, from beginner through advanced. We welcome both children and adult beginners with no previous music training!
Lessons include a combination of music theory, technique, repertoire, and music history. As well, students are invited to attend studio performance classes and an annual studio recital and will have the opportunity to participate in both non-competitive and competitive events offered through the North Carolina State Music Teachers Association, the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and other events made available through the local school music programs.
Dr. Stephen Fiess, a native of Stratford, Ontario, Canada, holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Music degree in piano performance from Indiana University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance, pedagogy, and literature from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
He also holds an associate diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto and associate certification in organ from the American Guild of Organists.
His interest in the piano music of Prokofiev led to a book on this subject, The Piano Works of Serge Prokofiev, published in 1994 by Scarecrow Press. Dr. Fiess was a prize winner in the Ernst Krenek Division of the 1989 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition.
Dr. Fiess has composed ballets that have been performed in Colorado and a ballet that was performed at the International Dance Festival of Havana, Cuba. He has composed several published piano solos and duets. He has also written several published sacred compositions.
Dr. Fiess is actively involved in church music, and teaches piano privately in the Cary, North Carolina area (a suburb of Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina).
Mr. Neal Wegener, a native of Denver, Colorado, holds a Bachelor of Sacred Music degree from Phillips University, as well as additional studies at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, the University of Colorado, and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
Mr. Wegener has served as Director of Music at churches in New Jersey, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Mr. Wegener has also served as a Vice- President of the Colorado State Music Teachers Association, Vice- President of the Colorado chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and as Convocation Chair for the Denver Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Dr. Fiess and Mr. Wegener are both Nationally Certified by Music Teachers National Association and the National Guild of Piano Teachers.
Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you!
