Meet the Teachers

Thiago Trinsi is an Artist, Producer, Composer, Orchestrator, and Music & Technology Specialist with a Master Degree in Orchestration for Films, Games, TV and more than 20 years of experience teaching electric guitar in Brazil, USA, Iceland and Sweden. His activities also include touring abroad with guitar clinics, master classes, lectures and works like online teaching since 2007.

Author of “10 Guitar Studies to Boost Your Alternate Picking Technique”, a video lesson package, Thiago is a multi-award winner guitarist placed within the top 3 best of talent revelation in the world of the international guitar competition.

In 2020 he got the title as the Teacher of the Year from one of the most prominent online educational institutions in New York, and this had repercussions even in the Swedish media.
His music projects collaboration extend across the continents with artists, producers and companies from Brazil, USA, Uk, Canada, Australia, Italy, France and Greece, to name a few.

Coming from Brazil, which is well known for its rich and diverse music culture, his steps of education also includes a prestigious Berklee College of Music – USA and Chichester University – UK.

Mauricio Weimar is a multi-instrumentalist with 25 years teaching and performing experience. His speciality is Heavy Rock drumming but he also plays and teaches electric guitar, bass, violin and African marimbas. An University degree in Music Teaching, lessons with great violin teachers and a vast history in bands and orchestras makes him a quite versatile and well-rounded professional. He started teaching in Brazil, then in 2009 moved to Iceland where he also became Headmaster of Music Department.

Since 2015 he is based in Norway as a very active and successful full-time music teacher. Every year he takes his students to the top of the main festivals and contests.

Mauricio took part in several heavy metal bands, such as Nephasth, The Ordher and Distraught to name a few, having albums distributed worldwide with a pretty solid fan base within the extreme music scene. He masters everything related to fast metal drumming techniques such as “blastbeats”, double-bass” and “finger control”.

Throughout the years, Mauricio has developed a consistent teaching method, focused more on practise than theory.

All of that is carefully translated in a great deal of original material. His experience with classical music gave him the ability to create a whole new approach to study and perform rock music. Besides, Mauricio also masters the technology related to virtual drumming, recording and sharing music/video on the internet.

​Born in Brazil, Felipe Vargas Magdaleno is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, where he teaches Beginner Classroom Guitar and Applied Classical Guitar and Jazz Guitar for majors and non-majors. He has previously worked as a full-time Lecturer in Guitar at the University of Passo Fundo. He has performed widely in guitar series, seminars and festivals in Brazil, such as the University of Passo Fundo Guitar Festival and Antonio Crivellaro International Guitar Seminar, and several venues in the United States.

Felipe Vargas Magdaleno holds a Master’s Degree in Performance from the University of Arizona, where he studied with Thomas Patterson, and guest artists David Russell, Sergio Assad and Odair Assad. Awarded in international guitar competitions, such as the XXXII Norman Douglas Sholin Memorial Guitar Competition, he has also performed in several masterclasses for world-class guitarists, such as Leo Brouwer, Fábio Zanon, Eduardo Isaac, Paul Galbraith, Jorge Caballero, Judicael Perroy, Vladimir Gorbach, Marcin Dylla, among others.

Recently, he has been working on his debut album, Latin American Music for Guitar, with works by Assad, Guinga, Siqueira, Piazzolla and Ginastera, and the world premiere of Quatro Fragmentos de Tempo, for Guitar and Electronics, dedicated to Felipe Vargas Magdaleno, by Marcus Siqueira. Currently, he is completing his DMA in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Kentucky, under the guidance of Dr. Dieter Hennings. In his dissertation research, Felipe Vargas Magdaleno explores the interconnections between electronic music and the contemporary classical guitar in Quatro Fragmentos de Tempo, a work dedicated to him by the Brazilian composer Marcus Siqueira.

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“Why do I play the piano? It is my quest for beauty. Music has the mysterious power to transform everything into beauty. No matter whether it grows out of happiness or sorrow, anger or enthusiasm, despair or love – expressed in a sublime manner, all becomes beauty.” “As a teacher, one of my main concerns is to optimally prepare my pupils so they can appreciate the great treasures of our world’s musical legacy, guided by the maxims of the humanistic tradition: the Good, the True and the Beautiful.” The Nuremberg-born pianist Andreas König has already been prizewinner of numerous competitions such as the most important german music competition “Jugend musiziert”, the Steinway Piano Competition Berlin and the International Piano Competition Porto, before beginning his studies at music universities. He appeared early on with renowned orchestras such as the Berliner and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. From 2002 he studied with the focus on Artistic Education with Prof. Erich Appel at the Music University Würzburg (main subject piano), in 2006 he continued his training at the University for Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt with Prof. Lev Natochenny, which he completed there in 2009 with the diploma examination. He continued his training in Madrid, with Prof. Ralf Gothóni and Prof. Eldar Nebolsin, as well as numerous master classes (among others with Ferenc Rados, Menahem Pressler and Bruno Canino), during a two-year postgraduate course at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia. During this time he also worked closely with the wind chamber music department of Hansjörg Schellenberger. In addition to his international concert activities as a concert soloist, he is active as a piano lecturer. Andreas König was a scholarship holder of the prestigious Scholarship Foundation of the German People and the Albéniz Foundation, Spain. He is also a winner of the Vienna da Motta International Piano Competition, Lisbon. During his trajectory he performed with international orchestras such as the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon. Numerous performances throughout Spain have brought him together with a wide variety of chamber music ensembles (e.g. with the Trio Köchel at the Auditorio Nacional Madrid, the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, Santander, and many others) He has given countless solo recitals in concert halls, castles and private cultural foundations in Germany, England, Switzerland and Spain. For Bavarian Broadcasting he recorded the 24 etudes Op.10 and 25 by Frédéric Chopin. He appeared as the protagonist in the film “El desorden de la belleza” by the Spanish director Fernando B. Fidalgo.

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Jan-Erik worked as a music teacher at the Cultural School in Funäsdalen,
Sweden and also in several cities in the United States, where
he taught: cello, double bass at an advanced level and violin, guitar,
electric bass, for beginner and intermediate level. Is also
specialized in the Suzuki method for children.

Regarding his professional career as a musician, he played in several
Orchestras around the world as in the Chamber Orchestra (Chamber
Orchestra of the Springs), Colorado Springs, Colorado, United
United, Principal Double Bass in Drury Orchestra, Springfield, Missouri.
Contrabass in the Symphony Orchestra, Springfield, MO. Cello in Central
Wisconsin Synphony Orchestra Stevens Point etc. In Europe it was
Double Bass for Chamber Music under Maestro Siegfried Neumann
in Sweden, Double bass in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra,
Double bass at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Sweden.