Please contact NOTUS Music Notation if you are interested in private piano lessons with one of the teachers: info@notus.world

• ANTWERP (B) • 2950 Kapellen – Daniel Valkenborgh

Daniel is a NOTUS piano teacher at Ma’Go Antwerp. Daniel grew up in a musical family and began piano lessons from the age of 5. He received his first lessons from his parents and later from pianists Samra Mackic and Suzy Nijs. He took several master classes with Irene Russo and later with Eliane Rodrigues. After studying Human Sciences, Daniel began higher music studies at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (KCA) in the class of Eliane Rodrigues where he obtained his Master Piano in 2019 and the Specific Teacher Training in 2020. Daniel has a great love for chamber music and especially the classical works of Schubert and Beethoven. Since 2015, Daniel has taken several master classes with Polina Leschenko and Sergej Edelmann, among others. He studied harpsichord with Korneel Bernolet at the Kon. Conservatorium Antwerpen starting in 2019, where he graduated in 2022. Daniel also received instruction in harpsichord and organ with Ben Van Nespen and a year of pianoforte with Piet Kuijken. Spring 2021 Daniel took a follow-up course in harpsichord at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Daniel teaches in Dutch and English.

• ANTWERP (B) • 2018 Antwerp – Jun den Oudsten

Jun den Oudsten studied horn, piano and hafabra conducting at the Conservatories of Amsterdam and Antwerp. He is an experienced musician and permanent conductor of two wind orchestras.
Because of his experience as a conductor, he quickly understands individual learning processes. It is second nature to him to empathically adapt to the student’s level in order to direct and guide the learning process from there. This makes the student feel particularly well heard and supported. Jun is also very adept at explaining musical and technical material simply and understandably.
He believes that everyone is musical, regardless of the nature of technical qualities a person has acquired, and that everyone is capable of making high-quality music with the resources they possess. As a result, he will gladly help and encourage the student towards finding and working out ways in which he/she can express himself/herself maximally aesthetically and technically.
Together with the student and NOTUS, Jun unlocks the piano to the point that it provokes goosebumps in the student and the listener.
Jun teaches in Dutch and English.

• BRUSSELS (B) 1200 Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
– Daniel Madero

The 38-year-old Franco-Mexican pianist/composer Daniel Madero began his studies in composition and piano at the age of 12 as a private student and later studied as a professional violinist at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico, where he was first violinist in that institution’s Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra, as well as in the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Mexico.
Daniel describes himself as a versatile artist who is not limited to one art form. He plays several instruments, including piano and accordion. Active in disciplines such as composition, arranging, orchestration, conducting and music production, he is at home in several musical genres.
During his more than fifteen-year career, he has taken courses and master classes in composition with leading composers such as: Krzysztof Penderecki (†), Mario Lavista (†), Nicolas Bacri; a chamber music workshop with Arón Bitrán (II violin Latin American Quartet) and in opera repertoire with Enrique Jaso (†). He was also a pianist for classical and contemporary dance and has collaborated as a pianist with international voices such as tenor Rolando Villazón and soprano Rebeca Olvera.
He performed in some of the most important venues and festivals in Mexico and has worked with renowned artists and directors in recording, stage and musical productions as producer, performer, musical director, arranger and composer. With soprano Anne-Sophie Sevens, he currently forms a vocal-piano musical duo.
Daniel teaches NOTUS piano and Stradella Bass accordion lessons in English, French and Spanish.

• BRUSSELS (B) – Anne-Sophie Sevens

Anne-Sophie is a Belgian soprano. She has been playing the piano since she was 7 years old. She graduated with great distinction from the Kunstbrug music academy (Ghentbrugge) with an interpretation of Debussy’s Clair de lune. Her private NOTUS piano lessons take place in Brussels.
She studied singing at Luca School of Arts in Leuven (Lemmens Institute), as well as at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Anne-Sophie finished her practicum at the Swiss Opera Studio in Biel in 2017. She has received several scholarships, such as the scholarship to participate in the Opernwerkstatt (year 2018) with concerts in Sigriswil, Zurich, Basel and Bern. The Richard Wagner Verband Vienna gave her a grant in 2019 to visit the Bayreuther Festspiele.
Anne-Sophie has given various recitals, including in Belgium. There she sang, among others, the ‘Wesendonck’ song cycle by Wagner and ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen’ by Mahler. In 2022-2023 Anne-Sophie sang, Gerhilde at the Landestheater Coburg; this production directed by Alexander Müller was revived in fall 2023. She currently forms a musical duo with the pianist Daniel Madero, and Richard Wagner’s ‘Wesendonck-Lieder’ are central to the repertoire.
She also likes to share her passion for the piano. She has always loved to give piano lessons to students of all ages. She is enthusiastic about less classical learning methods, such as the use of the new NOTUS music notation. She believes in intuitive teaching where learning technique is accompanied by stimulating musicality. Anne-Sophie teaches in Dutch, French, German and Italian and is available from school year 2024-’25

• MECHELEN (B) – Sabine Roosen

Sabine is a piano teacher and composer. She teaches at two music schools and has 30 years of experience in adult education. Sabine has been a guiding fellow NOTUS researcher from the very beginning in the NOTUS Music Pedagogical Research at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. In this way she gained 2.5 years of NOTUS experience. She is particularly charmed by the qualitative quick results of NOTUS, which elicit a high level of enthusiasm and satisfaction in the adults.
Availability: on request.

• OUDENAARDE (B) – Marieke Tinel

Marieke graduated in 2016 as Master of Music Theory at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and in 2017 also as Teacher of Music. In 2019 she obtained her diploma in Creative Therapy, option Music Therapy at the Artevelde college. In addition to her job as a music therapist within the GGZ (Mental Health Care – Flandres), she also has 10 years of teaching experience in various private music schools and part-time Art Education. She works independently within Narrante (narrante.be) where she offers music therapy and customized music. She teaches piano and guitar lessons, music culture, solfège and creative workshops. She loves to guide children, adolescents or adults in their musical learning process at their own pace and also introduce them to a more intuitive and creative form of music making, tailored to their needs and desires. She therefore believes in less classical methods such as NOTUS that ensure that music notation need not be an obstacle to being able to express yourself musically quite quickly. Because of her background in music therapy, she also sees possibilities to use NOTUS with people who have a strong desire to learn to play music, but at the same time struggle with a disability, learning problems or psychological vulnerability.