Steve Teers
A juvenile 63, Steve Teers has had a colourful life, a rich tapestry of experience that has led him on a journey across 3 continents, from grammar school in Coventry to the cosmopolitan metropolis that is Cluj-Napoca. Steve met a plethora of characters along the way, from David Bowie to the late Queen, Mongolian throat singers, Algerian camel racers, various lords and ladies and Hillary Clinton.
Steve is a multi-instrumentalist musician, a film maker, documentary editor, projectionist and contemporary dancer. After gaining a Bachelor of Humanities degree in Music and Dance, his early career took him from keyboard player in indie bands and contemporary dance class piano accompanist, to work as a runner on big budget late 80s music videos, working with Spandau Ballet, Black Sabbath and Mick Jagger.
After establishing and teaching camera and editing techniques at a community video project in West London, Steve spent 20 years running a TV and video production company at Ealing Studios, embarking on multiple international filming assignments before establishing a reputation as a top flight documentary editor for British TV. Subjects covered have included history, crime, nightmare neighbours, the Royal family and Jennifer Lopez.
At the same time, Steve toured Europe and Africa as live vision mixer and projectionist with world music band Praying for the Rain, and was invited to film experimental contemporary dance in Bucharest in 2000.
Steve married Romanian hairstylist-to-the-stars Georgiana in 2006 and together they bought the village house in Băla, Mureș, where Georgiana's grandmother was born.
After the arrival of two daughters, Steve and Georgiana relocated to Romania in 2019 and set up La Poiata Retreat in Băla, where they hold the annual music and craft festival, BălaFest.
Steve recently rediscovered his interest in contemporary dance and has started giving 'Movement Beyond Borders' classes incorporating qi-gong, 5 Rhythms and butoh, as well as teaching piano improvisation and jetting back to London for occasional gigs on trombone and percussion with covers bands the Moonbakers or the Strayhorns.
In Romania Steve divides his time between Băla and a townhouse in Cluj.
He appears with his wife in the first episode of the latest series of Flavours of Romania on Netflix.
A keen and sympathetic listener, Steve is looking forward to enlightened conversation, learning and sharing tales and thoughts with students young and old.