Kate Liu, Featured Artist
Pianist Kate Liu gained international acclaim after winning the Bronze Medal and Best Mazurka Prize at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland. She was also awarded the audience favorite prize voted by the Polish public on the Polish National Radio.
As a soloist, Kate has performed in many important venues, such as the Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Severance Hall in Cleveland, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Shanghai Concert Hall, Osaka Symphony Hall, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Hall, Phillip’s Collection, and others. She has collaborated with orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Polish Radio Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and Evanston Symphony Orchestra. Her debut album of works by Chopin was released on the Fryderyk Chopin Institute label in 2016.
Born in Singapore, Kate began playing the piano when she was four years old and moved to the United States when she was eight. Her private studies then were at the Music Institute of Chicago with Emilio del Rosario, Micah Yui and Alan Chow. Early on in her career, she won 1st Prizes at the Third Asia-Pacific International Chopin Competition and the New York International Piano Competition. She received a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Robert McDonald, as well as a Master’s and Artist Diploma degree from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinsky.
As a soloist, Kate has performed in many important venues, such as the Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Severance Hall in Cleveland, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Shanghai Concert Hall, Osaka Symphony Hall, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Hall, Phillip’s Collection, and others. She has collaborated with orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Polish Radio Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and Evanston Symphony Orchestra. Her debut album of works by Chopin was released on the Fryderyk Chopin Institute label in 2016.
Born in Singapore, Kate began playing the piano when she was four years old and moved to the United States when she was eight. Her private studies then were at the Music Institute of Chicago with Emilio del Rosario, Micah Yui and Alan Chow. Early on in her career, she won 1st Prizes at the Third Asia-Pacific International Chopin Competition and the New York International Piano Competition. She received a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Robert McDonald, as well as a Master’s and Artist Diploma degree from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinsky.
Noa Kageyama, Clinician
Performance psychologist Noa Kageyama is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. A conservatory-trained violinist with degrees from Oberlin and Juilliard before pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology at Indiana University, Noa now specializes in working with performing artists, teaching them how to utilize sport psychology principles and more consistently perform up to their full abilities under pressure.
He has conducted workshops for institutions ranging from Northwestern University, New England Conservatory, Peabody, Eastman, Curtis, McGill University, and the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music, to programs such as the Starling-Delay Symposium, The Perlman Music Program, and the National Orchestral Institute, and for organizations like the Music Teachers’ National Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Sphinx Organization, the Performing Arts Medicine Association, and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.
Noa’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, TED-Ed, Musical America, Strings Magazine, Strad, and Lifehacker. He has taught over 6000 musicians, educators, and learners through his online mental skills courses, and authors a performance psychology blog called The Bulletproof Musician with over 45,000 subscribers.
https://bulletproofmusician.com/
He has conducted workshops for institutions ranging from Northwestern University, New England Conservatory, Peabody, Eastman, Curtis, McGill University, and the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music, to programs such as the Starling-Delay Symposium, The Perlman Music Program, and the National Orchestral Institute, and for organizations like the Music Teachers’ National Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Sphinx Organization, the Performing Arts Medicine Association, and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.
Noa’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, TED-Ed, Musical America, Strings Magazine, Strad, and Lifehacker. He has taught over 6000 musicians, educators, and learners through his online mental skills courses, and authors a performance psychology blog called The Bulletproof Musician with over 45,000 subscribers.
https://bulletproofmusician.com/
Gary McPherson, Clinician
Ormond Professor Gary McPherson is a multi-faceted music professional whose career includes performances as a trumpeter and conductor with various ensembles throughout Australia, three major longitudinal research studies involving musicians in Australia and the United States, and over 30 years as a University academic. Gary completed his undergraduate training in music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before gaining a Licentiate (L.T.C.L) and Fellowship (F.T.C.L.) in trumpet performance from Trinity College, London, a Master of Music Education at Indiana University and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. In 2021 he was the recipient of an Artium Doctorem Honoris Causa, Honorary Doctorate awarded by the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University (est. 1666), Sweden. Gary is also a former President of the Australian and International Societies for Music Education who has been conferred "Honorary Life Membership" of the ISME and the honour "Fellow" of the ASME. He is respected as an international advocate for the power of music in people’s lives and in children’s education.
Gary’s research has provided an increased and deepened understanding of how individuals develop wide-ranging musical skills. Investigating the biological, cognitive and social process involved in acquiring and applying musical competencies, and the personal, environmental and developmental factors that affect musical development, ability, identity, and wellbeing more generally, he is widely accepted as having had very considerable impact on both music education theory and, not least, its everyday international practice. The value of this contribution is evidenced by widespread citations, guest lecturing at over 100 universities in around 30 different countries, and well over 100 keynote presentations at national and international conferences in various parts of the world.
Gary has served on the editorial boards of all the major English language research journals in music education and is currently an Associate Editor for Psychology of Music, Research Studies in Music Education (which he helped establish in 1993), and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies. His published output is prolific, with over 300 articles and book chapters in a wide range of journals, books and conference proceedings. Included among these is a co-authored volume entitled Music in our Lives: Rethinking Musical Ability, Development and Identity (OUP, 2012) and edited and co-edited books such as The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning (2002), The Child as Musician: A handbook of musical development (2006; 2016), Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology and Ethnomusicology (2016), the two volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education (2012), and the two volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance (2022).
Since arriving in Melbourne in 2009, Gary has served as Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium (2009-2019) and has been instrumental in establishing interdisciplinary connections across the university and part of the driving force behind the Music, Mind & Wellbeing initiative. Previous positions have included serving as the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Professor of Creative Arts at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
See also, the following sites:
Google Scholar: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/6mna
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary_Mcpherson2
Academia: https://svbh.academia.edu/GaryMcPherson / Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_E._McPherson
Gary’s research has provided an increased and deepened understanding of how individuals develop wide-ranging musical skills. Investigating the biological, cognitive and social process involved in acquiring and applying musical competencies, and the personal, environmental and developmental factors that affect musical development, ability, identity, and wellbeing more generally, he is widely accepted as having had very considerable impact on both music education theory and, not least, its everyday international practice. The value of this contribution is evidenced by widespread citations, guest lecturing at over 100 universities in around 30 different countries, and well over 100 keynote presentations at national and international conferences in various parts of the world.
Gary has served on the editorial boards of all the major English language research journals in music education and is currently an Associate Editor for Psychology of Music, Research Studies in Music Education (which he helped establish in 1993), and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies. His published output is prolific, with over 300 articles and book chapters in a wide range of journals, books and conference proceedings. Included among these is a co-authored volume entitled Music in our Lives: Rethinking Musical Ability, Development and Identity (OUP, 2012) and edited and co-edited books such as The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning (2002), The Child as Musician: A handbook of musical development (2006; 2016), Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology and Ethnomusicology (2016), the two volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education (2012), and the two volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance (2022).
Since arriving in Melbourne in 2009, Gary has served as Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium (2009-2019) and has been instrumental in establishing interdisciplinary connections across the university and part of the driving force behind the Music, Mind & Wellbeing initiative. Previous positions have included serving as the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Professor of Creative Arts at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
See also, the following sites:
Google Scholar: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/6mna
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary_Mcpherson2
Academia: https://svbh.academia.edu/GaryMcPherson / Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_E._McPherson
Christopher Fisher, Clinician
Dr. Christopher Fisher is Professor of Piano at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio where he co-chairs the Keyboard Division and directs the nationally recognized undergraduate and graduate piano performance and pedagogy programs. He is the Artistic Director of the Ohio University Piano Pedagogy Seminar and is a Faculty Fellow for the 1804 Scholars Program. Dr. Fisher served as Director of the Ohio University School of Music from 2020-2022 and Assistant Director from 2019-2020. Recognized for his teaching, Dr. Fisher was the 2010 recipient of the Ohio Music Teachers Association Collegiate Teacher of the Year Award and the Ohio University School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award.
Dr. Fisher is the author of Teaching Piano in Groups (Oxford University Press, 2010), the only comprehensive group piano pedagogy textbook of its kind. A Chinese translation of Teaching Piano in Groups is also available. Dr. Fisher is the co-author of the revised and expanded edition of Piano Duet Repertoire (Indiana University Press, 2016) and co-author of Functional Skills for Pianists (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook for Piano Pedagogy (Oxford University Press) with Dr. Sally Cathcart. He has published in leading keyboard journals including Keyboard Companion, American Music Teacher, Clavier, and Clavier Companion. He is a contributing composer for the innovative piano method, Piano Safari (www.pianosafari.com), which is used by piano teachers and students around the globe. His educational compositions are published by Alfred Music and Piano Safari.
In demand as a workshop clinician, Dr. Fisher has presented lectures nationally and internationally, including the National Conferences of the Music Teachers National Association (Washington, D.C., 2001; Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007; Atlanta, 2009; San Antonio, Texas, 2016; Orlando, Florida, 2018), the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (Lombard, Illinois, 2013; 2017; 2019), Centro para la Pedagogia de los Instruments de Cuerda (CEPIC) (Madrid, Spain, 2023), the Music & Drama Education Expo (London, England, 2018), the National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Forum (Norman, Oklahoma, 2006; Austin, Texas, 2010), the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference (Canberra, Australia, 2008), Encontro Internacional de Pianistas de Piracicaba (Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016), The Curious Piano Teachers Live Conferences (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2018 and Oxford, England, 2018) and the American Music Therapy Association (Orlando, Florida, 2005). He has served as a guest lecturer at leading universities and conservatories across the U.S. including recent engagements at The Juilliard School in New York (USA), the Tianjin Juilliard School (China), the Manhattan School of Music, the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, University of Oxford (UK), and Trinity Laban Conservatoire (UK).
As a performing artist, Dr. Fisher frequently plays both solo and collaborative recitals, including duet and duo piano performances with wife, pianist Katherine Fisher. The Fisher Piano Duo was awarded first prize in the Adult Duo Division of the Graves Piano and Organ Company/OhioMTA Piano Competition in 2007. As a recording artist, Dr. Fisher can be heard on the MSR Classics label (Samplings: New Music for Bassoon and Piano; MS1547).
Dr. Fisher is an active member of Music Teachers National Association and has served as Vice-President for Conferences and Vice-President for Membership for the Ohio Music Teachers Association; he presently serves as Collegiate Chapter Chair. He is the faculty advisor for the Ohio University Collegiate Chapter of MTNA, recipient of the 2021, 2019, and 2015 MTNA Collegiate Chapter Award. Dr. Fisher maintains a studio of pre-college students who have been successful at state and regional piano competitions and festivals. He frequently serves as an adjudicator and master class clinician at piano festivals and competitions throughout the United States and abroad, including the MTNA Stecher & Horowitz Two Piano Competition, the OHIO International Piano Duet & Duo Competition, and the United States Virtuoso Artists International Piano Competition.
A native of Missouri, Dr. Fisher holds degrees from Wichita State University (Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy) and Northwest Missouri State University (Bachelor of Arts). He was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma where he was the recipient of the prestigious Alumni Graduate Fellowship. His piano and piano pedagogy teachers include Edward Gates, Jane Magrath, Barbara Fast, Julie Bees, Sylvia Coats, Richard Bobo, and Betty Preston.
Dr. Fisher resides in Albany, Ohio with his wife Katherine and their children Isaiah and Anna.
Christopher Fisher is a Yamaha Artist.
www.chrisfisherpiano.com
Dr. Fisher is the author of Teaching Piano in Groups (Oxford University Press, 2010), the only comprehensive group piano pedagogy textbook of its kind. A Chinese translation of Teaching Piano in Groups is also available. Dr. Fisher is the co-author of the revised and expanded edition of Piano Duet Repertoire (Indiana University Press, 2016) and co-author of Functional Skills for Pianists (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook for Piano Pedagogy (Oxford University Press) with Dr. Sally Cathcart. He has published in leading keyboard journals including Keyboard Companion, American Music Teacher, Clavier, and Clavier Companion. He is a contributing composer for the innovative piano method, Piano Safari (www.pianosafari.com), which is used by piano teachers and students around the globe. His educational compositions are published by Alfred Music and Piano Safari.
In demand as a workshop clinician, Dr. Fisher has presented lectures nationally and internationally, including the National Conferences of the Music Teachers National Association (Washington, D.C., 2001; Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007; Atlanta, 2009; San Antonio, Texas, 2016; Orlando, Florida, 2018), the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (Lombard, Illinois, 2013; 2017; 2019), Centro para la Pedagogia de los Instruments de Cuerda (CEPIC) (Madrid, Spain, 2023), the Music & Drama Education Expo (London, England, 2018), the National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Forum (Norman, Oklahoma, 2006; Austin, Texas, 2010), the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference (Canberra, Australia, 2008), Encontro Internacional de Pianistas de Piracicaba (Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016), The Curious Piano Teachers Live Conferences (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2018 and Oxford, England, 2018) and the American Music Therapy Association (Orlando, Florida, 2005). He has served as a guest lecturer at leading universities and conservatories across the U.S. including recent engagements at The Juilliard School in New York (USA), the Tianjin Juilliard School (China), the Manhattan School of Music, the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, University of Oxford (UK), and Trinity Laban Conservatoire (UK).
As a performing artist, Dr. Fisher frequently plays both solo and collaborative recitals, including duet and duo piano performances with wife, pianist Katherine Fisher. The Fisher Piano Duo was awarded first prize in the Adult Duo Division of the Graves Piano and Organ Company/OhioMTA Piano Competition in 2007. As a recording artist, Dr. Fisher can be heard on the MSR Classics label (Samplings: New Music for Bassoon and Piano; MS1547).
Dr. Fisher is an active member of Music Teachers National Association and has served as Vice-President for Conferences and Vice-President for Membership for the Ohio Music Teachers Association; he presently serves as Collegiate Chapter Chair. He is the faculty advisor for the Ohio University Collegiate Chapter of MTNA, recipient of the 2021, 2019, and 2015 MTNA Collegiate Chapter Award. Dr. Fisher maintains a studio of pre-college students who have been successful at state and regional piano competitions and festivals. He frequently serves as an adjudicator and master class clinician at piano festivals and competitions throughout the United States and abroad, including the MTNA Stecher & Horowitz Two Piano Competition, the OHIO International Piano Duet & Duo Competition, and the United States Virtuoso Artists International Piano Competition.
A native of Missouri, Dr. Fisher holds degrees from Wichita State University (Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy) and Northwest Missouri State University (Bachelor of Arts). He was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma where he was the recipient of the prestigious Alumni Graduate Fellowship. His piano and piano pedagogy teachers include Edward Gates, Jane Magrath, Barbara Fast, Julie Bees, Sylvia Coats, Richard Bobo, and Betty Preston.
Dr. Fisher resides in Albany, Ohio with his wife Katherine and their children Isaiah and Anna.
Christopher Fisher is a Yamaha Artist.
www.chrisfisherpiano.com
Katherine Fisher, Clinician
Katherine Fisher is the co-author of the internationally acclaimed piano method Piano Safari. In demand as a piano pedagogy clinician, she has delivered workshops to piano teachers around the globe with recent engagements in Iceland, Spain, and the UK.
She is on the faculty of the Athens Community Music School at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio where she teaches private piano lessons as well as coordinates the Piano Safari Program (group lessons) for children who are beginners at the instrument.
Katherine is a member of the Fisher Piano Duo with husband, Dr. Christopher Fisher. The duo has performed throughout the United States and Europe. They are co-authors of the revised and expanded edition of Piano Duet Repertoire (Indiana University Press, 2016).
A native of Ohio, Katherine received her degrees from the University of Oklahoma (MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy) and the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music (BM in Piano Performance). Her former teachers include Jeongwon Ham, Jane Magrath, Barbara Fast, Karin R. Edwards, and Nancy Bachus.
Katherine Fisher is a Yamaha Artist.
www.pianosafari.com
She is on the faculty of the Athens Community Music School at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio where she teaches private piano lessons as well as coordinates the Piano Safari Program (group lessons) for children who are beginners at the instrument.
Katherine is a member of the Fisher Piano Duo with husband, Dr. Christopher Fisher. The duo has performed throughout the United States and Europe. They are co-authors of the revised and expanded edition of Piano Duet Repertoire (Indiana University Press, 2016).
A native of Ohio, Katherine received her degrees from the University of Oklahoma (MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy) and the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music (BM in Piano Performance). Her former teachers include Jeongwon Ham, Jane Magrath, Barbara Fast, Karin R. Edwards, and Nancy Bachus.
Katherine Fisher is a Yamaha Artist.
www.pianosafari.com
Emely Phelps, Clinician
Recently appointed Artist-Teacher of Piano at Ohio University, pianist Emely Phelps enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Praised by the Boston Globe for her “fleet, energetic, and bright-toned” playing, Emely made her solo orchestral debut with the National Symphony Orchestra as the grand prizewinner of their Young Soloists Competition, and has since been a featured soloist with the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, Little River Symphony, McLean Symphony, and the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. She has presented solo recitals throughout North America and Europe, with annual appearances in New York and Boston beginning in 2016, and additional highlights including recitals at Slot Schagen and Muiderslot in the Netherlands, Strathmore Hall’s Music in the Mansion Series, Banff Centre for the Arts, the Alden Theater, Meredith College, and Glen Eyrie.
From 2008-2016, Emely was the pianist of Trio Cleonice, with whom she performed in more than 15 states, toured Europe - including a recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam - and won second prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. The group also served as the Graduate Piano Trio-in-Residence at New England Conservatory from 2011-2014, actively highlighted piano trios of the 20th and 21st centuries - including a trio written for the group by Richard Wernick, and for 2 ½ years curated a monthly chamber music series, Trio Cleonice and Friends, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Besides her work with Trio Cleonice, Emely has also appeared as a guest artist with the Borromeo String Quartet and has attended numerous chamber music festivals, including five summers at Yellow Barn, three summers at Kneisel Hall, and two summers at Banff, as well as the International Holland Music Sessions and Four Seasons Winter Workshop. She currently maintains active duo partnerships with violist Jonathan Bagg and flutist Hannah Porter Occeña, and performs regularly with Electric Earth concerts.
Emely currently teaches applied piano and keyboard repertoire at Ohio University, and heads the graduate collaborative piano degree program at the school. Prior to her appointment at OU, she was the head piano TA at Stony Brook University, teaching for and managing their undergraduate piano program. Emely has also been on the faculties the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, and Icicle Creek’s Young Pianists Camp. She has maintained private teaching studios in New York and Boston for over a decade, was a member of the piano faculty at The Geneva Conservatory of Music in Manhattan from 2008-2010, and has coached chamber music at New England Conservatory’s Preparatory Division and Stony Brook University.
A native of Frederick, Maryland, Emely studied with Carole Kriewaldt and Marjorie Lee before receiving her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Julian Martin. She also studied with Vivian Weilerstein during Trio Cleonice’s tenure at NEC, receiving a Graduate Diploma in chamber music. Emely recently completed her doctoral studies at Stony Brook University with Christina Dahl.
From 2008-2016, Emely was the pianist of Trio Cleonice, with whom she performed in more than 15 states, toured Europe - including a recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam - and won second prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. The group also served as the Graduate Piano Trio-in-Residence at New England Conservatory from 2011-2014, actively highlighted piano trios of the 20th and 21st centuries - including a trio written for the group by Richard Wernick, and for 2 ½ years curated a monthly chamber music series, Trio Cleonice and Friends, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Besides her work with Trio Cleonice, Emely has also appeared as a guest artist with the Borromeo String Quartet and has attended numerous chamber music festivals, including five summers at Yellow Barn, three summers at Kneisel Hall, and two summers at Banff, as well as the International Holland Music Sessions and Four Seasons Winter Workshop. She currently maintains active duo partnerships with violist Jonathan Bagg and flutist Hannah Porter Occeña, and performs regularly with Electric Earth concerts.
Emely currently teaches applied piano and keyboard repertoire at Ohio University, and heads the graduate collaborative piano degree program at the school. Prior to her appointment at OU, she was the head piano TA at Stony Brook University, teaching for and managing their undergraduate piano program. Emely has also been on the faculties the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, and Icicle Creek’s Young Pianists Camp. She has maintained private teaching studios in New York and Boston for over a decade, was a member of the piano faculty at The Geneva Conservatory of Music in Manhattan from 2008-2010, and has coached chamber music at New England Conservatory’s Preparatory Division and Stony Brook University.
A native of Frederick, Maryland, Emely studied with Carole Kriewaldt and Marjorie Lee before receiving her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Julian Martin. She also studied with Vivian Weilerstein during Trio Cleonice’s tenure at NEC, receiving a Graduate Diploma in chamber music. Emely recently completed her doctoral studies at Stony Brook University with Christina Dahl.
Janet Lopinski, Clinician
Dr. Janet Lopinski, Senior Director of Academic Programs at The Royal Conservatory, has enjoyed a multi-faceted career as a pianist, teacher, adjudicator, lecturer, and author. As a passionate advocate for music education, she has inspired and mentored students and teachers across North America.
