The Frances Clark Center For Keyboard Pedagogy

	Jennifer Snow, is the first full-time Executive Director-CEO for the Frances Clark Center. Snow is a former Vice President, Teacher Education for the Royal Conservatory and previously was a member of the keyboard faculty at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She holds a doctorate degree from Northwestern University.
	Pamela Pike is Editor in Chief/Chief Content Director for Piano Magazine. She serves as the Barineau Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Louisiana State University. As an award-winning author, Dr. Pike has published over three dozen scholarly articles, and her book, Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching: Transforming Group Theory into Teaching Practice, is published by Routledge. Dr. Pike has presented papers and workshops at conferences throughout Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, and North and South America.
	Rebecca Mergen Pennington is Administrative Director of the New School for Music Study. She has been a member of the faculty since 2007. Dr. Pennington has been a frequent performer in faculty recitals, contributed to teacher development through blog posts, teaching videos, and work at the NSMS Summer Seminar, and teaches the popular Piano Detectives Club class for kindergarten students. She holds a DMA and MM in Piano Performance from the University of Kansas, and a BM in Music Education from Concordia College.
	Andrea McAlister is Director of Digital Content and Senior Editor for Piano Magazine. She is Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Dr. McAlister is in frequent demand as a clinician and has recently presented lectures on the language of teaching and educational technology at the MTNA Conference and the International Society for Music Education Conference.
	Shana Kirk is the Director of Digital Operations for the Frances Clark Center. Kirk leads all areas of digital operations and advancement for the Center including the internationally recognized publication the Piano Magazine, Teacher Education Webinars, teaching repertoire series Inspiring Artistry and From the Artist Bench, online Teacher Education Courses, and new initiatives.
	Sara Ernst is Director of Teacher Engagement for The Frances Clark Center. She serves as Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate pedagogy courses, Dr. Ernst coordinates group piano, directs the piano preparatory program, and teaches applied piano.
	Craig Sale, NCTM, is Director of Online Courses and Senior Editor for Piano Magazine. Before retiring, he was Director of the Preparatory & Community Piano Program at Concordia University Chicago, where he also taught courses in piano pedagogy. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, and a Professional Teaching Certificate from The New School for Music Study, where he received his pedagogical training from Frances Clark.
	Anna Beth Rucker is the Manager of Operations and Corporate Relations for the Frances Clark Center and Associate Director of NCKP: The Piano Conference. She is a private piano teacher in Ann Arbor, MI and holds a Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy from the University of South Carolina. She previously worked as Assistant Director of the Southeastern Piano Festival.
	Esther Hayter is the Communications Manager and Associate Director of Conferences for The Frances Clark Center. She also teaches at the New School for Music Study in Kingston, New Jersey. She received a Masters of Music degree in Piano Pedagogy from Texas Christian University, where she studied under Dr. Tamas Ungar and Dr. Ann Gipson. She also holds a Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Washington State University, where she studied with Drs. Jeff and Karen Savage.
	Owen Zhou is the Audio and Video Coordinator for the Frances Clark Center. He is a pianist and teacher based in Denver, Colorado. He received piano performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, and University of Colorado at Boulder. Owen made his New York debut in 2012 with the Scriabin Piano Concerto. He also runs an independent audio & video production business and is an avid skier in his spare time.
	Trevor Thornton, Administrative Support for the Frances Clark Center, is a Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at the New School for Music Study, where he completed the Comprehensive Practical Teaching Program in 2019. He holds degrees from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, where he studied with Dr. Robert Weirich and Dr. Diane Petrella. An avid collaborator, he has played for choirs and ballet classes with Princeton Boychoir, Kansas City Ballet, and Rutgers University.
	Michaela Boros serves as Digital Support for the Frances Clark Center. She is currently pursuing a DMA in Piano Pedagogy at the University of South Carolina, studying with Scott Price, Sara Ernst, and Phillip Bush. Michaela works as Administrative Assistant and piano instructor at UofSC’s community music school, holds an accompanying assistantship, and is President of the university’s MTNA Collegiate Chapter. She has presented at NCKP and MTNA conferences, and won Runner-Up in the 2019 Piano Magazine Collegiate Writing Contest.
	Peter Groch, Administrative Support for the Frances Clark Center, is a faculty member at the New School for Music Study in Kingston, NJ. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma. He studied piano with Dr. Rochelle Sennet and Dr. Igor Lipinski, and Pedagogy with Dr. Chirstos Tsitsaros, Dr. Barbara Fast, and Dr. Jane Magrath.
	Nathan MacAvoy, Administrative Support for the Frances Clark Center, earned a DMA in Piano Pedagogy and a MM in Piano Performance from the University of South Carolina following a BM in Music Education from Bob Jones University. He currently serves as adjunct piano faculty at Bob Jones University and Columbia International University and teaches locally in Columbia.