Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy Hires Editor in Chief/Chief Content Director for Clavier Companion
PRESS RELEASE 26 JUNE 2018 Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy Hires Editor in Chief/Chief Content Director for Clavier Companion. The Frances Clark Center is pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Pamela Pike as the new Editor in Chief/Chief Content Director for Clavier Companion,...
Elvina Pearce Donates Transformative Gift to The Frances Clark Center
PRESS RELEASE 01 MAY 2018The Frances Clark Center is thrilled to announce the generous and transformative gift received from renowned teacher Elvina Truman Pearce. This unprecedented legacy gift has been donated by Mrs. Pearce to advance the mission of the Center through meaningful and high...
Frances Clark Center appoints new Director of NCKP
PRESS RELEASE 12 DECEMBER 2017 The Frances Clark Center is pleased to announce that Ryan Greene has been promoted to the position of Director, NCKP and Director of Digital Operations for the Frances Clark Center. Greene is currently Associate Director, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and has handled...
Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy Hires Full-Time Executive Director
PRESS RELEASE 25 OCTOBER 2017 The Frances Clark Center is pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Jennifer Snow as its first full-time Executive Director, effective November 1, 2017. Snow is a former Vice President, Teacher Education for the Royal Conservatory and previously was a member of the...
Update on Dr. Edwin Gordon’s NCKP keynote
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2015Written by Sam Holland The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, wish to extend our sincere best wishes to Dr. Edwin Gordon who has been diagnosed with acute leukemia. Dr. Gordon was to...
PIANO PEDAGOGY FORUM MOVES TO NEW HOME
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Frances Clark Center Acquires Prestigious Online Journal The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy is pleased to announce that it has acquired the Piano Pedagogy Forum internet journal.Created in 1998 by Scott Price as the first online journal in the piano pedagogy field, the journal...
LOUISE GOSS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1926-2014 Louise Goss, one of world’s leading figures in the field of piano pedagogy, co-founder of the New School for Music Study, and editor of two seminal series on teaching piano, and founder of The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, died...
NEW SCHOOL STUDENTS WIN AWARDS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Young Pianists Garner National Attention The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy (FCCKP) recognizes the following outstanding musicians at The New School for Music Study on their recent achievements in piano study. Three students at The New School for Music Study (NSMS)...
NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC STUDY WELCOMES COMMUNITY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Well-Known Piano School Hosts Open House The New School For Music Study (NSMS) announces its first-annual Open House and Welcome Night, scheduled for Thursday August 29, 2013 from 4-8PM. NSMS is located just 5 minutes north of Princeton on Nassau/Route 27 in...
NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC STUDY APPOINTS NEW LEADER
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rebecca Pennington Named Interim Administrative Director The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy announces the appointment of Rebecca Pennington as Interim Administrative Director of The New School for Music Study. Pennington was appointed to the position following the resignation of current Administrative...
THE FRANCES CLARK CENTER CONGRATULATES SARA ERNST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dr. Ernst Accepts Position at the University of South Carolina The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy announces the resignation of Sara Ernst as Administrative Director of The New School for Music Study. Ernst has accepted a position at the University of...
Piano News from Around the Globe
Winter 2022; Vol. 13, No. 4
Winner of 18th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition Announced On October 20, Canadian pianist Bruce (Xiaoyu) Lui won first prize at the 18th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Delayed by one year due to the pandemic, Liu competed against twelve finalists, performing the...
September 2018: Preludes
September 2018; Vol. 10, No. 5
Piano Competitions Cooper International Competition Winners Announced Seventeen-year-old Tony Siqi Yun (from Canada) recently won the 2018 Cooper Competition performing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 in the concerto finals with The Cleveland Orchestra. Seventeen-year-old Kai-Min Chang (from Taiwan) placed second,...
September/October 2017: Recent Research
September 2017; Vol. 9, No. 5
The rhythm of grammar Neuroscientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Music Cognition Lab have identified a correlation between good rhythm skills and a strong grasp of grammar in school-aged children. According to the lab’s director Dr. Reyna Gordon, rhythmic patterns and sentence structures are similar...
News & Notes Nov/Dec 2017: Falling Pianos and Extreme Minimalism
November 2017; Vol. 9, No. 6
Falling pianos At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the annual “Piano Drop” has been a celebrated event for more than forty years. According to Steve Annear of The Boston Globe, “It’s a celebration that not only rallies the community together to participate in something unusually destructive… but...