Presentations

  • March 2024

    “Publish or Perish: Sourcing Historic Women Composers through the Centuries." North Shore Piano Teachers Guild, Swampscott, MA

  • August 2023

    Appearance on the Morning Show with Mary Jacobsen, WJOP Newburyport. “Native American Composers within a Project Based Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pOVWyD_eL8

  • July 2023

    Publish or Perish: How Women Composers Defied Obscurity when Publishers were Scarce.” Chicago, Illinois for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP)

  • March 2023

    “Words Matter: Ching a Ring Chaw and Minstrelsy in Aaron Copland’s “Old American Songs” arranged for Solo and choral Performance.” Forthcoming, Reno, Nevada for MTNA.

  • July 2021

    “Creating Recitals for a More Diverse Tomorrow!” Panel discussion with Sue Ruby, Sally Ritchie, and Lynn Worcester Jones, NCKP, July 2021.

  • July 2021

    “Introducing the Music of Historic Women Composers on SuperScore”, with George Litterest, NCKP, July 2021.

  • March 2021

    “Overcoming the Sticky Floor: Re-writing the Myths of Women Composers to Reveal the Scope and Genius of their Magic” with Sue Ruby, NCTM, Sally Ritchie and Lynn Worcester Jones, PhD., MTNA, March 2021.

  • February 2021

    “Overcoming the Sticky Floor: Re-writing the Myths of Women Composers to Reveal the Scope and Genius of their Magic” A Round Table Discussion with Sue Ruby, NCTM, Sally Ritchie and Lynn Worcester Jones, PhD., Music Ed Connect, February 2021.

  • February 2021

    “Silent Movie Music, Across Gender and Race,” Music Ed Connect, February 2021.

  • October 2020

    “Emoji, Marco-Polo and Pet Sharing Recitals, Oh My! Teaching Music Online can be productive and fun.”, Association for Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss, October 2020.

  • October 2020

    “When Our Students Inspire Others”, Pittsburgh National Association of Piano Teachers, October 2020.

  • November 2020

    “Art, Politics and Culture at the Time of Fauré’s Requiem,” Newburyport Choral Society, November, 2020.

  • March 2020

    Video interview and presentation: “In Diversity There is Beauty and and in Beauty There is Strength—Achieving Inclusion and Diversity to Enhance Your Studio Growth”, by Diane Dumlavwalla and Melody Ng, MTNA, March 2020.

  • February 2020

    Video presentation: “Teaching Expressive Communication Using Silent Movie Projects in the Music Studio,” MusicEdConnect, February 2020.

  • April, May, June 2020

    Live video presentation: “Myths, Magic and Mysteries of Women Composers” with Sue Ruby, NCTM, Sally Ritchie and Lynn Worcester Jones, PhD, MusicEdConnect, April, May and June 2020.

  • 2019

    “When Our Students Inspire Others: The Socially Conscious Piano Studio” NCKP 2019.

  • 2015-2020

    Music Reading Classes for the Choral Singer; Newburyport Choral Society, 2015-2020.

  • 2018-2020

    “The Community Involved Piano Studio”, MTNA (local chapters, MA, NH, PA). 2018-2022

  • 2017

    “El Sistema’s Inspired Joy of Community in the Piano Studio”, NCKP 2017.

  • October 2015

    “Using Silent Movie Music to Inspire Expressivity”, NCKP 2013 and NAFME National In-Service Conference, October 2015.

  • 2011-2013

    “Students’ Misreading of Music Scores”, MTNA (local chapters, MA, NH). 2011-2013