Professor
Alongside his work as a practising musician and conductor, Maurice Steger also serves as a lecturer. The teaching of technical instrumental and musical knowledge, working with young people and the implementation of musical ideas are a special source of inspiration for Maurice Steger.
He regularly conducts masterclasses with promising young recorder players, whether at festivals or annual events. A fixture on Steger’s calendar is the Summer Course in Arosa for enthusiastic music lovers and the public lessons at the Bad Kissingen Recorder Festival. Guest professorships and workshops also take Steger periodically to universities and conservatoires around the world, including Taipei, Sydney, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, London, Colorado, New York, Ankara, Montreal and Salzburg. Together with Jeremias Schwarzer, Maurice Steger founded the International Recorder Forum in 2011, which brings together young professionals every January.
Steger founded the Schaffhausen Recorder Days and led them for over 10 years; he also worked for many years at the Solothurn Academy of Music and served as director and professor of the Gstaad Baroque Academy from 2012 to 2025 in collaboration with the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy, where he has the wonderful opportunity to work intensively with a selection of the world’s finest recorder players, challenging and nurturing these young musicians and guiding them on their path to the future. In his role as professor, Steger also cultivates instrumental mastery on the recorder and invites prominent fellow lecturers each year (Goebel, Perl, Rondeau, Rousset, Lutz, Podger, Antonini, Bezuidenhout, Frey, Postinghel, Caminiti, Langlois de Swarte, Taylor, Oberlinger, Schwarzer, Siranossian, de Donatis, Moretto, Schayegh) to develop as broad a musical perspective as possible. Many of Steger’s students have been attending for many years and are now among the most prominent performers of the younger generation. Fortunately, the class also boasts many international prize-winners who continually set new standards.
The Gstaad Baroque Academy will take a break in 2026 whilst Steger devotes himself to his two other academy projects: The Junior Baroque Academy for young people aged 12–18 and the Ascona Baroque Academy for professional young musicians of the highest calibre.
Maurice Steger is a professor at the Nuremberg University of Music and gives several lectures each year on the performance practice of early music, as well as teaching recorder. He is a co-founder of the International Recorder Forum and the new Recorder Connect course.
Maurice Steger’s comprehensive educational project, “Tino Flautino – musical stories for children”, is also very dear to his heart. Instilling a love of music in very young listeners is another important task for the artist. Initially launched as a product of Switzerland – where Tino Flautino is a national children’s hero – countless children around the world have meanwhile been able to enjoy Tino’s exciting stories. The latest episode, “Tino Flautino and Leo Leonardo the Tomcat”, has already appeared in six languages; Steger’s other projects in the sphere of child and youth education are Pinocchio and the Recorder Player and Le fou des flutes.
Steger has published some magazines and books (MOECK, Accanthus, Tre Fontane, Lehrmittelverlag) for young musicians, with a particular focus on the recorder.
Maurice Steger is a frequent jury member for some of the world’s most prestigious competitions (SRP/MOECK Solo Recorder Competition London, Berlin International Music Competition, Zen-On Japan, Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, Montreal, SJMW, Hsin-Chu, EUROVISION Young Musicians) and scholarship recitals.