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Joanne Smith is
professor emeritus of Piano and Pedagogy from the University of
Michigan School of Music where she served as piano pedagogy
instructor, director of the Keyboard Studies Division and Piano
Pedagogy Laboratory Program, as well as coordinator of the Class
Piano Program and graduate Piano Performance and Pedagogy degree programs.
Before coming to
Michigan in 1983, she was director of the Creative Arts program at
Bowling Green State University in Ohio and pedagogy instructor at
both Bowling Green and the University of Toledo. She holds
performance degrees from McPhail College of Music (magna cum laude)
and the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music with further study
at Oberlin Conservatory and the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Denver.
Joanne Smith has
performed and given workshops, clinics, and master classes throughout
the United States with presentations at conventions of the Music
Teachers National Association (MTNA), World Piano Pedagogy
Conference, National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, and many more.
Mrs. Smith held
offices in MTNA organizations as President of the Michigan Music
Teachers Association, President of the Northwest Ohio District of
OMTA, and Chair of the MMTA Wurlitzer Collegiate Competition.
Smith is listed in The
International Who’s Who of Music and the Outstanding
Young Women of America. She has served as music reviewer for Piano
Quarterly and The American Music Teacher and has written
articles for Keyboard Companion. Her publications include For
the Young Virtuoso with Jerome Rose and The Developing Artist
Piano Literature Series, Level 3 with Faber and Faber. She is
currently working on an anthology series of piano literature with The
FJH Music Company, where she also serves as pedagogy consultant and
senior editor.
In 2002, Joanne
Smith was named National Music Teacher of the Year by the MTNA. She
represented the state of Michigan, where she was 2001 Michigan Music
Teacher of the Year.
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