National and Regional
Workshops/Presentations/Publications:
Minnesota Music Teachers Association State
Convention, June 2008. "Do I Really Have to
Perform: Musicians Who Teach."
North Carolina Music Teachers Association State
Conference, October 2007. “Teaching Today: New
and Old Perspectives.”
Greensboro Music Teacher’s Association, February
2007. “New Thoughts on Teaching Adults.”
Editor and writer for the Salem College Community
Music School Tempo publication (3-4 issues
each year), 2004-present.
“Results of the 2005 Survey to NCMTA Piano
Teachers.” North Carolina Music Teachers
Association Bulletin, Winter 2005.
North Carolina Music Teachers Association, 2005.
Two presentations on the repertoire list for the
2006 NCMTA Piano Competition. Demonstrations and
teaching tips to teachers and students regarding
about 60 pieces from the annual repertoire list.
North Carolina Music Teachers Association State
Conference, 2005. “Results of the 2005 Survey to
NCMTA Piano Teachers: Questions, Answers, and
Discussion.”
Winston-Salem Professional Piano Teacher’s
Association, 2005. “Why Don’t They Just Behave?
Adult Piano Students.”
Raleigh Professional Piano Teacher’s Association,
2004, “Traits of Adult Music Students and Strategies
for Successful Teaching.”
Music Teacher’s National Association, National
Convention, 2004, “Piano Ensembles that Motivate.”
Joint presentation.
Greensboro Music Teacher’s Association, 2004,
“Evaluation and Assessment in Pre-college Music
Instruction.”
“The Canadian Model of Piano Pedagogy Training.”
The Piano Pedagogy Forum, January, 2003.
North Carolina A&T State University, October 2002,
“Practice Makes Permanent: Research, Traditions, and
Ideas.”
Oklahoma Music Teacher’s Association, State
Convention, 2002, “New Piano Ensemble Teaching
Literature.” Joint presentation.
Music Educator’s National Convention, 2002, “The
Relationship Between Selected Pre-college Music
Instruction and Achievement in Undergraduate Music
Theory Courses: Predictors of Achievement.” Poster
Presentation, Nashville, Tennessee.
2001 Symposium of World Musics, “Arthur Farwell’s
American Indian Melodies, for piano: Discovering
the Omaha Spirit in Stories and Songs.” Lecture
recital at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
North Carolina A&T State University, “Claude
Debussy, the Piano, and French Impressionism.” Joint
lecture-recital with Dr. Reeves Shulstad, 1999.
Presentations as part of graduate degrees on: the
music of George Gershwin; Nadia Boulanger—teacher of
American composers; Rhythmic Techniques in
Copland’s Piano Variations; Compositional Elements
in Barber’s first Excursion for piano; the works of
Samuel Barber; Learning Transfer Research; Immanuel
Kant’s Aesthetics; Christopher Small’s Philosophy of
Music; Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3; The
Sociology of Arts Integration; Howard Gardner’s
Multiple Intelligence Theory; and David Keirsey’s
Temperament/Personality Profiles.
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