Pascal Monti
- Graduate Steinway Concert Academy Technician programme 2004
- Steinway technician programme 2001
- Cert. Piano Pedagogy, Berne 1996
- Eidg. Dip. Klavierbauer, Switzerland 1992
- Piano Disc technician
- S.V.K.S Switzerland
- A.R.P.T. (Australasian Registered Piano Technician)
Pascal Monti began his four-year apprenticeship in 1988 at a renowned piano restoration and servicing business in Berne, Switzerland. After acquiring his diploma as a piano tuner and technician, he studied music for three years at the conservatorium in Berne.
In 1996 he moved to New Zealand and began working at Jenkin Piano Service, where he is now a partner. A skilled practitioner, Pascal is sought after by private customers, tunes for concert venues around Auckland and carries out restoration, rebuilding and repair work.
In 2001 he attended the Steinway technician training programme in Hamburg and is now one of the two certified Steinway trained technicians in New Zealand. Pascal has a strong involvement with the New Zealand Piano Tuners’ and Technicians’ Guild and has recently been involved in designing and organising an apprenticeship scheme for current and future apprentices. He has run practical classes and lectures at local workshops and at national and international piano tuners conventions.
Pascal is a keen skier, swimmer, traveller and theatre-goer, and an enthusiastic amateur thespian.