Neta Anne Maughan (born August 1938) is an Australian piano teacher. Her teaching career has spanned 63 years (2019) and in that time she has taught thousands of students in her main discipline of the piano, vocal, theory and accompaniment training. Some of her pupils include

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, Bernadette Harvey, Neal Peres da Costa,

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, Anthony Fogg, Damian Whitelley, Emily Jeffrey, Stephen Delaney, Kathryn Lambert, her own daughter Tamara Anna Cislowska, and the late

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, Marilyn Meier and Dennis Rees.

Early life

Maughan was born in Hendra, Brisbane, grew up in Sydney's western suburbs and attended

St Vincent's College, Potts Point , motto_translation = Religion and Knowledge united , established = , type = Independent single-sex secondary day and boarding school , gender = Girls , denomination = Roman Catholic , reli ...

after her parents moved from Kyogle. She comes from a long line of pianists and piano teachers - five generations of her family have been either performers or educators or both. Maughan started teaching music when she was 17 years old. She enrolled in a diploma of music at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (now the

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), however was forced to withdraw in her final year due to deaths in her immediate family. She later continued her studies and studied voice under Elizabeth Todd and piano under

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Career

Maughan taught piano, voice and music theory at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music for 35 years. She was appointed on salary at Newcastle Conservatorium in 1968, where she taught piano and lectured to the diploma class (DSCM). She also received the Australian Music Examinations Board award for excellence in teaching on at least 27 occasions. She also taught private students at her home, and was an Examiner for the AMEB for 45 years. In 2010, Maughan was appointed a

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for services to music education as a piano, voice and music theory teacher and as a guide to young musicians.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maughan, Neta Living people 1938 births Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni Sydney Conservatorium of Music faculty Members of the Order of Australia Piano pedagogues Australian music educators