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Dr.
Marlais is one of the most prolific authors in the
field of educational piano books and an exclusive
writer for The FJH Music Company Inc. The critically
acclaimed and award-winning piano series, Succeeding
at the Piano® A Method for Everyone, Succeeding
with the Masters®, The Festival Collection®,
In Recital®, Sight Reading and Rhythm Every Day®,
Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory Every Day®,
and The FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions,
among others, included in The FJH Pianist’s
Curriculum® by Helen Marlais, are designed
to guide students from the beginner through advanced
levels. Dr. Marlais has given pedagogical workshops
in virtually every state in the country and is an
FJH showcase presenter at the national piano teachers’
conventions.
As
well as being the Director of Keyboard Publications
for The FJH Music Company, Dr. Marlais is also an
Associate Professor of Music at Grand Valley State
University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches
piano majors, directs the piano pedagogy program,
and coordinates the young beginner piano program.
She also maintains an active piano studio of beginner
through high school age award-winning students.
Dr.
Marlais has performed and presented throughout the
U.S., Canada, South Korea, Italy, England, France,
Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, China,
Australia, New Zealand, and Russia. She has recorded
on Gasparo, Centaur and Audite record labels with
her husband, concert clarinetist Arthur Campbell.
Their recording, Music for Clarinet and Piano,
was nominated for the 2013 International Classical
Music Awards, one of the most prestigious distinctions
available to classical musicians today. She has also
recorded numerous educational piano CD’s for
Stargrass Records®. She has performed with members
of the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Grand Rapids,
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Beijing National Symphony
Orchestras, and has premiered many new works by contemporary
composers from the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Dr.
Marlais received her DM in piano performance and pedagogy
from Northwestern University, her MFA in piano performance
from Carnegie Mellon University, and was awarded the
Outstanding Alumna in the Arts from the University
of Toledo, where she received her bachelor of music
degree. Visit: www.helenmarlais.com
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