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I earned degrees in theory and piano from the University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music. I perform annually for the Tuesday Morning Music Club in Springfield and play solo recitals, as well as chamber music, in the Amherst area.

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I received a BA in Music from Brown University , and Master's Degree in Piano Performance and the Creative Arts in Education from the Longy School of Music and Lesley College . I have studied the Taubman approach with Mary Moran and Edna Golandsky since 1992. I am a certified Associate and an Adjunct Faculty member of the Golandsky Piano Institute. I have been teaching and performing solo and chamber music in the New England/ New York region since 1978. I have 4 self-produced CD's featuring my performances of solo and four-hand piano music. In addition to maintaining my private studio, I teach piano at Northampton Community Music Center. I have taught at Greenfield Community College, Eaglebrook School, Art Space and the Academy at Charlemont.

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Studied jazz piano with jazz greats Jaki Byard (formerly of the Charlie Mingus group), Don Friedman, and Hod O’Brien. Studied classical theory and composition at Queens College, NYC. Performed with many jazz groups in the early 1980s. As musical theater director of the Off-Off Broadway Castillo Theater in NYC (1993-2001) arranged music for over 20 productions, led a small pit band, wrote scores for 3 original musicals, and performed on CD recording of Sally and Tom: The American Way. Currently the bandleader and keyboard player for the R&B group The Soul Sensations and keyboard player for jazz trio Agua Dulce.

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I homeschooled my children for eight years, directed a children’s choir, and taught at a multi-age learning center, and ran two successful piano studios in Ithaca, NY, and Bennington, VT, before moving with my family to the Pioneer Valley in the Fall of 2009. I am a life-long pianist, beginning piano study at 7 years old. I studied with Dr. Pamela Perry through high school, receiving the Chopin Piano Award. Majoring in Music Industry, I continued piano study in college at Colorado Women’s College and at the University of Colorado. I also play guitar and am a novice on the hammered dulcimer. I have accompanied choral groups over the years, but teaching piano remains my first love.

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BA in Piano, M.A. in Composition from the University of Missouri. Summer study at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, where I attended lectures by Nadia Boulanger. I also studied with Henry Cowell at Mills College and with Darius Milhaud at New York University. I have composed songs, choral works, chamber works, symphonies, operas, and works for dance. My ballad opera, "Around the Greenwood Tree" premiered in Bangkok, Thailand in1966. A recent work, "Voices for Freedom and Peace," is representative of my passion to promote social and environmental awareness through music. Of my awards, I value most the MacDowell Colony Fellowships and Fulbright Lectureship to India.

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B.A., Smith College; M.A., Arts Education, Goddard College. I have been a performing artist and arts educator for ten years and have taught private piano lessons for six years. I have studied diverse teaching methods to better serve each student’s unique way of learning.

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Concert Performer, Piano Teacher, Concertmaster and chamber ensemble soloist at Rostov-on-Don State Rachmaninoff Conservatory , Russia . Piano Teacher and concertmaster, graduate of Rostov-on-Don College of Arts. Participated as both soloist and concertmaster in the creation of a chamber duet consisting of violin and piano, receiving first place in the local competition 1999. Prepared students for various competitions, taught pedagogy to other music educators.

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Studied at Emerson College and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. Became fully certified Orff Schulwerk music teacher through NYU and taught classroom music in NYC for 20 years, including preK music and movement at the Bloomingdale House of Music and elementary music classes in a Harlem public school. I volunteered extensively designing recorder and music programs. I earned my B.A. degree at UWW at UMass in a combined teaching and behavioral studies program. Presently I substitute teach in the Amherst and Hill Town schools any and all subjects from preK through HS. I have taught piano privately for over 30 years and am now trying to replenish my student load which I allowed to dwindle while at UMass.

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Concert pianist and teacher. Have taught on the piano faculties at Smith College, UMass, Seton Hall University, and currently at Westfield State College. Current ensembles include Blue Door with cellist Arthur Cook, Blue Door Chamber Music on Cape Cod, and the Eckert/ Gilwood Piano Duo in NYC. Received a B.F.A. degree from SUNY Purchase, an M.M. degree from SUNY Stony Brook, with further studies as a Tanglewood Fellow. Teachers include Richard Goode and Gilbert Kalish.

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B.A. in Piano Performance (UNH), M.A. in Ethno musicology (UWash), Ph.D. in Music. Ed. (NYU). Composed for dance companies in Seattle and NYC., Studied jazz at Berklee. I am on the piano faculty of Northampton Community Music Center and I perform regularly in piano recitals and on electric bass with rock/jazz bands. I also run a production company composing for personal CDs, soundtracks and commercials.

Elizabeth Haymaker
85 Williams Street
Northampton , MA 01060
413-586-6704
elizabethhaymakerpiano@yahoo.com

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B.A. in Music, Vassar College . M.Mus in Piano Pedagogy, The Hartt School . Musical Director, The Lisa Leizman Dance Company. Teacher of individual and class piano at the Hartt School , its Community Division and in my private studio. Also, I am an active local soloist, accompanist and chamber musician.

Elise Jackendoff
170 Wildflower Drive
Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-1147
elisebj@earthlink.net

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Undergraduate work at Peabody Conservatory. B.A. in music from Brandeis University. Certificate from Hochschule fur Music, Freiburg, Germany. M.M. in Piano Performance and Theory, University of Michigan. Prize winner at Juilliard, Peabody, and Brandeis. I have taught at Phillips Exeter Academy, and was on the faculty of the Longy School of Music for 26 years. My teachers and coaches include Leon Fleisher, Russell Sherman, Ruth Slenczynska, Charles Fisher, Madeline Foley, Robert Koff, Roman Totenberg, Edith Picht-Axenfeld and Aurele Nicolet among others. Collaborative piano recitals throughout the U.S.A. and in Germany. Recordings on SEDA label. Currently, adjunct piano faculty, U.Mass, Amherst.

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I also teach music at Westfield State College. I have a Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.) from Oberlin Conservatory, and a Master’s of Music (M.M. with Hon.) from New England Conservatory of Music. Since 1995 I have taught music to every level and every age group.

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Concert pianist (venues including Boston, New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Recital Hall, colleges/universities, festivals U.S. and abroad) in solo recitals, piano soloist with orchestras, chamber music and lecture-recitals. Mount Holyoke College piano faculty and private teacher. B.Mus in Piano Performance from Oberlin College Conservatory, Master's degree from The Juilliard School.

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B.M. Magna cum Laude in Music Education, Hartt School of Music. M.M. in Piano Performance, New England Conservatory. National chamber music competition winner. Extensive performing experience in Boston area and internationally with cellist Andrew Mark, presenting concerts, lectures and master classes in piano and chamber music. Piano faculty, UMass Amherst and Deerfield Academy.

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B.Mus.Ed., UMass -- Piano Performance with Swiss pianist, Fernande Kaiser. Music Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France –-Analysis with Nadia Boulanger and piano with Jean Casedesus. Surrounded by music and concertizing musicians all my life!

My B.A. in Music Composition is from Yale. I have been a songwriter/composer, choir director, producer, arranger, accompanist, saloon singer, copyist and classroom teacher. In 2009, the Dayton Philharmonic premiered my "Songs of Rumi", a 30-minute piece for chamber orchestra and chorus. I grew up in Northampton, and moved back to my hometown in 2010. I lead the Peace In The Valley Community Choir at the Northampton Community Music Center. My piano teachcing career began only recently when I discovered the Simply Music method. My students' ages range from 7 to 80.

The piano and I were inseparable from the age of eight onward, through three college degree programs: B.M. in Piano Performance, Univ. Of Colorado, M.M. ion Piano at the University of Redlands, Doctoral studies in Music Theory from the University of Michigan. I have taught piano for twenty-five years and for the last ten, Alexander Technique, which is a method for increasing ease and balance in physical performance, I bring to my teaching a keen interest in the body-mind connection and a sensitivity to the inner landscape of my students.

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I have had a great deal of performing and teaching experience throughout New England and New York. I received my B.A. in Jazz Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a concentration in Jazz piano and improvisation. My teachers included Billy Taylor, Yusef Lateef, Andy LaVerne and Kenny Werner. I also studied extensively with the renowned music educator Charlie Banacos until his passing in 2009. My private music lessons are held in my studio in Amherst and at the Northampton Community Music Center in Northampton. My latest CD is entitled “From My World” and features an all-acoustic solo piano setting recorded at the UMass Fine Arts Center. In addition, I am a nationally certified massage therapist.

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Bachelor of Music Ed. Degree with concentration in piano and voice from Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam. I have taught and performed for over 30 years. Along with piano, I have also taught Kindermusik classes, children's choirs and voice. As a jazz vocalist I perform throughout New England with jazz bands ranging from intimate jazz combos to large swing orchestras. I am also a church accompanist on piano and organ.

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I received my B.A. Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and an M.A. in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley College. Before finally becoming a piano teacher, I was a therapist, art teacher and painter and lived for 10 years in Germany and Israel. I studied the piano privately for 15 years with Sylvia Chambless and Eugenie Malek.

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I studied piano throughout childhood and adolescence. As a student of Dr. Cassandra Carr, I participated in many competitions and recitals including the Seattle Young Artists' Music Festival, Northwest Solo-Ensemble Competition, Cascade Youth Symphonies, and an MTNA Composition Competition. I studied for two years with Prof. Peter Takacs at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Presently I am an accompanist for the Amherst Ballet School (where my compositions have been featured in performances) and the Five College Dance Department, and have taught piano lessons in the Pioneer Valley since January 2008.

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Double major in piano performance and composition with B. Of Mus. From Boston University in composition. Master of Music from Boise State University in music education with an emphasis on composition. Accompanist and piano and voice teacher at Suffield Academy and private music instructor in Southampton. Also, alto soloist and section leader at Westfield’s First Congregational Church and alto in Novi Cantori. Accompanist for voice teachers and recitals as well as coaching and accompanying for soloists.

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I teach and perform for a living. I have taught piano since 1980 and I am also the pianist, flutist, manager and founder of Klezamir, a five-piece klezmer band playing Jewish music, jazz, rock and a variety of other styles. I also direct the Valley Klezmer Orchestra, an ensemble open to the community. I have a Bachelor of Music from the University of Michigan, and certifications in Orff, Suzuki and Music Education from UMass. I also have five self published recordings.

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BA in Music cum laude from Lowell University. Further studies with Donald Smith of the New England Conservatory of Music. Taught public school music in Holyoke, MA, and have been teaching piano for 30 years. Extensive 40-year performing career. LSSE Theater pianist. ARMS choral accompanist. Staff songwriter/composer at Yankee Candle Co., and Juggler Music. Arranger, AAA Recording, Boston, MA.

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I earned degrees at the Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University, receiving the Rudolph Serkin and Pi Kappa Lambda Piano Awards and winning concerto competitions at Interlochen and Indiana University. I am a Professor of Piano at UMass-Amherst where I head the Piano Program and am the Orchestral Pianist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. I have several solo and collaborative recordings and recently appeared as soloist with the west Point Military Band in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue .

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B.M. from Columbia University Teachers College. Studied with Rhosina Lhevinne, Eduard Steuermann, Nigel Coxe, and the Dorothy Taubman Institute among others. Formerly associated with UMass Performing Arts Dept., Smith College, Holyoke Community College and Greenfield Community College. I am now maintaining a private studio.

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I have a B.A. in Music from Bennington College with additional studies at Juilliard. I taught at the Riverdale Country Music School in NYC and the Leeds School here in Massachusetts. I have been an accompanist for many years, performing in NYC as well as here in the Valley for individuals, choral ensembles and ballet classes. I am currently the accompanist for Eurythmy classes and middle school chorus at the Hartsbrook Waldorf School in Hadley, MA.

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I teach piano privately, at the Williston Northampton School, and at Northampton Community Music Center, where I also co-direct the adult and youth Chamber Music Connection program, as well as the Summer Chamber Program for Teens. At NCMC I also co-facilitate a monthly Piano Connection class for adult pianists. I perform in chamber music and piano 4-hands recitals several times a year at NCMC and other schools and colleges in the Pioneer Valley area. I hold a B.A. in Piano Performance and Music Education from Marlboro College, and a M.M. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy and Music Education from UMass/Amherst.