Who I am

I'm Stephanie Gough, and Auralis Conservatory is mine.

I've been teaching music for four years, ages five to adult, up to forty students at once. I've also spent a lot of that time covering for conductors right before performances, which teaches you to read a room of students very fast.

What I kept seeing was the same handful of gaps, in every school, on every instrument, under teachers who were genuinely good at their jobs. None of the gaps were technical.

Nobody had taught these kids how to practise deliberately. Nobody had taught them to own their environment, or what to do when their hands shake, or why they were doing any of it.

And I did try. I'd touch on it when there was a gap, a couple of minutes here and there. But thirty minutes doesn't give you depth, and it really doesn't give you consistency. So it never held. It would land one week and be gone by the next, and I'd be back to the piece, because there was a parent outside expecting to hear progress.

I started testing these protocols properly with a small group of students at the beginning of this year. The version that survived is the one that needed nothing from the teacher.

That's the entire reason Auralis exists. Not because tutors are getting this wrong. Because there's no room in a thirty-minute lesson to get it right.