Where I talk, where I publish, my awards

Lectures and Publications

<B><font color=”#FFFFFF”>Lectures:</font></B>
<ul><li>MTNA National Convention,Presentation:  High-tech Retention Tools:  4 Simple Ways to Maintain and Increase Student Interest in Piano Lessons Through Technology</li><li>MTNA National Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah Presentation:  Transferring the Steps of Interactive Teaching to Technology</li><li>TMEA State Convention, Poster Session The Effect of Sequenced MIDI Based Instruction on Rhythm, Pitch Accuracy, Performance Continuity and Pitch Direction of Beginning Piano Students</li><li>College Music Society/Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri Presentation:  The Creation of a Multimedia Web Database for the Selection of 20th Century Intermediate Piano Repertoire</li><li>Sam Houston State University, Texas Tips and Tools for Teaching Class Piano Using the Text “Piano for the Developing Musician”, 5th Edition, Hilley and Olson, Authors.</li><li>TMEA State Convention, Poster Session The Effect of Multimedia on Group Piano Teaching </li><li>West Texas A&M Student Research Conference Research presentation:  Music in the Meiji Period:  Musical Growth as related to the introduction of the Tonal System of the West</li><li>MTNA State Convention One of three Texas Music students chosen to do a teaching demonstration within a Master-class setting</li></ul>
<B><font color=”#FFFFFF”>Publications:</font></B>
<ul><li>Keyboard Companion Perspectives in Pedagogy</li><li>American Music Teacher Review:  Piano Virtuoso, 1.0 Instructor Edition</li><li>American Music Teacher Review:  A Lighter Shade of Christmas</li><li>Roland Piano Educator The Effect of Sequenced MIDI Based Instruction on Rhythm, Pitch Accuracy, Performance Continuity and Pitch Direction of Beginning Piano Students </li><li>Piano Pedagogy Forum Using the Internet to Create Multimedia Databases for Repertoire Selection </li><li>isong.com (distributed by Hal Leonard),instructional CD-ROMs Easy Classical Piano, Volumes I and II, Popular Classical Piano, Glen Gould Plays Bach</li><li>The University of Texas, Interactive Multimedia Development, The Current State of Audio Technology</li><li>Web Design Team and Digital Video Leader for “Alien Rescue”,interactive Science Program created by the UT Education Dept.</li></ul>
<B><font color=”#FFFFFF”>Awards:</font></B>
<ul><li>Graduate Travel Award </li><li>Meadows Artist scholarship</li><li>Eubie Blake Ragtime Scholarship</li><li>Paige Prize in Piano Performance</li><li>Sanders Prize for Piano Pedagogy</li><li>Mattie Jennie Music Trust Fund Scholarship</li><li>Jewel H. Storey Music Scholarship</li><li>President’s Scholarship</li><li>National AAL Scholarship</li><li>Texas Bass Music Scholarship</li><li>Mu Phi Epsilon Scholarship</li></ul>

Lectures:

  • MTNA National Convention,Presentation:  High-tech Retention Tools:  4 Simple Ways to Maintain and Increase Student Interest in Piano Lessons Through Technology
  • MTNA National Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah Presentation:  Transferring the Steps of Interactive Teaching to Technology
  • TMEA State Convention, Poster Session The Effect of Sequenced MIDI Based Instruction on Rhythm, Pitch Accuracy, Performance Continuity and Pitch Direction of Beginning Piano Students
  • College Music Society/Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri Presentation:  The Creation of a Multimedia Web Database for the Selection of 20th Century Intermediate Piano Repertoire
  • Sam Houston State University, Texas Tips and Tools for Teaching Class Piano Using the Text “Piano for the Developing Musician”, 5th Edition, Hilley and Olson, Authors.
  • TMEA State Convention, Poster Session The Effect of Multimedia on Group Piano Teaching
  • West Texas A&M Student Research Conference Research presentation:  Music in the Meiji Period:  Musical Growth as related to the introduction of the Tonal System of the West
  • MTNA State Convention One of three Texas Music students chosen to do a teaching demonstration within a Master-class setting

Publications:

  • Keyboard Companion Perspectives in Pedagogy
  • American Music Teacher Review:  Piano Virtuoso, 1.0 Instructor Edition
  • American Music Teacher Review:  A Lighter Shade of Christmas
  • Roland Piano Educator The Effect of Sequenced MIDI Based Instruction on Rhythm, Pitch Accuracy, Performance Continuity and Pitch Direction of Beginning Piano Students
  • Piano Pedagogy Forum Using the Internet to Create Multimedia Databases for Repertoire Selection
  • isong.com (distributed by Hal Leonard),instructional CD-ROMs Easy Classical Piano, Volumes I and II, Popular Classical Piano, Glen Gould Plays Bach
  • The University of Texas, Interactive Multimedia Development, The Current State of Audio Technology
  • Web Design Team and Digital Video Leader for “Alien Rescue”,interactive Science Program created by the UT Education Dept.

Awards:

  • Graduate Travel Award
  • Meadows Artist scholarship
  • Eubie Blake Ragtime Scholarship
  • Paige Prize in Piano Performance
  • Sanders Prize for Piano Pedagogy
  • Mattie Jennie Music Trust Fund Scholarship
  • Jewel H. Storey Music Scholarship
  • President’s Scholarship
  • National AAL Scholarship
  • Texas Bass Music Scholarship
  • Mu Phi Epsilon Scholarship