Stellar Music Space

At Stellar Music Space (SMS), founder and principal teacher Samantha Bassler (and her assistants) provide(s) nurturing and creative music lessons that are geared to the students' individual goals and needs.

SMS provides private and small group instruction in piano, voice, guitar, and violin, classes in general music theory, music history, and aural skills, as well as summer music camps. Students from the program have gone on to pursue further study in music as performers and scholars at LaGuardia School of the Performing Arts, Columbia University, the University of Oxford, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, New York University, Queens University (Toronto), Westminster Choir College, Rutgers University, the Navy College, and other prestigious schools in the US and abroad.

Samantha Bassler, the principal teacher and founder of SMS, is a versatile musician, educator, and academic, who began teaching private and small-group music lessons in 2000. Samantha teaches lessons out of her Fort Greene, Brooklyn studio, as well as in-home lessons, and online lessons via Skype or FaceTime or Google Hangout.

Samantha has a bachelor's degree in piano from Nyack College, a master's degree in musicology from the University of Oxford (UK), a second master's degree in musicology from Rutgers University, and a PhD in musicology from the Open University (UK). Samantha also teaches music history and music theory at the university level, currently at NYU, Rutgers at Newark, and Molloy College, and is an editor and collaborator on the #DiversityinClassicalMusic syllabus project. Samantha's academic interests are wide-ranging, but focus mostly on intertextuality, disability, gender, and music, especially in early-modern England.

At Stellar Music Space, you or your child will receive an education that is enriched by the teacher's experience educating students of all ages and levels, and also enriched by her academic experience as a scholar.