NCKP 2021: Schedule

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Wednesday, July 28
12:00pm Virtual Lobby
12:30-1:45pm Welcome & Plenary Keynote
Welcome \| Jennifer Snow Plenary Keynote Teaching the Musicians Who Will Change the World \| Karen Zorn What if we saw in every music student the potential to change the world? How might that perspective change the way we view our students and how we teach? If we say that the world needs music now more than ever, how do we prepare our students to address that need? Imagine a fresh take on the role of musicians in society and explore the educational approaches that may enable students of every level to make a difference.
2:00-2:50pm Presentations
2:00-2:50pm \| Panel Presentation Parents, Pianists, and Pedagogues: Prioritizing Self-Care During a Pandemic \| Laura Amoriello, Sara Ernst, Andrea McAlister, Lesley McAllister, and Paola Savvidou
2:00-2:50pm \| Panel Presentation Keys to Inclusion: Reimagining the Piano Canon \| Brian Hsu, Sun Min Kim, Daniel Pesca, Sonya Schumann, and Susan Tang
2:00-2:50pm \| Presentation Dueling Duos of Another Gender \| Bonnie Choi
2:00-2:50pm \| Presentation The Social Impact of a Socio-Cultural Piano Group Project in Brazil \| Cheisa Goulart and Maria Luisa Avello
2:00-2:50pm \| Presentation Go Forward and Make Beautiful Music \| Spencer Myer
2:00-2:50pm \| Presentation Promoting Students' Creativity: A Linear Approach to Piano Harmony and Texture \| Christos Tsitsaros
2:00-2:25pm \| Presentation Building Community Through Chamber Music \| Andrea Merrill 2:25-2:50pm \| Presentation Moving Your Ensemble Online: Remote Teaching of Piano Duet and Concerto Literature for the Intermediate Level \| Hye Jee Jang
2:00-2:50pm \| Lecture Recital Does One Size Fit All? Interpreting Ragtime Piano \| Glenn Utsch
2:00-2:25pm \| Lecture Recital Piano Sonatas by Twentieth-Century Soviet Female Composers \| Helena Hyesoo Kim 2:25-2:50pm \| Lecture Recital Toward an Inclusive Piano Repertoire from the Classic Period: The Music of Marianna Martines and Maria Hester Park \| Olga Kleiankina and Kristen Turner
2:00-2:50pm \| Interactive Workshop Who's That? Creating a New Standard Repertoire \| Artina McCain
2:00-2:25pm \| Interactive Workshop Online Piano Lessons for Young Beginners \| Rebecca Pennington 2:25-2:50pm \| Interactive Workshop Teaching Composition to Young Beginners \| Christopher Oill
2:00-2:50pm \| Keyboard Lab The Blues: A Colorful Framework for Igniting Creativity \| Leila Viss
3:00-3:30pm Break / Networking / Poster Launch / Discussion Pods
3:30-4:30pm Exhibit Hall / Visit with an Expert
4:30-5:20pm Presentations
4:30-5:20pm \| Panel Presentation Creating Piano Recital Programs for a More Diverse Tomorrow! \| Penny Lazarus, Lynn Worcester Jones, Sally Ritchie, and Sue Ruby
4:30-5:20pm \| Panel Presentation Innovative Intermediate Piano Music from Latin America \| University of Memphis MTNA
4:30-5:20pm \| Presentation How Our Brains Learn Best: Surprising Practice Tips We Tend to Avoid \| Barbara Fast
4:30-5:20pm \| Presentation All I Need to Know (about Teaching and Performing) I Learned from Early Childhood Music \| Linda M. Fields
4:30-5:20pm \| Presentation Absolutely! Pathways to Expression and Artistry for Special Learners \| Scott Price
4:30-5:20pm \| Presentation Mozart and Performance Practice: What the Fortepiano Can Teach Us \| Luis Sanchez
4:30-4:55pm \| Presentation Teaching Little Hands: Building Three-Dimensional Piano Technique from the Beginning \| Fred Karpoff 4:55-5:20pm \| Presentation Applying Video Modeling and Motor Imagery to Remote Piano Lessons: Creative and Practical Approaches to Enhance Piano Technique \| Huiyun Liang
4:30-4:55pm \| Research Track Loud and Clear: Looking at Piano Pedagogy and Female Composers Through an Intersectional Lens \| Olivia Adams 4:55-5:20pm \| Research Track Music and Empathy: Ambassadors for Tomorrow \| Susan Bruckner
4:30-5:20pm \| Lecture Recital Chopin’s Polonaise Fantasy: A Love Story Expressed Through Song and Dance \| Carol Leone
4:30-5:20pm \| Lecture Recital Bach to Black: Piano Suites by J.S. Bach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and James Lee III \| Rochelle Sennet
4:30-5:20pm \| Interactive Workshop Migraine-Free Management: Operating an Independent Studio with Less Stress \| Clinton Pratt
4:30-5:20pm \| Interactive Workshop Create to Motivate! Giving the Gift of Musical Ownership \| Chee-Hwa Tan
4:30-5:20pm \| Keyboard Lab Creating Multi-Level Duets and Ensembles from Standard Piano Repertoire \| Paul Myatt
5:30-6:30pm Break / Networking / Discussion Pods
6:30-7:45pm PEDx Carol Johnson Brittany Maier Leila Viss
8:00-9:00pm Evening Concert, Anne-Marie McDermott

Schedule subject to change without notice.

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Thursday, July 29
10:30-11:20am Showcases
10:30-11:50am Exhibit Hall
12:00-1:00pm Plenary Keynote, Afa Dworkin
Plenary Keynote Breaking The Sound Barrier: Prioritizing Representation in Classical Music \| Afa Dworkin President and Artistic Director of the Sphinx Organization, Afa S. Dworkin, will share her personal story of building diversity in the sector as an arts leader and educator. The talk will include lessons of inspiration from artists, composers, and leaders, as Afa makes the case for diversity in performance, programming, mentorship, and cultural entrepreneurship.
1:00-1:30pm Posters / Exhibit Hall
1:30-1:55pm Presentations
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Why Can’t We Be Friends? Informal Music Learning and Pop Pedagogy for Classical Teachers \| Kate Acone
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Finding Opportunity in Times of Change \| David Cartledge
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation In the Key of Now: 21st-Century Ways to Teach 19th-Century Concepts \| Karen Gerelus
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation How to Implement a Video Lesson Library in Your Studio \| Joseph Harkins
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Pianist, Heal Thyself!—Developing and Maintaining Healthy Practice Habits \| James Litzelman
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Raag-time: Incorporating Non-Western Musical Traditions \| Omar Roy
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Kaleidoscope Career: Adaptive Strategies for Teaching Students Interested in the Music Industry \| Andy Villemez
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation \| Spanish-Portuguese Track Persona: a utilização de fantoches como recurso lúdico-afetivo nas aulas de piano (Persona: The Use of Puppets as a Ludic-Affective Resource in Piano Lessons) \| Vanessa Bormann
1:30-1:55pm \| Lecture Recital Intermediate and Early-Advanced Piano Gems by Florence Price \| Cole Burger
1:30-1:55pm \| Interactive Workshop Baroque Basics: Improvising Ornamentation with Intermediate and Advanced Piano Students \| Curtis Pavey
1:30-1:55pm \| Interactive Workshop The Powerful Pedagogy 3Ps—Prepare, Present, Practice \| Janet Tschida
2:00-2:30pm Break / Networking / Social Events / Discussion Pods
2:30-3:20pm Presentations
2:30-3:20pm \| Panel Presentation Advocating Musicians’ Health for ALL: Educating Teachers on Essential Information to Ensure Every Student a Lifetime of Healthy Music Making \| Gail Berenson, Linda Cockey, and Charles Turon
2:30-3:20pm \| Panel Presentation Collaborating via Technology \| Dana Brown, John Gunther, Jeremy Reger, Alexandra Nguyen (moderator)
2:30-3:20pm \| Presentation Teaching Chopin From Early Intermediate Through Advanced: Same Concepts Just a Lot Harder! \| Ingrid Clarfield, Kairy Koshoeva
2:30-3:20pm \| Presentation Special Needs and Creativity: Improvisation as a Blueprint for Learning \| Scott Price
2:30-2:55pm \| Presentation Piano Music by Female Composers and Composers of Color: Selections for Elementary to Early-Advanced Levels \| Jenna Klein 2:55-3:20pm \| Presentation Florence Price: Underrepresented Repertoire for Pianists of All Levels \| Shannon Wettstein-Sadler
2:30-2:55pm \| Presentation Teaching Expressive Playing Through the Use of Words and Singing \| Margarita Denenburg 2:55-3:20pm \| Presentation No Student is an Island: Integrating Collaborative Piano Pedagogy into Your Studio \| Lauren Koszyk and Adam Salas
2:30-2:55pm \| Research Track Self-Monitoring of Muscle Tone during Piano Practice \| Maria Hordynskyj Holian 2:55-3:20pm \| Research Track Using Performance Cues as a Memorization Strategy with Group Piano Students by Implementing Teacher and Student-Directed Learning Approaches \| Maria Eduarda Lucena Vieira
2:30-2:55pm \| Presentation \| Spanish-Portuguese Track O primeiro repertório para piano: As Sonatas de Giustini (The First Repertoire for Piano: The Giustini Sonatas) \| Bernardo Scarambone 2:55-3:20pm \| Lecture Recital \| Spanish-Portuguese Track Danzas Fantásticas, Op. 22 de Joaquín Turina: construindo a performance para piano solo a partir de sua orquestração (Danzas Fantásticas, Op. 22 by Joaquín Turina: The Performance for Solo Piano Based on His Orchestration) \| Diego Caetano
2:30-3:20pm \| Lecture Recital Music and Nationhood \| Catherine Kautsky
2:30-2:55pm \| Lecture Recital Debussy’s Affair with the Gamelan: GAME-Land No. 5 for Piano, Playing Hand, Voice, Kemanak, and Javanese Gong-Ageng by Slamet Abdul Sjukur (1935-2015) \| Cicilia Yudha 2:55-3:20pm \| Lecture Recital Rebalancing the Scales: A Renewed Look at the Solo Piano Music of Agathe Bäcker-Grøndahl \| Kristin Taylor
2:30-3:20pm \| Interactive Workshop Rhythm Without the Blues: Have a Blast Teaching Rhythm in 45 Minutes \| Beth Sussman 2:30-3:20pm \| Interactive Workshop Time to Unmute: Adapting Cooperative Learning Activities for Hybrid and Virtual Group Piano Labs \| John Patrick Murphy and Todd Van Kekerix
2:30-3:20pm \| Lightning Talks Building Community/Overcoming Distance: 2021 NCKP Virtual Piano Ensemble \| Laura Silva Bridging the Divide Through Non-Traditional Collaboration \| Eneida Larti How Private Music Teachers Can Contribute to Equity in Music Education \| Natalie Burton Pandemic or Not-Online Lessons for All! \| Ivan Hurd Building Community in the Virtual Environment \| Lucy Chen An Entrepreneurial Blueprint for the Twenty-First Century Musician \| Shitong Sigler Arts Entrepreneurship 101: Six Steps to Make Your Creative Ideas Come to Life \| Brianna Matzke
3:30-4:30pm Plenary Concert, Shani Diluka
4:45-5:30pm Teaching Demo
5:30-6:00pm Break / Exhibit Hall / Networking / Discussion Pods / Social Events
6:00-6:50 Showcases
7:00-8:15pm PEDx Peter Dugan William Chapman Nyaho Yael Weiss
8:30pm Evening Concert, Garrick Ohlsson

Schedule subject to change without notice.

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Friday, July 30
10:30-11:20am Showcases
10:30-11:50am Exhibit Hall
12:00-1:00pm Plenary Keynote, Joseph Conyers
Plenary Keynote Music— A Tool for Good \| Joseph Conyers Music inspires us to reach the highest of artistic heights. However, are we as musicians harnessing the full power of music's potential? "Music - A Tool For Good" addresses the many ways music can be used beyond the stage to bring hope and light to an oftentimes chaotic world.
1:00-1:30pm Posters / Exhibit Hall
1:30-1:55pm Presentations
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation How to Run a Piano Conservatory—Online! \| Emily Ezola
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Getting To It and Positive Actions: The Most Important, Most Forgotten Practice Tips \| Barbara Fast
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation From Index Cards to iPads: Pedagogy in a Changing World \| Meg Gray
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Not Playing Around: Toy Pianos and Their Creative Potential in the Studio \| Grace Huang
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Should Folk Songs in Group Piano Be Scrapped? \| Jeriel Jorguenson
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Learning Through Imagery: A Multi-Sensory Approach for Successful Outcomes \| Eneida Larti
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Designing an Effective Collegiate Sight-Reading Course \| Brian Marks
1:30-1:55pm \| Presentation Tonal or Spectral? An Alternative "Aural Skills" Workshop for Pianists \| Yannis Rammos
1:30-1:55pm \| Lecture Recital Lost Gems: Piano Music of Bolivia \| Walter Aparicio
1:30-1:55pm \| Interactive Workshop All the World's a Stage: Teaching Confident Performance Presentation through Acting \| Andrea Johnson
1:30-1:55pm \| Interactive Workshop Score Study Experts: Using Conductors’ Techniques to Enhance Audiation, Gesture, Understanding, and Conceptualization in the Private Piano Lesson \| Anna Beth Rucker
1:30-1:55pm \| Interactive Workshop The Secret Ingredient of Your Technique: The Pelvis! \| Anna Siampani
2:00-2:30pm Break / Networking / Social Events / Discussion Pods
2:30-3:20pm Presentations
2:30-3:20pm \| Panel Presentation What If You Came First? Self-Care for Teachers in Turbulent Times \| Laura Amoriello, Vanessa Cornett-Murtada, and Jessica Johnson
2:30-3:20pm \| Panel Presentation Evaluation Insights \| Asher Armstrong, Maria Case, Sara Ernst, Janet Lopinski, and Stephen Pierce
2:30-3:20pm \| Presentation Links Between Music and Language \| Sean Hutchins
2:30-3:20pm \| Presentation Mindful Movement: Applying Yogic Principles to Preschool, Adolescent, and Senior Music Lessons \| Lesley McAllister
2:30-2:55pm \| Research Track Reach, Connect, and Heal: Online Piano Teaching of Adult Hobbyists \| Carla Davis Cash, Laura Lennis Cortés, and Qin Ling 2:55-3:20pm \| Research Track Reaching Digital Native Music Majors: Pedagogy for Undergraduate Group Piano in the 21st Century \| Rachel D. Hahn
2:30-2:55pm \| Presentation \| Spanish-Portuguese Track Danzas y ritmos ecuatorianos: estrategias para la enseñanza pianística (Ecuadorian Dances Rhythms: Strategies for Piano Teaching) \| Angelica Maria Sanchez 2:55-3:20pm \| Panel Presentation\| Spanish-Portuguese Track Obras latinoamericanas para piano a cuatro manos: etapas Iniciales (Latin American Works for Piano Four Hands: Initial Stages) \| Mariana Garrotti, Ana Paula Oyola, Beatriz Yacante, and Andrea Zanni
2:30-3:20pm \| Lecture Recital Voices Silenced: Piano Music of Composers Killed in the Holocaust \| Hannah Creviston
2:30-2:55pm \| Lecture Recital 가위 ("Scissors") Fantasia Toccata: An Unexpected Inspiration \| April Kim 2:55-3:20pm \| Lecture Recital Brooklyn’s Post-Millennial Mozart: Missy Mazzoli \| Christina Lai
2:30-3:20pm \| Interactive Workshop Boomers on Eurhythmics \| Jackie Edwards-Henry
2:30-2:55pm \| Interactive Workshop A Year of Experimentation: Piano Studio as a Place of Belonging, Engagement, and Ownership \| Jihea Hong-Park 2:55-3:20pm \| Interactive Workshop MusicLink and its 25-Year Legacy: The Significance of Music in the Lives of Disadvantaged Students \| Joanne Haroutounian
2:30-3:20pm \| Keyboard Lab How to Approach Jazz and Pop for a Classical Teacher \| Christopher Norton
2:30-3:20pm \| Lightning Talks Got Rhythm? Establishing Habits for Long-Term Wellness \| Esther Hayter Beethoven Editions: Do We Need So Many Choices? \| Bonnie Choi Introducing Alicia’s Piano Books by Indonesian Composer Ananda Sukarlan \| Karen Kai Yuan Yong Teaching 20th-Century Intermediate Repertoire in Changing Meter \| Jinkyung Kim Teaching Mixed Meter and Suggested Intermediate-Level Repertoire \| Mengyu Song From the Known to the Unknown: The Lego Blocks of the Sight-Reading Skill \| Ricardo Pozenatto All the Feels About Open-Score Sight Reading \| Kathryn Sherman
3:30-4:30pm Plenary Concert, Isata Kanneh-Mason
4:45-5:30pm Teaching Demo
5:30-6:00pm Break / Exhibit Hall / Networking / Discussion Pods / Social Events
6:00-6:50 Showcases
7:00-8:15pm PEDx Shani Diluka Anne-Marie McDermott Melissa Martiros
8:30pm Evening Concert, Peter Dugan

Schedule subject to change without notice.

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Saturday, July 31
10:30-11:20am Showcases
10:30-11:50am Exhibit Hall
12:00-1:00pm Plenary Keynote, Gary McPherson
Plenary Keynote Recalibrating Our Teaching to Accomodate Young Musicians' Psychological Needs \| Gary McPherson This presentation shows how teachers can recalibrate their teaching by designing learning environments that focus on the types of psychological needs that provide the nutrients for students to thrive. The toolkit of strategies proposed aim to enable teachers to position themselves to take on a much broader and more impactful role as individuals who are able to inspire their students and impact on their love of music.
1:00-1:30pm Posters / Exhibit Hall
1:30-1:55pm Presentations
1:30-2:20pm \| Panel Presentation Uncovering Hidden Voices: Exploring Piano Works by Black Women Composers in the Helen Walker-Hill Collection \| Bryan Chuan, Anastasiia Pavlenko, Angela Schmitt, Elizabeth Smith, and Elizabeth Strickland
1:30-2:20pm \| Panel Presentation NEW to the Job! Reflections, Advice, and Professional Strategies from Recently-Hired Collegiate Faculty \| Margarita Denenburg, Ivan Hurd, Andrea Johnson, and Todd Van Kekerix
1:30-2:20pm \| Presentation Bringing Your Online Teaching to the Next Level: Using OBS Studio and Creative/Fun Activities \| João Paulo Casarotti and Daiane Raatz
1:30-2:20pm \| Presentation Piano Partnerships: Traits of Effective Teachers of Adults (as Reported by their Students) \| Pamela D. Pike
1:30-2:20pm \| Presentation Bringing the Pop to Popular Music: Teaching Performance Practice in Pop, Rock, and R&B \| Nicolas Lira and Bridget O'Leary
1:30-2:20pm \| Presentation My Piano Arrangement is Better Than Yours (and Here Are the Secrets!) \| Jeremy Siskind
1:30-1:55pm \| Research Track Improvisation in Collegiate Private and Group Piano Settings \| Grace Choi 1:55-2:20pm \| Research Track Action Research in the Piano Lab: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Developing Ear Playing in Beginner Pianists \| Gemma O'Herlihy
1:30-1:55pm \| Lecture Recital \| Spanish-Portuguese Track Partita mestiza: el barroco se encuentra con Latinoamérica (Partita mestiza: Baroque Meets Latin America) \| Manuel Matarrita 1:55-2:20pm \| Lecture Recital \| Spanish-Portuguese Track Las Sonatas para teclado de Padre Antonio Soler: una aproximación pedagógica (The Keyboard Sonatas of Padre Antonio Soler: A Pedagogical Approach) \| Marina Bengoa Roldan
1:30-2:20pm \| Lecture Recital Piano Music in the Time of Anne Frank: Compositions by Suppressed and Forgotten Dutch Composers \| Deborah Nemko
1:30-2:20pm \| Interactive Workshop A Million Little Etudes \| Catharine Lysinger
1:30-2:20pm \| Interactive Workshop The Aural Underground: Laying the Ear-Brain-Body Foundation for a Lifetime of Piano Success \| Amy Rucker
1:30-2:20pm \| Keyboard Lab Duels at a Distance: Adapting Games to a Remote Group Piano Environment \| Erin K. Bennett
2:20-2:45pm Exhibit Hall / Break / Networking / Social Events / Discussion Pods
2:45-3:30pm Teaching Demo
4:00-4:50 Presentations
4:00-4:50pm \| Panel Presentation Teaching Students to Fish: Developing Independent Learners From the First Lesson \| Lynnette Barney, Joy Morin, Christopher Oill, Tony Parlapiano, and Clinton Pratt
4:00-4:50pm \| Presentation Distantly Social: Creating Meaningful Virtual Recital Experiences for Students, Families, and Communities \| Mario Ajero
4:00-4:50pm \| Presentation "Go Big Or AND Go Home!": Adult Group Teaching Pedagogical Takeaways \| Yeeseon Kwon
4:00-4:50pm \| Presentation Clarifying the Piano Teacher’s Role in Playing-Related Injury \| Barbara Lister-Sink
4:00-4:50pm \| Presentation Technique Through the Repertoire \| Christopher Madden and Jani Parsons
4:00-4:25pm \| Presentation Learning from Limitations: The Indianist Piano Pieces of Amy Beach and Arthur Farwell \| Natalie Khatibzadeh 4:25-4:50pm \| Presentation Echoes in Time: Understanding, Teaching, and Creatively Programming Contemporary Works as Parallels to Standard Classics \| Monica Kang-Sasaki
4:00-4:25pm \| Presentation Nurturing Interest and Cultivating Motivation: Investigating the Intersection of Educational Psychology and Piano Pedagogy \| Jared Rixstine 4:25-4:50pm \| Presentation Teach Them to Believe: Strategies for Cultivating Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Piano Students \| Lynn Worcester Jones
4:00-4:25pm \| Research Track Choral Music Educators and "Real World" Piano Applications: A Collective Case Study \| Leonidas Lagrimas 4:25-4:50pm \| Research Track What Did They Say? Professional Musicians Give Their Perspectives on Piano Training \| Margaret Young
4:00-4:25pm \| Presentation \| Spanish-Portuguese Track Música contemporânea brasileira para iniciação ao piano: enriquecendo o repertório de estudantes de níveis elementares e intermediários (Contemporary Brazilian Music for Piano Beginners: Enriching the Repertoire of Elementary and Intermediate Students) \| Luis Barros and Claudia Deltregia 4:25-4:50pm \| Presentation \| Spanish-Portuguese Track O guia prático para a juventude: a obra pedagógica de Heitor Villa-Lobos (The Guia Prático for the Youth: The Pedagogical Work of Heitor Villa-Lobos) \| Verena Abufaiad
4:00-4:50pm \| Lecture Recital The Spiritual Tradition: From the Southland by Harry T. Burleigh \| Roger McVey
4:00-4:25pm \| Lecture Recital Six Hands on Deck \| Rosalyn Floyd, Martin David Jones, and Clara Park 4:25-4:50pm \| Lecture Recital Electronic Chamber Music: Collaborating with Computers \| Brendan Jacklin
4:00-4:50pm \| Interactive Workshop Building the Dyslexic Brain with Music \| Becki Laurent
4:00-4:50pm \| Keyboard Lab How to Play by Ear (Really!) \| Bradley Sowash
5:00-5:30 Closing Social Event
5:30-8:00pm Award Ceremony & Gala Reception

Schedule subject to change without notice.

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