Friday, August 7

Schedule subject to change

(All Times Eastern)

8:00 a.m. Registration Atrium Coffee and Conversation Baur Room Sponsored by University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome Room 3250 Kevin Chance, NCTM; Briah Shepard; Andy Villemez
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address: Prepare Now for the Golden Age of the Arts Download Handout Room 3250 Courtney Crappell, NCTM
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break Baur Room Sponsored by eNovativePiano
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Curriculum Reset Room 3250 Courtney Crappell, NCTM, moderator; Brendan Jacklin; Lynn Worcester Jones, NCTM; Lucia Unrau, NCTM; Meggie Young, NCTM
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Individual Reflection/Worksheet Room 3250
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Poster Session Atrium Accommodations in College Class Piano Courses Ka-Young Lee, NCTM Bridging Classical Piano and Asian Pop: Engaging Gen Z and Gen Alpha in Modern Piano Lessons Mingzi Hu Building Strong Foundations: Mastering Left-hand Technique for Beginner Pianists Xiaolin Chen First Steps into Sound Worlds: Snorri Sigfús Birgisson’s Experimental Piano Method Kristín Jónína Taylor From First Read to Final Performance: A Structured Strategy Recipe for Practicing New Pieces Download Handout Xiangyu Zhao, NCTM Get Your Reps In: Low-Cost, High-Impact Tools for Motivating Piano Practice Download Handout Jessie Welsh, NCTM Improvisation, Ear Training, and Sight-Reading in Class Piano Download Handout Kim Witt, NCTM Rediscovering Zoltán Kodály: Piano Works Beyond the Method Download Handout Soohyun Lee Sound Preparation: Fostering Wellness and Career Readiness in Collegiate Group Piano Sarah Jenkins, NCTM The Application of Syncopated Rhythms in the Development of Sight-Reading Skills for non-keyboard College Music Majors Download Handout Ronald Rodriguez The Pedagogical Piano Works of Nannie Louise Wright: Mentor, Composer, Educator Samuel Gingher
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Baur Room Boxed lunches (advanced purchase required) or on your own
1:15 – 1:30 p.m. Introduction to Discussion Groups Room 3250
1:30 – 1:45 p.m. Break Baur Room
1:45 – 3:10 p.m. Rotation Discussion Groups (See program book for rotation schedule) Group Piano: Jenna Klein, NCTM; Stephen Pierce Higher Education: Myron Brown, NCTM; Lucia Unrau, NCTM Piano Pedagogy: Sara Ernst, NCTM; Hannah Roberts, NCTM
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Lightning Talks Room 3250 Unlocking AI for Piano Pedagogy: Quick Step Guide Download Handout Aya Hagelthorn Celebrating Choctaw Heritage: Charles Shadle's Choctaw Animals for Piano Anna Dunbar From Movement to Music: Enhancing Group Piano with Somatic Training Chiao-Rou Liu U(pia)NO! Teaching Chord Symbols through a Card Game Approach in Group Piano Wenhao Zhang From Self-Doubt to Self-Belief: Helping Students Reframe Negative Thoughts Jackie Yong, NCTM Memorization in Piano Performance: An Old Relic or an Upstanding Tradition? Michelle Sulaiman Piano Concertos: Not Just For Concert Pianists Download Handout Meg Gray; James Knight
5:00 p.m. Reception Baur Room Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of America

Saturday, August 8

Schedule subject to change

(All Times Eastern)

8:00 a.m. Registration Atrium Coffee and Conversation Baur Room Sponsored by The RCM Certificate Program
9:00 a.m. Welcome Room 3250 Diana Dumlavwalla, NCTM
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. Findings from Day 1 Current Practices Rotation Room 3250 Myron Brown, NCTM; Sara Ernst, NCTM; Jenna Klein, NCTM; Stephen Pierce; Hannah Roberts, NCTM; Lucia Unrau
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break Baur Room
10:15 – 11:30 a.m. Keynote Address and Discussion: Visioning a Sustainable Future Room 3250 Jennifer Snow
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 Noon Poster Session Atrium See Friday schedule for listing of posters
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Baur Room Boxed lunches (advanced purchase required) or on your own
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Concert Werner Hall Song for Piano, Op. 8, No. 1, Allegro Moderato by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Grace Ho The Limpid Stream by Trần Tất Toại Le Binh Anh Nguyen Toccata for piano by Emma Lou Diemer Jonida Lazellari "Great Day" Ode by Jacqueline Hairston Er-Hsuan Li, NCTM Water Dance, III. Very lightly, like a harp by Karen Tanaka Hannah Roberts Eterna (2025) by Marcos Fernández-Barrero Benita Rose, Rose International Piano Conservatory, Prescott, Arizona Affection by Molly Joyce Brianna Matzke El Vals de Santo Domingo by Pedro Rafael "Bullumba" Landestoy Yoshiko Arahata
2:00 – 2:10 p.m. Break Baur Room
2:10 – 3:45 p.m. Rotation Session (See program book for rotation schedule) Memorable Melodies: Spiral Curriculum in Keyboard Skills Michael Clark, NCTM Instrument and Interface: Teaching Keyboard Literacy in Commercial Music Settings Andy Villemez Ignite Your Musical Creativity: 5 Practical Activities Inspired by the NYT Creativity Challenge Siok Lian Tan, NCTM Approaches to Academic Accommodations David Cartledge
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Break Baur Room
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Lightning Talks Room 3250 Your AI Assistant: Four Uses of Generative AI for Group Piano Instructors Elias Blake Haitian Classical Music: Distinctive Voices and Traditions Download Handout Lina Yoo Min Lee, NCTM Lead Sheet Literacy in the Group Piano Lab Download Handout Samuel Gingher The Reflective Studio: Action Research in Early Childhood Piano Teaching Download Handout Afrim Shabani, NCTM Student-Led Teaching: Applying the Four-Phase Model of Interest Development in Group Piano Curriculum Theresa Camilli
5:00 p.m. Closing Room 3250 Erin Bennett, NCTM, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

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