Richard Becker
is head
of piano studies at the University of Richmond. He is active as a recitalist, composer, chamber musician, and poet,
and his playing has been acclaimed in Europe and America. Performing on many college campuses over the years, and frequently touring the eastern United States, he has also performed at venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the National Gallery of Art, the French Embassy, the Library of Congress, and at the Hudson River, Kemper, Virginia, and Spencer Museums. He has performed at the Salle Cortot and Salle Michelet in Paris where he has six times been artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts.
Richard Becker’s music has been commissioned by Meet the Composer Grants, by grants from CRS Records, by the Peabody Trio in conjunction with the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and he has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow and nominee for an American Academy of Arts and Letters award. His performances and his music have been heard on NPR, Voice of America, WNYC, WETA, WGMS, and WCVE, and at the American Music Festival of the National Gallery of Art. They have also been featured at CMS and MTNA conferences and during residencies at Marshall, James Madison, Eastern Mennonite Universities,the Longy School of Music and the Peabody and New England Conservatories and at the Eastman School of Music. He coached chamber music alongside the late Blanche Moyse and he performed and coached chamber music with members of the Shanghai Quartet during their the decade of an artist-residency at University of Richmond.
Richard Becker’s playing has been cited for its “powerful interpretations” by the Washington Post, for being “admirable in taste and technique” by the New York Times, and for being “brilliant and with seamless passagework and elegant phrasing” by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. His playing is grounded in the tradition of Arthur Schnabel acquired during his study with the late Leonard Shure while at Boston University (M. Mus.). His teaching owes much to the relaxation methods of Tobias Matthay, learned from Cécile Staub Genhart during his years at the Eastman School of Music (B.Mus. and Performers Certificate). He taught at the University of Texas and Boston University prior to joining the music faculty of the University of Richmond in 1975.
In recent years, Richard Becker’s poetry has been published by America, Columbia Magazine, Visions-International, Cold Mountain and Poetica Magazine: Contemporary Jewish Writing and Art and his poetic sequence, “FATES,” was a 2008 chapbook of The Literary Review. Hiscompositions have been recorded by CRS and his performances are available on Albany Records.
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Constance Carroll
is a native of Arizona and she holds a Master of Music and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. She was later awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for studies in Vienna and Salzburg, and for many years she also studied extensively with Matthay's pupil Frank Mannheimer. A frequent performer at previous Matthay Festivals, she has been praised throughout the nation for the elegance, refinement, and bravura of her playing. She has taught at Wisconsin State University in Superior, and Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina, and was artist-in-residence at Centenary College of Louisiana for twenty-one years. She was re-appointed to the faculty at Louisiana State University in 1995, and in 1996 became the first recipient of the Barineau Professorship of Keyboard Studies. Through the LSU graduate school, she has trained many successful, highly advanced pianists.
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Kevin Chance
is currently the President of the American Matthay Association and he serves as Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Alabama, where he coordinates the Gloria Narramore Moody Piano Area. As soloist and collaborator, he has performed throughout the United States and abroad, and recent performances have included Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and Saint-Saëns’s Le Carnaval des animaux. Performing regularly as a chamber musician, Dr. Chance has been a member of the Semplice Duo with flutist Cristina Ballatori for the past 17 years, and their performances have included world premieres at the National Flute Association Conference as well as recitals in Wisconsin, Texas, Colorado, Virginia, Alabama, New York, and Europe.
Recently named the 2015-2017 Teacher of the Year by the Alabama Music Teachers Association, he maintains an award-winning studio of college and pre-college students, and his students have garnered awards at the state, regional, and national levels, including two Clara Wells honorees. He serves on the faculties of the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Acqui Terme, Italy, and the New Orleans Piano Institute.
Dr. Chance is a member of the Semplice Duo with flutist Cristina Ballatori. In August 2004, they were named the winners of the Notes at 9,000 Emerging Artist Series Competition in Colorado. Past seasons have taken them to Texas, Colorado, New York, and Louisiana, and they were selected as artist fellows for the 2005 Hampden-Sydney Music Festival in Virginia, where they returned for a series of performances in 2008. They have twice performed in recital on the “Live from Hochstein” series, which were broadcast live on WXXI radio in Rochester, NY, and in 2014, they made their European debut in Paris. In 2017, they will make their Asian debut in a tour of China.
A sought-after teacher, Dr. Chance maintains a prize-winning studio, and his students are frequently named winners and finalists in local, state, regional, and national competitions, including the 2009 Music Teachers National Association’s National Competition Finals in Atlanta. He currently serves on the faculties of several summer festivals including the New Orleans Piano Institute. Additionally, he has taught at the Samford University Piano and Chamber Music Institute, the Huntingdon College Piano Academy and the Tennessee Valley Music Festival, and in 2013, he was the Guest Artist for the University of Texas at Brownsville Summer Piano Academy. In demand as a clinician and adjudicator, he regularly presents workshops and lecture-performances on repertoire and pedagogy throughout the country. In 2013, he served as a guest clinician for both the Mississippi Music Teachers Association and Alabama Music Teachers Association state conferences. Additionally, Dr. Chance has presented at the 2016 and 2008 Music Teachers National Association Conferences, the 2008 College Music Society (CMS) National Conference in Atlanta, the 2009 CMS National Conference in Portland, Oregon, and the 2012 American Matthay Association Conference at Union University. He is a Past President of the Alabama Music Teachers Association and in 2019 was elected Vice-President of the Music Teachers National Association.
He holds degrees with honors from the Eastman School of Music, Louisiana State University, and Birmingham-Southern College, and his former teachers include Barry Snyder, Constance Knox Carroll, Anne Koscielny, Ann Schein, William DeVan, and Betty Sue Shepherd.
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Francis Crociata
has written and lectured on the lives and music of the Russian composer-pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff and the American composer-organist Leo Sowerby for nearly five decades. Having enjoyed the confidence and encouragement of Rachmaninoff’s cousin/sister-in-law and close confidant, Dr. Sophie Satin, Crociata’s writings on Rachmaninoff have appeared in a host of concert and recording annotations, music periodicals, the New York Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and, most prominently, in the booklet which accompanied The Complete Rachmaninoff, the five-volume-edition of the composer’s recorded legacy issued by RCA Records to coincide with the Rachmaninoff centennial in 1973. As a co-producer of the original project, his main contribution was the principal essay entitled “Sergei Rachmaninoff: Portrait of a Great and Modest Master” which was re-published in the first compact disc edition. He is also one of the co-producers of the CD collection Rachmaninoff Plays Symphonic Dances for the Marston Records label. Previously, he co-produced and wrote the principal essay for the 6-CD set Jorge Bolet: Ambassador from the Golden Age issued by Marston Records in observance of Bolet’s birth centennial in 2014.
Crociata became president of the Leo Sowerby Foundation in 1993 and coordinated a nation-wide schedule of concerts and festivals spanning a period of 18 months in observance of Sowerby’s birth centennial in 1995. He produced, co-produced, or wrote the booklet annotations for 17 issued recordings of Sowerby’s music, wrote the cover essay for the May 1995 issue The American Organist and, as managing editor, oversaw the publication of 23 of Sowerby’s works, mostly first publications of secular and solo works, which appeared under the Sowerby Foundation’s imprint in cooperation with the Theodore Presser, Inc.
During his years at the Eastman School of Music, he wrote the program material for the School's 80th Birthday celebration of the former Matthay student, Distinguished University Professor Cécile Staub Genhart, including the liner notes for the commemorative LP recording of a selection of her recordings produced for that occasion.
Having studied organ with John Woolfolk and choral conducting with William Ferris, early in his life, Crociata was organist or organist-choir director at five Rochester Catholic churches. Having recently retired after 42 years in college/university advancement, he is now at work with friend and collaborator Gregor Benko, co-founder of the International Piano Archives, on a book which explores the relationship between Rachmaninoff and his friend and rival Josef Hofmann and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which links them for all time.
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Nancy Hill Elton
began her musical studies with piano lessons from her mother. She holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in both piano and vocal performance from the University of Texas. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina where she was the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the school’s highest honor, the Music Achievement Award. There she studied piano with John Kenneth Adams and voice with Evelyn McGarrity. At the University of Texas, she studied piano with John Perry and voice with Glenda Maurice and Bethany Beardslee. Additional piano study was with Frank Mannheimer for three summers in Duluth, Minnesota. She also attended the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where she studied piano with Jerome Lowenthal and accompanying and chamber music with Gwendolyn Koldolfsky.
A versatile performer, Nancy has fashioned a dual career in piano and in voice. She has received critical acclaim as a piano concerto soloist and as solo recitalist, and has performed throughout the South and many other areas of the US. She has an extensive solo repertoire, but has also performed as a collaborative artist with many instrumentalists and singers over the years. Concerto performances have included Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganni, Grieg's Piano Concerto, and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy for the Musica Sacra Concert Series at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta and again recently with the Buckhead Youth Orchestra. Nancy’s past presentations for the Matthay Festival have included solo recitals at Kennesaw State University and at the University of Kansas, and lecture recitals on Schumann’s Carnaval, and the Elliot Carter Piano Sonata.
A lyric soprano, Nancy has sung many leading operatic roles as well as art song recitals, and has accumulated an extensive oratorio repertoire. While she lived in Texas, she was sought by local composers for her pure tone and perfect pitch. She sang several premiers of songs by Kathryn Mischell and Priscilla Mclean. She is soprano soloist on a CD entitled Songs for Adults and Other Children (Capstone Records) by Priscilla McLean. A highlight of her vocal study was the honor of being selected through national taped auditions to study with famed soprano Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge in a German Lieder Summer Workshop in Thunder Bay, Canada. She was also soprano soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for a Youth Concert, singing the famous aria “Una voce poco fa” under the direction of William Fred Scot. Nancy sang as soprano soloist with the Musica Sacra Concert Series of Atlanta for 12 years, She sang the leading role in Bizet’s youthful opera, Dr. Miracle, for an entire season with the Atlanta Opera Outreach Program throughout the city schools of Atlanta. Her most recent performances have included singing Liszt’s Three Songs from William Tell at the American Liszt Society Conference last year at the University of Oregon. Nancy has also branched out into singing the great standard jazz songs of the early twentieth century in retirement homes and other venues. She will present next fall at the GMTA conference with Georgia’s jazz pianist legend, Geoffrey Haydn of Georgia State University, singing songs of Gershwin, Kern, Carmichael, Arlen and many others.
In addition to her large private studio, Nancy has held teaching positions at Georgia State University, Clayton State College and the University of West Georgia. She was recently invited to join the piano faculty of the University of Georgia where she teaches applied piano primarily to piano majors. Nancy is active as an adjudicator and clinician for many piano festivals and professional organizations throughout the Southeast and is Past-President of Atlanta Music Teachers Association. In 2005 she received the Georgia Music Teachers Association Teacher of the Year Award.
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Wendy Freeland
joined the music faculty of Jacksonville State University in 2002. As Professor of Music she teaches applied piano, class piano, piano ensemble, accompanying and music history for graduate students. Hailing from West Virginia, she completed her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance at the University of South Carolina under the tutelage of John Kenneth Adams. Her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance was earned at Florida Atlantic University where she studied with Heather Coltman and Judith Burganger, and was the first music student to complete both the academic and performance honors programs. She is the recipient of several performance and scholarship awards, and was named University Scholar by Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Freeland enjoys performing as soloist and collaborative artist. Performances in recent years include Carlos Franzetti’s Four Pieces for Virtuosi for the Alabama Music Teachers Association and the National Flute Convention. With Dr. Melody Ng she performed Rachmaninoff’s Suite for Two Pianos, No. 2, along with other works in Anniston and in Huntsville, AL, and will perform Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat major for Two Pianos with Dr. Ng in the coming year. Dr. Freeland has performed with instrumentalists, vocalists, and choral groups, and has extensive experience working in opera. She regularly performs at Jacksonville State University, and has performed in Sweden, Italy, Korea and Serbia.
Understanding music of the twentieth century through a cultural context has been Dr. Freeland’s research interest. Her doctoral dissertation titled "An Examination of the Promenades for Piano by Francis Poulenc" revealed the influences that shaped this composition. Her desire for the public to understand piano music by considering aspects of art and society led to her presentation and performance of this work at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia in 2011. Jacksonville State University has granted her the annual "Faculty Research Award" several times in recognition of her performances and presentations. Her broad perspective of the function of music and love for sharing it makes her an attentive and enthusiastic teacher who has worked with students in West Virginia, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama.
In addition to performing and teaching, Dr. Freeland is active in other musical pursuits. She actively adjudicates piano competitions and auditions, and enjoys giving master classes and presentations, such as “Technique: A Sound Approach,” to such groups as the Atlanta Music Teachers Association. Dr. Freeland organizes the annual Foothills Piano Festival on the campus of JSU, coordinates the JSU Music Academy, and is a Past President of the Alabama Music Teachers Association. She is a member of Phi Kappa Lambda, Sigma Alpha Iota, The American Matthay Association, Music Teachers National Association, and the World Piano Teachers Association.
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Stewart Gordon
has had a distinguished career as a pianist, teacher, writer, editor, composer, and impresario. He currently holds the position of Professor of Keyboard Studies at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California in Los Angles. As a performing pianist, he has played concerts throughout the world and recorded extensively (including the complete Preludes of Rachmaninoff), both to critical acclaim. As a teacher and author he has produced textbooks, essays, videotapes, and editions. As a composer, his musical theater works have been produced from coast to coast, and as an impresario, he has directed music festivals and competitions over the past decades in New York, Washington, and Savannah.
Born to the distinguished poet and novelist Guanetta Gordon and a career military officer Lynell Frank Gordon, Stewart Gordon grew up in many parts of the world, locations where his father served in the United States Army. Thus he was able to receive music instruction from a number of different teachers, some of them very famous: Olga Samaroff, Walter Gieseking, Cécile Genhart, and Adele Marcus.
After serving as a junior officer in the United States Navy for three years, he began his academic career at Wilmington College in Ohio. He then taught for more than two decades at the University of Maryland in College Park, where for six years he was chair of the Department of Music. It was at the University of Maryland that he created the international piano competition now known as the William Kapell and acted as its director for thirteen years.
He then served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Queens College of the City University of New York. For Queens College he created and directed the New York area-wide Cultural Heritage Competitions, as well as the Great Gospel Competitions.
Since 1988 he has served at his present academic post at the University of Southern California. At the same time he began to work with the Savannah, Georgia, community to create an annual music festival and competition. The Savannah Onstage Music Festival and the American Traditions Competition resulted, and he continued to act as artistic director for both events until 2002. Dr. Gordon
has authored many books, including A History of Keyboard Literature (Schirmer, 1996)—considered by most to be the standard work in the field—Mastering the Art of Performance (Oxford, 2006), and Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas (Oxford, 2017). As an editor, he has completed a new critical edition of the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven (Alfred) in four volumes (2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010), as well as the Debussy Etudes (2015). He is currently engaged in a critical edition of the Mozart piano sonatas, scheduled for release soon.
Today he makes his home in Southern California on a hill in Rancho Palos Verdes overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island. Stewart Gordon's web site is http://stewartgordon.com.
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Bradford Gowen
has received national attention since winning first prize in the 1978 Kennedy Center/Rockefeller Foundation International Competition for Excellence in the Performance of American Music. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music where he studied piano with Cecile Genhart and composition with Samuel Adler. He later studied piano with Leon Fleisher and with Dorothy Taubman.
After winning the American music prize, Mr. Gowen made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall and recorded an album of American music for New World Records; in the spring of 1998 this recording, Exultation, was re-released as a CD with additional, newly recorded pieces included. On Memorial Day 1980, he performed Aaron Copland’s Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer; the next year he performed several more times with that orchestra under Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Shostakovich. In January 1985 he performed the world premiere of Samuel Adler’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. In 1998 he played at the MTNA national convention, and he performed and gave a masterclass in the 70th birthday celebration for Leon Fleisher at the University of Kansas. In 2000, he gave the world premiere of the Piano Sonata of Judith Lang Zaimont.
Mr. Gowen's numerous chamber music performances have included appearances at the Library of Congress Summer Chamber Festival. He has also appeared with cellist David Soyer, with the Kronos Quartet, and with the Guarneri Quartet. He has made many duo appearances with his wife, pianist Maribeth Gowen, including a 1997 Schubert bicentennial concert at the National Gallery of Art devoted to the composer’s four-hand works.
He wrote for over twenty years for the Piano Quarterly and Piano & Keyboard, and he made a number of recordings for the Piano Quarterly. In 2002 he wrote a major series of three articles on twentieth-century American piano music for the London-based International Piano. Mr. Gowen has served as a judge for several international piano competitions, including the Kapell, the Gina Bachauer, and the Sydney, and he was a member of the Advisory Committee that created and ran the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors National Concerto Competition.
Since 1981 he has been on the faculty at the University of Maryland. For three years he taught also at the Levine School of Music (Washington, DC), and in 2005 he joined the faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music. He is one of the 48 pianists featured in Benjamin Saver's 1993 book The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA.
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Mary Pendleton Hoffer
is the immediate past president of the American Matthay Association and she currently serves as editor of the Matthay News. She
has performed as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral keyboardist, and
accompanist in the United States, Mexico, and England. She made her
London solo debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in 1984, and she has
appeared as a soloist with the Phoenix Symphony, and the Amarillo and
Lubbock Symphonies. For many years she served as Keyboardist for the
Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Principal Keyboardist for the Sun Cities
Symphony. She has also served as Keyboardist for The Florida Orchestra
in Tampa. She is a member of many chamber ensembles, including the Bel
Canto Players, and frequently performs with singers. Her summer festival
appearances include the Sedona Chamber Music Festival, the New
Hampshire Music Festival, and the Park City International Chamber Music
Festival. She began to play the piano before she was three years old,
studying with her father, Samuel Pendleton, a student of Tobias Matthay.
At the age of five, she was the youngest performer ever to participate
in the Berkeley (California) Bach Festival, and she later was a prize
winner in the Chicago Young Artists Competition. She graduated as
Salutatorian from Interlochen Arts Academy, and completed Bachelor and
Master of Music degrees at Texas Tech University. She studied in England
with Denise Lassimonne, Martino Tirimo and Gwenneth Pryor, completing
graduate diplomas at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of
Music. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State
University. She has taught at Texas Tech University, Arizona State
University, and in the Maricopa County (AZ) Community Colleges. For over 30 years, she was
married to the late Warren Hoffer, long a professor of voice at ASU, with whom
she often performed.
Jim Lees
has an ancient but interrupted history with the American Matthay Association. In 1971, while he was a student of Donald Hageman, he was the recipient of the first Clara Wells award; he received that honor again in 1974. In 1976 he was privileged to play a solo recital for the festival held at the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music; he presented another recital for the festival at San Jose State University in 1980. In 1976 Jim became the principal pianist for the San Francisco Ballet where he played classes and rehearsals for the company and served as orchestra keyboardist. This also gave him the opportunity to perform such works as the Stravinsky Capriccio and the Tchaikovsky Third Concerto as piano soloist at various venues, including Ravinia, the Edinburgh Festival, Blossom Center, and the White House. During this time he also studied with pianist Marta Bracchi-LeRoux.
In 1983 he thought he had had enough of playing the piano, and he moved to Las Vegas to become a poker dealer. After several years in that challenging city he came to see his need for a Higher Power, and to his surprise, he eventually became a believer and follower of Jesus Christ. This led to him moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1995 in order to be involved with Precept Ministries. He also took his first job in the restaurant industry, and he has been a waiter at St. John's Restaurant for the past fifteen years.
Several years ago Jim waited on the pianist Gloria Chien. They struck up a conversation, and this led to Jim wondering whether or not he could still play the piano at a "serious" level. In order to explore this possibility he started the St. Elmo Piano Trio with two excellent musicians from his church, Suzanne Sims (cello) and Heidi Barker (violin). They performed a number of well-received concerts for several years until their violinist left to pursue educational opportunities. Then, in 2015, Jim decided to start working on a solo recital, his first in almost 35 years. A year later he presented a program consisting of two of his "bucket list" pieces, the Beethoven Eroica Variations and the Schubert B-flat Sonata. Also on the program was the Elliott Carter Catènaires. He followed that in 2017 with selections by Debussy, Satie, and Ravel on a program with the Chopin B Minor Sonata, this time with valuable teaching/coaching assistance from Dr. Steven Wilber of Lee University.
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Barton Moreau
made his solo debut in a New York City performance with the New England Youth Ensemble at the age of 15. He has since performed as a featured soloist with orchestras across the United States, including the Northwest Florida Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, Port City Symphony (Mobile, AL), Mesa Symphony (Arizona), Gulf Coast Symphony, and the Boise Baroque Orchestra.
Moreau’s honors include a top prize at the Debose National Piano Competition and a collegiate artist award from the Alabama Music Teachers Association. In 2007, he was a finalist at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference’s PIANOvision Most Wanted Piano Competition, an international online competition created by Benjamin Saver.
As a collaborative artist, Moreau has performed with a diverse array of distinguished international players, including clarinetists Robert Spring and Jorge Montilla, oboists Andrea Ridilla and Gonzalo Ruiz, violinist Rachel Barton Pine, and composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR). He has appeared at national and international conferences, including those of the College Music Society, International Double Reed Society (IDRS), and the International Clarinet Association (ICA), most recently at ClarinetFest 2018. Other performances include appearances with the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra, and at the McCall Second Sunday Sounds Concert Series (Idaho). Moreau joined the Boise Baroque Orchestra as principal keyboardist in 2012 and regularly appears on their subscription series.
Moreau holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University, and a Master of Music degree in piano performance from Indiana University. His collegiate career began at the University of South Alabama, where he was a recipient of the Theodore Presser Award. Moreau’s major teachers were Robert Hamilton, Karen Shaw, and Jerry Bush. He has also coached with Lee Luvisi, Fabio Bidini, Mykola Suk, and Leonard Hokanson.
Moreau serves as a Lecturer of Music at Boise State, teaching courses in piano, music theory, and music history. In addition to his collegiate teaching and performance activities, he is also an active studio teacher and adjudicator and an Associate Member of the American Matthay Association for Piano.
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Jennifer Shoup
received a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Certificate in Piano Pedagogy from
Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance from the University of Dayton. She
began Doctoral studies at Arizona State University. Her teachers include Donald Hageman, Eric Street, Enrique
Graf and Caio Pagano. Additional studies took place in Vienna, Austria and at Belgais Center for the Arts
(Portugal).
Jennifer has been a featured soloist with the National Orchestras of Chile, Costa Rica and the University of
Dayton Orchestra. She has presented solo recitals for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival Piano Series (South Carolina), Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention (Florida) and numerous faculty artist series across the United States. She frequently lectures, recently presenting a lecture-recital for the American Matthay Association for Piano at the University of Kansas and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Convention held in Cleveland. She has worked with a diverse range of artists including Emanuel Ax, Maria Joao Pires, Earl Wild and Grammy award-winning composer Lucy Simon.
Jennifer has taught for the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Prep School and as adjunct faculty for Cedarville University and the University of Dayton. She currently owns The Piano Preparatory School and Beavercreek Music, serving more than two hundred families in Dayton, Ohio.
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