Stuart Klinger's Teaching Page

06/20/2023

Wonderful final recital for the year!

Let's hear it for our GUITAR students - pictured here with faculty members Seth Himmelhoch and Stuart Klinger. (Not pictured: Jonathan Trotta).

05/13/2022

We’ve decided to open up the program for kids as young as 10. We always have before 🙂

This summer, learn how to write original songs using the same techniques as professionals. From June 27th to July 1st 2022 your child will be given an enormous opportunity to learn and work with professional songwriters. The program is called Songwriting with the Bandwriting Collective. The aim of this program is to develop your child's songwriting skills to a more professional level, Each child will write an original song that will be arranged and performed with a professional band. The program will culminate the following week with a performance at the Bitter End in NYC! The program will take place at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music.The hours of the program are 11:00 am to 5:00 pm with an hour for swimming from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm. For more information please contact [email protected] or https://www.jccotp.org/programs/summer-music-lessons-and-workshops/.

Summer is the perfect time to begin learning an instrument, continue studying one, or develop a new skill. At Thurnauer, we offer several summer workshops and private lessons.

05/05/2022

This summer, learn how to write original songs using the same techniques as professionals. From June 27th to July 1st 2022 your child will be given an enormous opportunity to learn and work with professional songwriters. The program is called Songwriting with the Bandwriting Collective. The aim of this program is to develop your child's songwriting skills to a more professional level, Each child will write an original song that will be arranged and performed with a professional band. The program will culminate the following week with a performance at the Bitter End in NYC! The program will take place at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music.The hours of the program are 11:00 am to 5:00 pm with an hour for swimming from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm. For more information please contact [email protected] or https://www.jccotp.org/programs/summer-music-lessons-and-workshops/.

Summer is the perfect time to begin learning an instrument, continue studying one, or develop a new skill. At Thurnauer, we offer several summer workshops and private lessons.

03/02/2022

We are excited to announce this new summer workshop, led by Stuart Klinger. Write original songs and perform at the famous Bitter End Night Club in NYC! Professional songwriters guide teens through the process of transforming ideas into fully realized pieces of music. Together, students and teachers arrange music for a full band, culminating with student performances at The Bitter End in New York City!

Read more at:
https://www.jccotp.org/programs/summer-music-lessons-and-workshops/

10/21/2021

We are happy to share that Stuart Klinger has joined the Thurnauer faculty. Stuart is teaching Music Appreciation to students from the IDEA School at the JCC. Read more about Stuart below.

Stuart Klinger studied Classical Guitar and Lute at Mannes College of Music with Albert Valdes Blaine, Frederic Hand, Patrick O’Brien, and Paul Echols where he was a member of The Mannes Camerata and The Mannes Jazz Ensemble. He received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College where he studied with Albert Valdes Blaine and Lanoe Davenport.

From many years of teaching experience, Stuart has developed a focused approach to teaching music that utilizes “artistic vision” and creativity as the spark that inspires young people to become self-motivated. Stuart has also completed teacher training for Unit One in the Suzuki Guitar program.

In 2012 Stuart created a songwriting and recording program called Bandwriting Collective. A staff of six professional songwriters and musicians taught students to write and record music with a band. The students were taken into professional recording studios with a Grammy Award winning producer and taught how to make records from song ideas. The students performed at major venues in New York City and have had the tracks played on WFMU.
Stuart is an ASCAP writer with song placements in major movies and television shows.

He is currently producing a four-volume set of albums for Brian MacWilliams entitled Songs for Ghosts. It is the second album project for this artist. The first album, Being Here, is available on Vinyl, Apple Music and Spotify.

In 1990, he was a member of the alternative band, The Rake’s Progress, which recorded for Almo/Geffen Records. The Rake’s Progress was featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brian, MTV’s 120 Minutes, and Beavis and Butthead. The band was also featured on the cover of Billboard magazine.

At the present time, Stuart performs as a solo artist and plays with his own Jazz Trio. He appears in many shows in the New York area with acts such as F*Bomb (A tribute to the Rolling Stones), The Fred Norris Band, The Music of Traffic, 30 Years of Shadows and Light (A tribute to Joni Mitchell), Ones and Zeros (A tribute to Radiohead) and many others.

He is very excited to join this great faculty.