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Teaching & Presentations

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music"

David Bowie

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Lecture Topics

Piano Teaching

Taubman Approach to Piano Technique

(Master Class option)

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The Other Schumann: Clara Wieck's Life and her Works for Piano

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How to use Music Theory to Teach Interpretation 

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Advanced Music for Pianists with Small Hands

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Collaborative Musicianship:  Consorting with Singers

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Guest Lecturer - Samples

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Birmingham-Bloomfield

   Orchestra Pre-Concert Talks

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Chamber Music Society of Detroit 

   Pre-Concert Talks

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Michigan Music Teachers     Association State Conference   Presenter

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Michigan Music Teachers Association Local Chapter Guest Presenter and Clinician

(Topics above)

I teach applied piano at Madonna University in Livonia, MI, and maintain a home studio for beginning, intermediate and advanced students.
 
If you are interested in lessons, please send me an email.
Publications 

Madonna University Alma Mater

© 2006  All Rights Reserved

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"How to Get a Handel on What's Haydn in Your Students' Heads"

Learning to Write

Writing to Learn

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(Madonna College Humanities Writing Program Dissemination Booklet, 1986)

Edited by E. Nolan & K. O'Dowd

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The Omnibus Essential Guide to Classical CDs (Schirmer Trade Books, 2004): 

biographies of 

Christoph Willibald Gluck;

Karl Goldmark; Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Morton Gould; Enrique Granados;

Edvard Grieg

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Teaching Large Classes:  Lecture/Listen or Active Student Engagement

2008

NEH Distinguished Professorship

General Education courses

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