Lynn Worcester Jones

Lynn Worcester Jones is a dedicated educator, performer and scholar and serves as Assistant Professor, Keyboard Area Coordinator at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She has recently published several articles in American Music Teacher and the Piano Magazine on topics from compositions by women, to music advocacy in higher education and developing self-efficacy in pianists. Lynn is regularly invited to present at national conferences and currently serves on the AMT editorial committee.

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Teaching Contemporary Piano Techniques to Intermediate Students with Alexina Louie’s Star Light, Star Bright

Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question We would like to thank Lynn Worcester Jones for this insightful article on teaching Alexina Louie’s Star Light, Star Bright. Want to learn more about music by women composers? Check out our course, Hidden Gems: Four Centuries of...

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Teaching Contemporary Piano Techniques to Intermediate Piano Students with Alexina Louie’s Star Light, Star Bright

Winter 2022; Vol. 13, No. 4

Introducing intermediate piano students to twentieth-and twenty-first-century compositional techniques and styles is essential, especially as we move from Gen Z students to those in Generation Alpha (born in the early 2010s). In Star Light, Star Bright (1995),1 both generations will find an established, musically rich collection...

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Repertoire Swaps: Achieving Diversity and Inclusion through an Effective Repertoire Selection Device

Autumn 2020; Vol. 12, No. 4

Quality repertoire selection is crucial for helping our piano students move from the intermediate to advanced levels, and the same is true for university-level students. Yet, persuading teachers to use excellent repertoire composed by women and other minorities remains a challenge. As teachers, we often...

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Spencer Myer: A 21st-Century American Pianist

January 2019; Vol. 11, No. 1

Setting the Scene Spencer Myer emerged as a concert pianist of note upon winning three important competitions shortly after the turn of this century. In 2004, he placed first in the UNISA International Piano Competition in South Africa, then in 2006 he won the Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American...