Phyllis Alpert Lehrer is known internationally as a teacher, performer, clinician, author and adjudicator. She is professor emerita of piano at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J. She now serves on the artist faculty of the Westminster Conservatory, the community music school associated with Westminster. A founding member of Young Audiences of New Jersey and the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance, she has presented regularly at conferences of the Music Teachers National Association, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, the European Piano Teachers Association and New Jersey Music Teachers Association. Phyllis Lehrer has contributed several chapters to A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers: Strategies to Develop the Mind and Body for Optimal Performance and co-authored The Inner Game of Music Keyboard Workbook with Barry Green. Her collaboration of over 35 years with piano partner, Ena Bronstein Barton, includes two CDs, featuring duets and duo piano works. Ms. Lehrer received a B.A. with music concentration from the University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music and an M.S. in piano from the Juilliard School of Music. Honored as a Music Teachers National Association Foundation Fellow in 2007, Ms. Lehrer was voted New Jersey Music Teachers Association Teacher of the Year for 2012-2013. In 2019 she received the Westminster Merit Award from the Westminster Alumni Association.