2025 Goshen College Piano Pedagogy Workshop
2025 Goshen College Piano Pedagogy Workshop
- Dates: June 17-18, 2025
- Registration Deadline: June 2, 2025
- Cost: $20 (Register by May 1 to save $5!)
- Fee includes Concert and Masterclass admission, pedagogy workshop, and Wednesday coffee with Marvin Blickenstaff
The Goshen College Pedagogy Workshop is pleased to welcome piano and music instructors to a special pedagogy workshop, to be held Tuesday June 17 – Wednesday June 18, with Guest Artist Marvin Blickenstaff, in collaboration with the 2025 Goshen College Piano Camp. Blickenstaff, acclaimed pianist and pedagogue and former Goshen College professor, will perform a solo recital on Tuesday June 17 at 6:30pm in Rieth Recital Hall. On Wednesday June 18, Blickenstaff will present two student masterclasses from the GC Piano Camp participants, and lead a special workshop and coffee hour for participating teachers.
Marvin Blickenstaff is known among piano teachers throughout the country for his teaching, lecturing, performing, and publishing. He has presented pedagogical workshops throughout the USA and abroad. The Marvin Blickenstaff Endowment Fund was established in his honor by the Music Teachers National Association Foundation. He was awarded in 2009 with MTNA’s highest honor, the MTNA Achievement Award, and was named Fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 2007. In 2022, The Frances Clark Center created The Marvin Blickenstaff Institute for Teaching Excellence, which states: “Created to amplify the extraordinary lifework of world-renowned educator and pianist Mr. Marvin Blickenstaff, the Institute serves to advance teaching practice and elevate the music teaching profession.”
Blickenstaff serves as a piano editor for the Frederick Harris Music Company (Toronto) and has published Celebration Series: A Handbook for Teachers with co-authors Cathy Albergo and Reid Alexander. Music Pathways, a 36-book instructional series was co-authored by Blickenstaff, Lynn Freeman Olson and Louise Bianchi. Notable editions by Blickenstaff include Grieg: Short Pieces and Bach: Dances. Blickenstaff has been on the editorial board of The American Music Teacher and is an associate editor of the periodical Keyboard Companion. Most recently, Blickenstaff published a compendium of pedagogical wisdom, Inspired Piano Teaching, amassed from over 60 years of teaching.
Blickenstaff’s teaching career is associated with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Goshen College, where he taught for over twenty years, and from 2000-2013 he was President of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy. He now resides in the greater Philadelphia area and is teaching at The College of New Jersey (Ewing), the Westminster Choir College and Conservatory of Rider University and The New School for Music Study (Princeton). Blickenstaff holds degrees from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University where he received both performing and academic honors.
Workshop fee is $20. Fee includes Concert admission, and all activities and lunch on Tuesday. Register by May 1 to save $5! The Registration deadline is June 2.