PIANO ACADEMY FACULTY
2009

KAREN TAYLOR, director of the Piano Academy, has a wealth of experience in teaching, performance, and research. She specializes in working with gifted young musicians and is widely esteemed for her diagnostic skills and dynamic, integrative style of teaching. Dr. Taylor is an assistant professor of music at Indiana University, where she directs the Young Pianists Program and pedagogy studies. She was adjunct associate professor of piano at DePauw University from 1991-2004. The recipient of many teaching excellence awards, including Indiana Music Teacher of the Year, Dr. Taylor has taught numerous regional and national competition prizewinners. She has performed across the Midwest and abroad, and has presented more than 80 master classes, lectures and workshops.

CHRISTOPHER HARDING is Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Michigan. The winner of many national and international competitions, he performs across North America and Asia as a frequent recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra. He presents yearly lectures and master classes across China, Korea and Taiwan for major conservatories and schools of music.

RUTH MORROW, NCTM, is the current Dolores P. Bolin and D. Phil and Aurora S. Bolin Chair of Piano and Chair of the Department of Music at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. She currently teaches piano, piano pedagogy, keyboard literature, music literature, and music history, and has previously taught basic music, class piano, and opera workshop. Additionally, she teaches private students from the Wichita Falls area and judges throughout Texas for various music organizations.

Dr. Morrow is a consummate solo performer and collaborative pianist, giving approximately fifty concerts annually. She is equally at home with the music of living composers as that of the established masters. She gives master classes and lectures in addition to performing, and enjoys working with students to make them more at ease onstage. Recent performances and master classes have been at Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon), Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), Midwestern State University (Wichita Falls, Texas), King George the Fifth, 6th Form College (Southport, England), and the University of Paris St. Denis (Paris, France).

Dr. Morrow holds degrees from Indiana University (DM, Piano Performance and Pedagogy), the Eastman School of Music (MM, Piano; MA, Musicology), and Whitman College (BA, Music, Philosophy). With a background spanning all musical styles and including performances throughout the United States and Europe, Dr. Morrow remains in demand as recitalist, collaborative pianist, and lecturer on topics from ragtime to movement. A founding faculty member of the Indiana University Piano Academy, she teaches piano at the Academy each summer, and is a Certified Instructor of the Feldenkrais® Method. In addition to her numerous musical endeavors, Dr. Morrow is an avid marathon runner.

ALICE RYBAK, is on the faculty of the University of Denver's Lamont School, where she teaches piano and directs the accompanying program. She has performed throughout the country, notably at Weill-Carnegie Hall, New York's Town Hall and the 92nd Street Y, and in Europe and the Far East as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and chamber artist. She concertizes with the piano duo Quattro Mani, who have numerous recordings with Bridge Records and are Steinway artists.

DANIEL SCHENE, director of the Keyboard Studies Program at Webster University (St. Louis), combines a busy schedule of concert engagements with teaching piano performance. He has appeared throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist and chamber musician, collaborating with cellist Zara Nelsova among others. Mr. Schene has made a special study of playing motions as a source of, and a solution to, technical problems. He records for CRI.

GREGORY SIOLES, Professional-in-Residence in Piano at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge), has concertized across three continents, appearing in recital at such venues as the Kennedy Center, London's Purcell Room and the Shanghai Conservatory (China). An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with famed artist Edgar Meyer, Barry Tuckwell and the Guarneri Quartet among others. He has taught at the University of Maryland, Peabody and the Levine School (Washington D.C.), and records for Centaur.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

MATTHEW GIANFORTE: Pianist Matthew Gianforte enjoys an active career as a soloist and collaborator, having performed across the United States and abroad. A native of Chicago, he received the Bachelor of Music degree from The Catholic University of America, where he was a pupil of Marilyn Neeley. He continued his studies with Karen Shaw at Indiana University, where he earned the Master of Music and the Doctor of Music degrees. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Gianforte currently serves on the faculty at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN, and at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he is Coordinator of Secondary Piano. In addition to his collegiate teaching and administrative duties, Dr. Gianforte works with talented pre-college pianists at the IU Summer Piano Academy and the IU Young Pianists Program. Previously, he served as an Adjunct Lecturer and Associate Instructor at Indiana University, where he taught class and applied piano, and was Coordinator of Piano Accompanying.

ORLA McDONAGH, pianist, is the Director of the piano program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Orla graduated with degrees in piano performance from The Juilliard School and Indiana University before moving to Portland. With appearances in Europe, the U.S. and Canada, McDonagh is an active soloist, chamber musician and contemporary music practitioner and has a cello/piano duo with her sister, Irish cellist Ailbhe McDonagh. Since her arrival in Oregon, Orla has performed with Portland-based contemporary groups “Third Angle” and ”fEARnoMUSIC” and she is a current member of the Lewis & Clark College Faculty New Music Ensemble Friends of Rain. At Lewis & Clark College McDonagh teaches piano lessons and performance classes in addition to courses in Music Theory, Aural Skills, Piano Literature and Piano Pedagogy. She is a frequent adjudicator and master class clinician in the Northwest and has given several pre-concert lectures for the Oregon Symphony. Orla has served on the Academy adjunct faculty since 1999.

KAZUHA NAKAHARA, pianist is an active and versatile performer and teacher. She gave her debut recital in Kashima Bunka-Kaikan (Japan) in 1997, and frequently returns to Japan for solo and chamber engagements. Since her professional orchestra debut with the Fort Worth Symphony (1999) as winner of the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute’s concerto competition, she has concertized as a solo recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra in Asia, Great Britain and at numerous venues in the Northeast and Midwest (U.S.). Her appearances during the 2009-10 concert season will include solo and trio engagements in New York, Boston, Indiana, and Ohio.

Dr. Nakahara has won top prizes in a number of competitions including the Buckeye (OH) Piano Competition (first prize), the Cleveland Philharmonic Concerto Competition (2nd prize), the Lake Erie (OH) Piano Competition (first prize) and more recently the Indiana University Concerto Competition (winner, performed Mozart’s Concerto K. 482 with the IU Chamber Orchestra). A very active and accomplished chamber musician, Ms. Nakahara has performed three times with her Nakahara/Fong/Whittington Trio in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall as winning ensemble of the Conservatory's Chamber Music Gala Competition. Her London-based Amaryllis Trio was a finalist in the Royal Overseas League Chamber Music Competition (2001). At that same competition, she was selected Best Chamber Music Pianist, an award that was bestowed on her in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Hall (London).

Dr. Nakahara recently completed her D.M. degree in Piano Performance at Indiana University, where she was a recipient of the prestigious Chancellor’s Fellowship. She holds B.M. and M. M. degrees in Piano Performance, both with Distinguished Achievement in Performance honors, from the New England Conservatory as well as a Performance Diploma from Royal Academy of Music (London). Her principal teachers have included Jean-Louis Haguenauer (at I.U.), Christopher Elton, Veronica Jochum and Verena Dambrans. She has performed in master classes of Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Stephen Kovacevich, Angela Hewitt, John O'Conor, Ann Schein, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Rebecca Penneys.

Dr. Nakahara currently serves on the faculties of Vincennes University (IN), where she is Adjunct Professor of Piano, and the Indiana University Young Pianists Program, where she teaches pre-college piano.

MASTER CLASS FACULTY

EDWARD AUER, professor of Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, has performed solo recitals and concerts in 30 countries, including the United States, Europe, Japan, Israel, and Australia. Professor Auer has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Detroit, Atlanta, and Baltimore symphonies; NHK Tokyo; RIAS Orchestra Berlin; Orchestre National Paris; and many others, collaborating with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Herbert Blomstedt, Sergiu Comissiona and Riccardo Chailly.

Auer grew up in Los Angeles, where he studied piano with Aube Tzerko, a protégé of Artur Schnabel, and composition with Leonard Stein, a Schoenberg student. A precocious chamber musician and the son of an accomplished amateur violist, he was playing the Mozart piano quartets and the Schumann quintet with his father and his friends at the ripe old age of eight. He won several competitions in the Los Angeles area, and frequently appeared in concerts there, both as soloist and in chamber music.

Auer's studies continued at the Juilliard School with Rosina Lhévinne and in Paris on a Fulbright Grant under Julius Katchen. Besides the Chopin Competition, Auer was a prizewinner in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Beethoven competition in Vienna and the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, and took First Prize in the Concours Marguerite Long in Paris. Now, years later, these and other contests regularly invite him to be on their juries. Edward Auer has long been recognized as a leading interpreter of the works of Chopin. As the first American to win a prize in the prestigious International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, he has returned to Poland for well over 20 concert tours, playing in every major city and with every major orchestra.

Auer has made a number of acclaimed recordings, many of them of the works of Chopin. He has recorded for RCA Japan, Toshiba EMI, Erato, Camerata, Town Hall, and other labels. He is currently working on completing his Chopin catalogue, and also recording piano works of Schubert and Fauré. Harris Goldsmith, reviewing the first volume (released in 2007) of his recording of Chopin's complete Nocturnes, wrote: "[H]is wonderfully poetic and seemingly spontaneously inspirational recreations not only remind us that Auer's eloquence and technical powers have deepened and attained additional communicative and interpretative mastery, but this new anthology undoubtedly takes an honored place alongside the greatest extant editions of these copiously recorded masterpieces. Auer has a knack of surpassing the listener's expectations by way of all sorts of felicitous turns of phrase and tempo, but thankfully, the details of his irrepressible individuality are never permitted to break the long line or in any way violate the di rigeur forward motion, direct ongoing vortex and inevitability of the diversified tone poems. Delicious niceties of tone and phrase abound, but-quite miraculously-these are never fussy or mannered Chopin performances. Bravissimo."

JONATHAN BISS, at 28 has already proven himself an accomplished and exceptional musician with a flourishing international reputation through his orchestral, solo and chamber music performances in North America and Europe and through his EMI Classics recordings. Noted for his prodigious technique, intriguing programs, artistic maturity and versatility, Mr. Biss performs a diverse repertoire ranging from Mozart and Beethoven, through the Romantics to Janácek and Schoenberg as well as works by contemporary composers including commissions from Leon Kirchner and Lewis Spratlan.

Since he made his New York Philharmonic debut in 2001, Jonathan Biss has appeared with the foremost orchestras of the U.S. and Europe, and gives recitals in major music capitals both here and abroad. This season Mr. Biss debuts with the Colorado Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Memphis Symphony, and makes return engagements with the Indianapolis, National, New Jersey, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia orchestras, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in its Schumann/ Mendelssohn Festival. Following the release of his EMI Classics recording of Mozart Piano Concertos 21 and 22 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, he joined Orpheus at Carnegie Hall in December and will play both concertos in a February tour with the orchestra to Italy, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and Slovenia.

Mr. Biss also debuts with six European orchestras-the Bilbao, NDR Hamburg, Northern Sinfonia, Philharmonia, Swedish Radio Symphony and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall-and will tour four Spanish cities (Pamplona, Zaragoza, Barcelona, and Castellon) this season. In July '09 he makes his NHK Orchestra debut with a tour of Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuyama, followed in August '09 by his Melbourne Symphony debut. His solo appearances in Europe include recitals in Gothenburg, Bilbao, London's Wigmore Hall, and his first performance at the Châtelet in Paris. In the U.S., he gives recitals New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, as well as several duo recitals with violinist Miriam Fried. He recently joined pianists Leon Fleisher, Yefim Bronfman and Katherine Jacobson in a program celebrating the 80th birthday of Mr. Fleisher.

Among his orchestral appearances last season were debuts with Cleveland, Dallas, Kansas City, San Diego, Toronto, City of Birmingham and BBC orchestras, as well as his Tokyo Symphony debut. He toured Austria with the Camerata Salzburg conducted by Sir Roger Norrington and Germany with the Academy of St. Martin the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner. He played almost a dozen recitals in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, as well as several chamber performances and duo concerts with violinist Miriam Fried and pianist Richard Goode. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Mr. Biss has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, is a frequent participant at the Marlboro Music Festival, and has toured with "Musicians from Marlboro". This past summer he joined Midori and cellist Johannes Moser in a two-week tour of Bavaria, London, Harrogate, Slovenia, Holland, Copenhagen, and Menorca.

Mr. Biss' newest album for EMI is Mozart Piano Concertos 21 and 22 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra recorded in a live performance at Queens College in New York. His last EMI Classics disc is an Edison Award-winning recital of Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Opp. 13, 28, 90, and 109. About the CD, Classic fm magazine remarked "Biss has the rare ability to make you sit up and take notice as if you were hearing a well-known piece for the very first time." His previous recordings were an all-Schumann recital consisting of the Fantasie in C, Op. 17, Arabeske in C, Op. 18 and Kreisleriana, Op. 16, which was recognized with a Diapason d'Or de l'année award, and a 2004 recording on EMI's Debut series of works by Beethoven and Schumann.

Jonathan Biss made his New York recital debut at the 92nd Street Y's Tisch Center for the Arts in 2000 and his New York Philharmonic debut under Kurt Masur that same season. He represents the third generation in a family of professional musicians that includes his grandmother Raya Garbousova, one of the first well-known female cellists (for whom Samuel Barber composed his Cello Concerto), as well as his parents, violinist Miriam Fried and violist/violinist Paul Biss. Growing up surrounded by music, Mr. Biss began his piano studies at age six and his first musical collaborations were with his mother and father. Mr. Biss studied at Indiana University with Evelyne Brancart and Karen Taylor, and at Curtis with Leon Fleisher.

Mr. Biss, named the winner of the Leonard Bernstein Award at the 2005 Schleswig-Holstein Festival, has won numerous other awards, including the 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, Wolf Trap's Shouse Debut Artist Award, the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 2003 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He was an artist-in-residence on American Public Media's Performance Today, was the first American chosen to participate in the BBC's New Generation Artist program, and was featured on the nationally telecast Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Leon Fleisher.

HANS BOEPPLE has been a featured soloist with distinguished orchestras since his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at age 10, Hans Boepple's concerto performances include the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Denver Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, Napa Symphony, and Santa Cruz Symphony. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Zubin Mehta, Minas Christian, Dennis de Coteau, and Corrick Brown.

With a solo recital career of over forty years, Hans Boepple is an honored member of the Steinway Piano International Artist Roster. A frequent guest artist on university and civic concert series across the United States, his performances have been broadcast by National Public Radio and Voice of America. Hans Boepple recorded the complete Beethoven Bagatelles for Orion Master Recordings, and his three recent recordings for the Kjos Music Company are now part of their Master Composer Collection of Piano Literature.

Mr. Boepple holds a Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and Performer's Certificate from Indiana University, Bloomington where he studied with renowned American pianist Sidney Foster. A former full-time member of the piano faculty at the Indiana University School of Music-Bloomington (l974-78) Boepple is a tenured, full Professor of Music at Santa Clara University (CA). He joined the SCU faculty in 1978 and served as chair of the department from 1995-2007.

His acclaimed skills as musician and master teacher extend further toward developing young artists at California Summer Music, a chamber music camp founded & directed by cellist Irene Sharp. A frequent master teacher at the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences, he was a guest speaker at the 2008 Portland International Piano Festival (Oregon). After his recital and master class for the I.U. Summer Piano Academy in June 2009, Mr. Boepple will be the guest artist at the 2009 Music Teacher's Association of California (MTAC) Convention in Santa Clara (California).

An important component of his work is to mentor other teachers on specific topics related to teaching young musicians. In demand as an adjudicator, lecturer, and master teacher, Mr. Boepple continues to balance demanding performance activities with those of a dedicated and successful teacher. His students have earned more an 150 state, national, and international awards.

READ GAINSFORD, Associate Professor of Piano at Florida State University (Tallahassee) is a native of New Zealand. He began full-time music study with top piano teachers, Janetta MacStay and Bryan Sayer, before receiving a grant from the Woolf Fisher Trust and the top prize in the Television New Zealand Young Musician of the Year. Gainsford then relocated to London, where he studied privately with Brigitte Wild, a protégée of Claudio Arrau, before winning a place in the Advanced Solo Studies course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Joan Havill, graduating with the prestigious Concert Recital Diploma (premier prix).

Read Gainsford has performed widely in the USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as soloist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. He has made successful solo debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, and has performed in many other venues, including the John F. Kennedy Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Centre, Fairfield Halls, Birmingham Town Hall and St-Martin-in-the-Fields. He has recorded for the Amoris label, BBC Radio Three, Radio New Zealand's Concert Programme, and has broadcast on national television in New Zealand, the UK and Yugoslavia. Among his major recent projects is a recording of Olivier Messiaen's monumental Vingt regards sur l'Enfant Jésus, a daunting work of over two hours duration that is seldom performed in its entirety, still less often recorded.

Gainsford moved to the United States in 1992 to enter the doctoral program at Indiana University, where he worked with Karen Shaw and Leonard Hokanson. Since that time he has been guest artist for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and has also given numerous recitals, concerto performances and master-classes. He has appeared at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival and the Music Festival of the Hamptons, and has taught several summers at the Heifetz International Music Institute. A member of the contemporary music group Ensemble X and the Garth Newel Chamber Players, Mr. Gainsford has also enjoyed working with such musicians as Jacques Zoon, William Vermuelen, Roberto Diaz, Eddy Vanoosthuyse and Luis Rossi.

Read Gainsford joined the Florida State University College of Music faculty in 2005. Previously he taught at Ithaca College (NY), where he received the college-wide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2004. He has presented many workshops for teachers in Taiwan and serves on Taiwan's International Piano Performance Exam Committee, consulting with music educators there in selecting repertoire for graded examinations, from beginning through advanced levels. He recently made recordings of the examination pieces, which aspiring Taiwanese piano students will receive along with their copies of the music. In 2008 he returned to New Zealand to serve as Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland, where he did his undergraduate studies.

JOSEPH KALICHSTEIN, acclaimed for the heartfelt intensity and technical mastery of his playing, enthralls audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, winning equal praise as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is also the first Chamber Music Advisor to the Kennedy Center, an appointment that grew out of his close association with the Center over many seasons. He has given solo recitals there, appeared many times with the National Symphony Orchestra, and played a major role in chamber music festivals devoted to Brahms and Beethoven. In 2004 Mr. Kalichstein was featured with the National Symphony at its season-opening concert commemorating Music Director Leonard Slatkin’s 60th birthday; he has also participated in the Ravinia Festival’s Mozart celebration, performing two of the piano concerti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon, Ravinia’s new music director.

His recent engagements include performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Boston Symphony,the London Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and return tours to Japan, Germany and Scandinavia. He continues to record and to play in music capitals worldwide with the famed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson piano trio, with whom he appeared in the opening month’s festivities of Carnegie’s new Zankel Hall. In March 2006, an emotional and musical highlight for Mr. Kalichstein: a special tour as soloist with the Juilliard orchestra under James DePriest, helping to celebrate his alma mater’s 100th birthday! A faculty member at Juilliard since 1983 in piano and chamber music, he was recently appointed holder of Juilliard's first endowed chair in Chamber Music Studies.

Born in Tel Aviv, Kalichstein came to the United States in 1962. His principal teachers included Joshua Shor in Israel and Edward Steuermann and Ilona Kabos at The Juilliard School. Prior to his 1969 Leventritt Award victory, he won the Young Concert Artists Auditions. As a result, he gave a heralded New York recital debut and, at the invitation of Leonard Bernstein, performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the New York Philharmonic in a nationally televised concert. Mr. Kalichstein has appeared with most of the major orchestras of the U.S. and Europe, collaborating with such celebrated conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnányi, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin and the late George Szell and Erich Leinsdorf. He has been enthusiastically received at the Helsinki, Edinburgh, Aspen, Prague, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Salzburg, and Verbier festivals. A favorite of New York concertgoers, Mr. Kalichstein has appeared in Carnegie Hall as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra and with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, in addition to giving several recitals on Carnegie Hall’s “Keyboard Virtuosi” series. He has collaborated with some of the world's great string quartets including the Emerson, Guarnieri and Juillard quartets. He has recorded for Vox, Arabesque, Chandos, Nimbus, Vanguard and Koch International Records. Recent releases include “The Romantic Piano,” on Audiofon, a two-disc set featuring works of C.P.E. Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schubert; and a performance of the Piano Concerto of Ellen Taafe Zwillich for Koch International, which is in the process of recording Zwilich's complete output.

NELITA TRUE made her debut at age seventeen with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall and her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall. Since then her career has taken her to the major cities of Western and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Iceland, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Canada, and to Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as to forty-nine states in America. She was a guest professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, performing and conducting master classes, and has visited the People's Republic of China twelve times for recitals and master classes. She has played recitals on French national television and on Australian national radio. Her most recent recital in Boston was cited as one of the "Ten Best Classical Performances of the Year."

Ms. True has been a jury member for the China International Piano Competition (Beijing), the Queen Sonja International Piano Competition (Oslo), the National piano Competition in Brazil, the Horowitz Competition (Kiev), the Concours de Musique in Canada, the PTNA (Tokyo), the Lev Vlassenko Competition in Australia, and the Gina Bachauer, New Orleans, Hilton Head, and William Kapell International Piano Competitions in the U.S.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan with Helen Titus, Ms. True went on to Juilliard to study with Sascha Gorodnitzki, and then earned the DMA with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory. In Paris, she studied with Nadia Boulanger on a Fulbright grant. Formerly Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, Ms. True is currently Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music. Many of her students have won top prizes at national and international competitions, including an unprecedented five First Prizes in national MTNA competitions. Ms. True was awarded the Certificate of Merit by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching at Eastman, the 2002 Achievement Award from MTNA, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from National Keyboard Pedagogy Conference (USA).

SH Productions of Kansas City produced a series of four videotapes, "Nelita True at Eastman," featuring her performances, lectures, and teaching. These videos are currently being seen on five continents. She has been the subject of feature articles in Clavier, Piano Today, The European Piano Teachers' Piano Journal, and was the subject of the cover story of Keyboard Companion. An interview with Ms. True appears in the latest edition of James Bastien's "How to Teach Piano Successfully," along with interviews with the legendary Rosina Lhevinne and Adele Marcus. Ms. True has been invited to record over 100 works for Advance, Mark, Educo, and Academy Records.