Many students dream of becoming performers, but because it is so highly competitive, that world can be brutal and disheartening.
Many students dream of becoming performers, but because it is so highly competitive, that world can be brutal and disheartening.
Mirian Conti is part of the faculty of the Evening Division of The Juilliard School in New York City.
Frederic Chiu is an Assistant Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Andrea McAlister is an Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio, the Director of Digital Content for the Frances Clark Center and the Senior Editor of Piano Magazine.
World-renowned composer and pianist Phillip Keveren is the co-author of the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library.
At The University of Texas at San Antonio, Dr. Stan Renard is an assistant professor of Music Marketing; assistant director of the Center for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE); and the director of the Arts Incubation Research Lab.
Pamela Pike is the Herndon Spillman Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Louisiana State University and the editor-in-chief and chief content director for Piano Magazine.
Serona Elton is a professor and director of the Music Business and Entertainment Industries Program at University of Miami Frost School of Music. She is also the Head of Educational Partnerships at The Mechanical Licensing Collective.
Dr. Jeffrey Nytch is the director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Dr. David Cutler is a distinguished professor of music and director of music entrepreneurship at the University of South Carolina.
Omar Thomas is an assistant professor of composition at The University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music. He is helping educators rethink the way that they can build non-exclusionary curricula.
Yamaha Master Educator Jeffrey Grogan is professor of music and director of orchestral activities at Oklahoma City University. He is also artistic director and conductor of the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras.
Dr. Travis J. Cross is a Yamaha Master Educator and the Chair of Music, Professor of Conducting, Director of Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Marcia Neel is senior director of education for Yamaha Corporation of America and a Yamaha Master Educator.
Cheryl Floyd has been the director of bands at Hill Country Middle School in Austin, Texas, for over 25 years.
Daniel Berard is the assistant director of bands at Wakeland High School in Frisco, Texas. Prior to this, he served as the director of bands at Grain Valley High School in Missouri and Fossil Ridge High School in Colorado.
Marcia Neel is senior director of education for Yamaha Corporation of America. She is president of Music Education Consultants Inc., and serves as the education advisor to the Music Achievement Council.
As part of her True North approach to instructing, Dr. Emily Threinen sees opportunities to abandon the stick.
Douglas Droste is director of orchestras and associate professor of music at Ball State University in Indiana.