Event:

Putting the Icing on the Cake: A Look at Celebration Series Perspectives® Intermediate to Advanced Levels

Directed at the pedagogical needs and interests of intermediate to advanced level students, Marvin Blickenstaff will guide teachers through outstanding selections of piano literature and the supporting materials of Celebration Series Perspectives®. Celebration Series Perspectives® serves as the official resource for the piano requirements of the Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program.

Biography:

MARVIN BLICKENSTAFF is known throughout North America as a master teacher, lecturer, and performer. As a faculty member of International Workshops for fifteen years, he lectured and performed in Canada and Europe. With Louise Bianchi and Lynn Freeman Olson, he co-authored a series for beginning piano students entitled Music Pathways. He has served on the editorial board of the American Music Teacher and as an Associate Editor of Keyboard Companion. He is President of the Board of Trustees of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy and serves on the Executive Planning Committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.

Marvin Blickenstaff’s teaching career is associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught for nine years, and with Goshen College, Indiana, where he taught for over twenty years. He now resides in the greater Philadelphia area and teaches at The New School for Music Study and in his home studio. He has been recognized by The Royal Conservatory with an Honorary Fellowship (2007) and by the Music Teachers National Association with its highest honor, the Achievement Award (2009).