Alfred's Basic Piano Prep Course: Activity & Ear Training Book E: Piano Book
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Alfred's Basic Piano Prep Course: Activity & Ear Training Book E: Piano Book
For the Young Beginner
By Gayle Kowalchyk and E. L. Lancaster
Level: E
Item: 00-6293
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The Activity & Ear Training Books include coloring activities to help students recognize notes, musical symbols, rhythms and more, both aurally and visually. Each activity is carefully designed to encourage teacher/student interaction. Every activity coordinates page-by-page with the Lesson Books.
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About the Authors
Dr. Gayle Kowalchyk is a pianist and educator at California State University, Northridge, where she teaches class piano, individual piano instruction, and piano pedagogy. She earned a bachelor's degree in piano performance from Ohio University, a master's degree in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in piano pedagogy from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Her professional accomplishments include faculty positions at Eastern Illinois University and Oklahoma Baptist University, where she directed piano preparatory programs and coordinated class piano instruction. Dr. Kowalchyk has served as a clinician and adjudicator at major conferences including the Music Teachers National Association, Music Educators National Conference, National Group Piano Symposium, and World Piano Pedagogy Conference. In collaboration with her husband, Dr. E. L. Lancaster, she has written more than 300 educational piano publications, among them Alfred's Premier Piano Course and Music for Little Mozarts.
From 1979 to 1982, Dr. Kowalchyk taught at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. She and her husband operated an independent piano studio in Norman, Oklahoma for fifteen years before relocating to the Los Angeles area, where she currently works as a clinician with Alfred Music alongside her teaching responsibilities.
Her professional accomplishments include faculty positions at Eastern Illinois University and Oklahoma Baptist University, where she directed piano preparatory programs and coordinated class piano instruction. Dr. Kowalchyk has served as a clinician and adjudicator at major conferences including the Music Teachers National Association, Music Educators National Conference, National Group Piano Symposium, and World Piano Pedagogy Conference. In collaboration with her husband, Dr. E. L. Lancaster, she has written more than 300 educational piano publications, among them Alfred's Premier Piano Course and Music for Little Mozarts.
From 1979 to 1982, Dr. Kowalchyk taught at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. She and her husband operated an independent piano studio in Norman, Oklahoma for fifteen years before relocating to the Los Angeles area, where she currently works as a clinician with Alfred Music alongside her teaching responsibilities.
Dr. E. L. Lancaster served as Executive Editor for Piano at Alfred Music and currently holds an adjunct piano faculty position at California State University, Northridge. He earned degrees from Murray State University, the University of Illinois, and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D.
At the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Lancaster spent nearly two decades as Professor of Music (1979–1998), establishing both the master's and doctoral programs in piano pedagogy in 1980. He guided more than 50 doctoral students as their Major Professor and taught pre-college students through the Piano Pedagogy Laboratory Program, which integrated group and private instruction. During this period, he and his wife, Dr. Gayle Kowalchyk, also operated a large independent piano studio in Norman from 1981 to 1996.
Lancaster's leadership extends to the Music Teachers National Association, where he served as National Chairman of Group Piano, National Chairman of Student Chapters, and as 2020 National Conference Chair. His numerous honors include the Regents Award for Superior Teaching (1984), a David Ross Boyd Professorship (1991), the Provost's Outstanding Academic Advising Award (1996), and recognition as a Signature Sinfonian by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in 2013. Murray State University presented him with the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award, its highest honor.
At the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Lancaster spent nearly two decades as Professor of Music (1979–1998), establishing both the master's and doctoral programs in piano pedagogy in 1980. He guided more than 50 doctoral students as their Major Professor and taught pre-college students through the Piano Pedagogy Laboratory Program, which integrated group and private instruction. During this period, he and his wife, Dr. Gayle Kowalchyk, also operated a large independent piano studio in Norman from 1981 to 1996.
Lancaster's leadership extends to the Music Teachers National Association, where he served as National Chairman of Group Piano, National Chairman of Student Chapters, and as 2020 National Conference Chair. His numerous honors include the Regents Award for Superior Teaching (1984), a David Ross Boyd Professorship (1991), the Provost's Outstanding Academic Advising Award (1996), and recognition as a Signature Sinfonian by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in 2013. Murray State University presented him with the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award, its highest honor.