Michelle Cann is a leading interpreter of the piano music of Florence Price. She performed the New York City premiere of Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with The Dream Unfinished Orchestra in 2016. Her recording of the concerto with the New York Youth Symphony won a Grammy Award in 2023 for Best Orchestral Performance, and Michelle’s acclaimed debut solo album Revival, featuring music by Price and Margaret Bonds, was released in 2023. Michelle holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and an Artist’s Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music. She joined the Curtis piano faculty in 2020 as the inaugural Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies, and she is also on the piano faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. Her honors include the Sphinx Medal of Excellence and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. In 2024, she was named the inaugural Christel DeHaan Artistic Partner of the American Pianists Association.
John Bloomfield is a Kentucky native and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. An award-winning solo and chamber pianist, he earned a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, after which he was a long-term student of Dorothy Taubman and Edna Golandsky. He has taught at Adelphi University and in the pre-college division of the Manhattan School of Music. In demand as a clinician in the United States, Australia and Europe, he has lectured at a number of colleges and universities and has been a presenter at five MTNA conferences. He regularly teaches and lectures on the Taubman Approach in Australia and was invited to be a keynote speaker at the 2019 APPC in Brisbane. He took German-language presentations on the Taubman Approach to Switzerland in 2016 and 2019. John maintains a teaching studio in New York City and gives frequent workshops and lessons online. He is a co-founder and senior director of the Golandsky Institute, where he also serves as faculty chair.
Jennifer Linn is a multi-talented pianist, composer, arranger and clinician. As a clinician, she has presented workshops, master classes and showcases throughout the United States, Canada and India. Jennifer has created more than 200 original compositions and arrangements published by Hal Leonard. From 2009–2019, she was the manager of educational piano for Hal Leonard. Jennifer has maintained an independent piano studio since 1983 teaching students of all ages, as well as group instruction and piano pedagogy at the university level. She received a BM with distinction and MM in piano performance from the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) Conservatory of Music, where she was named Outstanding Student in the graduate piano division and given the prestigious Vice Chancellor’s award for academic excellence and service. In 2013, UMKC named Jennifer Alumni of the Year. In 2020, she was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award as a leader in the fields of music and education.
Lynda Lybeck-Robinson teaches piano in the remote Aleutian Islands, off the coast of Alaska, 800 miles from the nearest city. A Pacific Northwest native, she earned her BA degree at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, with an emphasis on classical piano performance and composition, choral arranging and accompanying. Lynda’s singing/songwriting has taken her around the world. In 1996, Lynda arrived in Unalaska, Alaska, for a short performing contract. The visit was extended while she established the region’s first piano teaching studio, returning in 2002 permanently. In 2012, Lynda was first published by Hal Leonard. Her piece, Williwaw, was selected by the National Federation of Music Clubs for the featured 2014–2016 catalogue. In addition to several CD recordings, she has several books and more than 50 original piano solos and arrangements published by Hal Leonard. Lynda was president of the Aleutian Arts Council for several years. She is president of Kenai Central Piano and Music Teachers and state president for Alaska Federation of Music Clubs.