Jean Auger-Crowe is attending for the first time 2012 as a guest pedagogy clinician from Calgary, Alberta. 

Jean has been teaching Advanced Theory and History in Calgary since 1979. As well as running a private studio, she has taught for the Mount Royal University Conservatory and Academy Program and has taught sessional courses in both Theory and Analysis at the University of Calgary. Jean has developed a model approach to the study of harmony –an approach which engages the whole musician, that is performer, listener and composer.

Jean has a degree in Theory and Composition from the University of Western Ontario where she studied with Canadian composer, Dr. Gerhard Wuensch.  It was with Dr. Wuensch that her philosophy of approaching the teaching of theory through composition began to take shape.

Jean also has a Master’s degree in Musicology from the University of Calgary (1985). Her thesis, Tonality and Elusiveness in Selected Mélodies by Gabriel Fauré focused on tonal structures and their integration with the other constituent elements.

Jean is putting the finishing touches on a Harmony textbook which presents her holistic approach to the teaching of Harmony.