Bio: Retired Presbyterian Minister and University Psychologist
Email: ladlai@charter.net
Phone: 828-669-4869
Other Music Related Services: Will video performances and competitions as needed
Bio: I am a member of a similar but smaller group in Orlando Florida. We meet each month at a different member's home, like the performance groups in AAPF. We play mostly classical pieces from composers such as Debussy, Chopin, Bach, Scriabin, Schumann, etc. I consider myself an intermediate level pianist but like to challenge myself with more difficult songs. I live in Asheville during summer and fall and return to Florida at the end of November.
Email: bbroulik@aol.com
Bio: A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory(B.M.), West Chester University (M.M.), with post- graduate performance studies at Rutgers University, Ms. Boyd has almost fifty years of teaching experience. Her students have won numerous competitions and many have continued music study at major universities. She is a founding member of AAPF, and is its president for 2020-21. Karen is also a member of NCMTA.
Email: karenpianoboyd@gmail.com
Phone: (828)669-4869 or (828)782-0502
Teaching Locations: at student homes, Black Mountain, Montreat, Swannanoa, East Asheville
Offering Piano Lessons for: Beginners through Advanced, ages 5-90.
Teaching Styles: Classical
Address: Black Mountain
Bio: Kimberly is a mother of two toddlers; wife of a double bassist & self-taught master of many trades; Eastman-trained professional concert pianist; sister of concert pianist Michelle Cann; director of Piano Lab Studios; and President of the AAPF 2012-2014 and 2017-2018. She loves Asheville and plans to retire here...but that's a long time from now. :)
Email: kcann98@gmail.com
Website Address: PianoLabAsheville.com
Studio/Store Location, Serving: Asheville, Hendersonville, Weaverville, Black Mountain, Canton, All of Western NC, Fletcher
Offering Piano Lessons for: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Young Children, Elementary, Middle/High School, College, Adults
Teaching Styles: Classical, Jazz, Popular, Religious
Offering Other Music Lessons for: Theory, Composition, Voice, Strings, Percussion
Bio: Emeritus Professor Benjamin D Caton taught for 46 years in the Department or Music at East Tennessee State University. He earned these degrees: BSME, ETSU; MA and PhD, The Ohio State University. Caton served as President of Music Teachers National Association from 2011-2013. Awards include MTNA Foundation Fellow, MTNA Distinguished Service Award, MTNA Teacher of the Year Award, ETSU Distinguished Service Award, Phi Mu Alpha Signature Sinfonian Award. Currently teaches piano in the ETSU Pre-College Program and is adjunct professor of piano and piano pedagogy at ETSU.
Email: caton@etsu.edu
Phone: 423-928-2478
Studio/Store Location, Serving: ETSU at Johnson City, TN
Offering Piano Lessons for: College and Pre-College
Teaching Styles: Classical
Address: Johnson City, TN
Bio: Elizabeth Child holds a DMA in piano performance from The Juilliard School. She teaches classical piano and theory to all levels at her studio in Tryon NC, and often performs in the Asheville area. You can contact her through her website at www.elizabethchildpianist.com.
Email: mechild@windstream.net
Phone: 828-817-4627
Website Address: www.elizabethchildpianist.com
Studio/Store Location, Serving: Tryon, NC and Landrum, SC
Offering Piano Lessons for: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Elementary, Middle/High School, Adults
Teaching Styles: Classical
Address: Tryon
Bio: Classical. Oberlin. U. Illinois, Peabody. Chamber music, sometimes lounge lizard.
Email: christineaclark@me.com
Phone: 904-910-2632
Bio: An international performer and recording artist, Dr. Cobb did post-doctoral study with legendary pianist Claudio Arrau. The New York Times praised his "solid technique, bronze tone and flexibility of interpretive style." While completing a Doctor of Music degree at Northwestern University, Dr. Cobb held a fellowship at the University of Chicago, where he pursued doctoral studies in musicology. He performs a broad repertoire of solo and chamber music, is a frequent performer on the Piano Forte series at the Asheville Art Museum and appeared as soloist with the Asheville Symphony, performing the Samuel Barber Piano Concerto. Dr. Cobb frequently serves as an adjudicator for competitions and music festivals.
Email: jcobbpiano@gmail.com
Phone: 828-551-3810
Studio/Store Location, Serving: Greater Asheville, Fairview, and Hendersonville
Offering Piano Lessons for: Beginners through Advanced, ages 10 through Adult; coaching for professionals
Teaching Styles: Classical
Offering Other Music Lessons for: Theory, Composition, Voice, Mrs. Cobb (Gwenn) is a singer/voice teacher
Other Music Related Services: Arrau Technique training: using relaxation and body leverage in playing.
Address: Fairview
Bio: Diane has served as piano teacher for 10+ years in both Virginia and SD & as both traditional church pianist & worship team keyboardist for 40+ years in Kentucky, Virginia, S. Dakota & N. Carolina. Performances include: Buncombe Baptist Assoc. Choir Christmas performances at Biltmore & Grove Park, accompanying the AC Reynolds Middle School choir & bell soloist Christine Anderson. Diane earned a Bachelor of Music Education, majoring in piano, from Georgetown College, Kentucky, & Master of Rehabilitation Counseling from University of Kentucky. Not currently teaching. Interested in church piano sub.
Email: dianecoombs7@gmail.com
Phone: 828-280-5035
Address: Asheville
Bio: Dr. Jason DeCristofaro is the Director of Creative Arts & Events and Music Faculty at Warren Wilson. An active music educator, multi-instrumentalist and composer/arranger based in Asheville, NC. Jason has performed nationally and internationally at many jazz festivals, and is in demand as a clinician, having presented clincis, masterclasses and performances on jazz improvisation at many colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Email: jdecristofaro@warren-wilson.edu
Website: www.youtube.com/jasondecristofaro
Phone: 828-273-8254
Email: jpkontaksu@gmail.com
Address: Asheville
Bio: Dr. Leslie Downs is active as both a solo and collaborative pianist. He has performed in solo, lieder, chamber and choral concerts throughout the United States and in Canada. He has served as music director for regional musical theatre productions. For 16 years he worked as a freelance pianist/teacher/vocal coach in New York City. He currently serves as the Music Director for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville. He holds degrees from Centenary College of Louisiana, Yale University, and University of Oklahoma.
Email: lgdowns721@gmail.com
Phone: (828) 775-3539
Website Address: LeslieDowns.com
Studio/Store Location, Serving: Asheville, Black Mountain
Offering Piano Lessons for: Intermediate, Advanced, Middle/High School, College, Adults, Lessons in your home
Teaching Styles: Classical, Popular, Religious
Other Music Related Services: Vocal Coaching
Address: Asheville
Bio: Pianist Sharyn Edwards has concertized throughout the southeastern United States and in Russia. She has been soloist with the Charlotte, Charleston, Fayetteville, Wilmington and Charlotte Repertoire Symphonies and was an Artist with the N.C Touring Artists Roster. Dr. Edwards made her New York debut at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and has recorded a Classic CD for the Musikus Label. Dr. Edwards is a native of Asheville and her formative training was with Dorothy Krauss. Other teachers include Dr. John P. Adams, Canadian Pianist, Raymond Dudley, John Quincy Bass, James Bonn and coaching with Madame Lili Krauss among others. Currently she is Director of the Dr. Sharyn Edwards 46th Piano Festival and Competition.
Email: sharynedwards14@gmail.com
Offering Piano Lessons for: All ages.
Teaching Styles: Classical
Address: Leicester
Bio: Have been taking piano lessons for 3 years
Email: emerson10036@gmail.com
Phone: 828-702-8515
Address: Asheville
Phone: 828-777-0061
Studio/Store Location, Serving: Asheville
Offering Piano Lessons for: Intermediate, Advanced, Elementary
Teaching Styles: Classical, Religious
Offering Other Music Lessons for: Theory
Address: Asheville
Bio: Degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (Bach. of Music), Columbia University Teachers College (Master of Arts) with 2 years additional study at Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Career includes lecture-recitals, articles on piano pedagogy in leading music journals and competition adjudication.
Performer Details: I like the challenge of learning new repertoire, particularly 4 hand literature with fellow Piano Forum members. I also sub as a church pianist and am available to perform as a cocktail pianist.
Email: pollyfeitzinger@gmail.com
Phone: 828-676-0766
Studio/Store Location, Serving: Hendersonville
Offering Piano Lessons for: Teenagers, Adults
Teaching Styles: Classical
Offering Other Music Lessons for: Piano, Theory
Address: Hendersonville
Bio: VICTORIA FISCHER FAW, NCTM, D.M.A., Professor Emerita at Elon University, is a pianist, teacher, and scholar whose musical passions include the full range of piano solo and collaborative repertoire, teaching young teachers to teach piano, and mentoring undergraduate musical research. Recent honors include being named 2021 North Carolina Music Teachers Association Teacher of the Year, MTNA 2022 National Teacher of the Year, and MTNA Foundation Fellow for 2022. Her scholarship and performance activity includes a specialty in the music of Béla Bartók. She won first prize at the 1990 Bartók-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition and has published and presented many articles and programs to local, state and national music teachers on Bartók and other musical topics. Dr. Fischer studied at Centenary College of Louisiana, UNC-Chapel Hill, UT Austin, and the Vienna Conservatory. Her teachers include Constance Knox Carroll, Danielle Martin, David Renner, Amanda Vick Lethco, Martha Hilley and Elliott Antokoletz. She is active in NCMTA and MTNA, and lives on a Christmas tree farm in Sparta, NC with her husband, Steve.
Phone: 336-263-7013
Email: fischer@elon.edu
Studio/Store Location, Serving: All of Western NC, Alleghany County
Offering Piano Lessons for: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Elementary, Middle/High School, College, Adults
Teaching Styles: Classical
Offering Other Lessons for: group, virtual
Other Musical Related Services: Performances, presentations, masterclasses, consulting
Address: Sparta
Bio: B.S. Degree University of Minnesota in Music Education and Applied String Bass, Registered Piano Technician with 40 years experience, Owner of Freeburg Pianos in Hendersonville, NC.
Email: keithfreeburg@yahoo.com
Phone: 828-551-0095
Website: www.freeburgpianos.com
Studio/Store Location, Serving: All of Western NC
Piano Technician/Dealer Offering These Services: Tuning, Moving, Rebuilding, New Piano Sales, Used Piano Sales
Other Music Related Services: Concert Tuning, Piano Appraisals, Consignment Sales
Address: 2314-D Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville, NC 28791
Bio: Eric Fricke is a concert organist and pianist, improviser, composer, and collaborative musician. He has appeared on the national stage as an organist since 2007, with notable appearances at Entertainment Gathering 2008 (later broadcast on TEDTalks), on NPR’s From The Top, and Carnegie Hall. From 2017 to 2019, Eric was the Principal Organist of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, NM and organist for the Santa Fe Symphony. As a pianist, Eric performed with the Santa Fe Opera for their 2017 production of Stephen Paulus’ Shoes for the Santo Niño. Eric began his musical studies at the age of 5. He studied organ with Cameron Carpenter and Lew Williams, piano with celebrated ballet pianist Miles Fusco, and voice with Joan Jacobowsky, Professor Emerita of Salem College. He holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from St. John’s College of Santa Fe, NM, and a Graduate Certificate in Injury-Preventive Keyboard Technique from Salem College. He has taught piano and voice for over a decade in his private studio and at numerous schools and musical organizations.
Email: ericfricative@gmail.com
Phone: 480-734-3714
Web Site: https://ericfricke.com/