Chen Hui
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, Australia
hui.chen@cdu.edu.au
Chen Hui received a Bachelor of Music from NSW State Conservatorium of Music in Australia in piano performance. She has performed extensively in piano recitals, chamber music and as a collaborative artist. Currently, she holds the position of Lecturer in Piano at Charles Darwin University. Chen Hui completed 40 hours of intensive, hands-on training with Barbara Lister-Sink in the summer of 2008.

Chen Hui is a gifted teacher and performer. She is dedicated to helping her students learn the very best principles of whole-body use at the piano She received a grant for travel to the United States study in North Carolina with me in the summer of 2007. She is an outstanding person of warmth, positive spirit and investigative intellect. I would whole-heartedly recommend her as a teacher, as well as a spokesperson for the principles of the Lister-Sink Method. Back to List

Kathleen Ryan Clute, pianist & composer
Topaz Productions
P.O. Box 474
Mountainair, New Mexico 87036
505/847-0306
kathleen@kathleenryan.com
www.kathleenryan.com
Kathleen Ryan Clute studied with me at Duke University in 1975-76. Her musical path has led to a multifaceted career. In the summer of 2006, she returned to North Carolina to complete and Intensive Technique Training Week with me, and renewed her interest in technical freedom. She was most recently selected as the 2008 commissioned composer by the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico, to compose book 2 of Verbs, a set of preludes for piano left-hand alone. Verbs, Book 2, will be premiered at the PMTNM convention in November 2008 by Santa Fe pianist Keith Snell. Her compositions are haunting and evocative and her piano playing is extremely sensitive. Back to List

Katherine Faricy, DMA
St. Thomas University, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
kfaricy@comcast.net

EDUCATION
BME – Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
MFA  in Piano Performance – University of Minnesota
Also:  four years of private study with Madame Lili Kraus at Texas Christian University

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN:
2001-present    Director of the Music Institute for Piano Pedagogy
1997-2001       Interim Director of Graduate Program in
                        Piano Pedagogy & Performance
1985-present    Founder and Director of the University of
                        St. Thomas Summer Music Institute
                                    
1974-present   Piano Faculty
1958 -1999     Maintained a private piano studio

College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
            Adjunct Instructor in Piano

Manchester, CT:
            Supervisor of Music for Elementary Schools

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(1980 to present - Many repeated appearances for most of these organizations)
• National Music Teachers Association 2002 National Convention  • Green Bay Piano Teachers [WI] • Augustana College-Annual Summer Pedagogy Workshops (SD)    • Apple Valley Music Teachers Association (MN)    • Burnsville Area Music Teachers Association (MN)  • Butler University (IN)  • College of St. Catherine Summer School (MN)   • Grand Rapids Summer Workshops (MN)    • Minneapolis Teachers Forum • Minnesota Music Teachers Association (at state conventions)   • Rochester Music Teachers Association (MN)   • St. Croix Valley Teachers Association (WI)   • St. Paul Piano Teachers Association (MN)   • University of St. Thomas Summer Music Institute (MN) - yearly    • University of Wisconsin-Madison Educational Telephone Network - Piano Pedagogy Workshop for whole state (WI)    • West Suburban Piano Teachers Association (MN)    • Willmar Piano Teachers Association MN)
  
                                    Selected Workshop Topics: 
• Aesthetics and Style in Music of Haydn and Mozart :  • Impressionist Art and the Music of Debussy    • Artistic Pedaling - Pedagogy  and Performance    • Baroque Performance Practices      • Principles and Pedagogy of Piano Technique    • Practice Strategies- Prescriptions for Success     • Prevention, Identification and Rehabilitation of Pianists' Injuries  • Romantic Perfomance Practices • The Stylistic Uses of Rubato in Baroque, Classic and Romantic Periods   • Styles and Topics in Classic Music

ADJUDICATOR for numerous competitions and festivals

MEMBER of  Music Teachers National Association ( is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music) and Minnesota Music Teachers Association.

PUBLICATION
“Artistic Pedal Technique: Lessons for Intermediate and Advanced Pianists”. Frederick Harris Music Co. 2004

EXPERIENCE STUDYING OR TEACHING INJURY-PREVENTIVE TECHNIQUE
 “ I have been dedicated to teaching healthy technique for the past 30 years, and have successfully re-trained and rehabilitated many pianists with injuries. I am well-acquainted with the work of Barbara Lister-Sink and a great admirer of it. I incorporate her ideas and techniques in my own teaching. I use Alexander techniques in my approach, and refer students to Alexander practitioners here in the Twin Cities.”

BIOGRAPHY
A frequent recitalist, Faricy has been soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis and the St. Paul Civic Orchestra and the professional St. Thomas Festival Orchestra.  She has performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, throughout the upper-midwest, and has had many of her recitals broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio, including the "Prairie Home Companion."

She has performed regularly with Dr. James Callahan in the critically acclaimed Callahan & Faricy duo-piano team, and performed for many years with Hanley Daws, associate concertmaster of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as part of  the Daws/Faricy Duo, with whom she presented a debut recital in Carnegie Recital Hall where they premiered a duo sonata written for them by William Bolcom.

Dr. Faricy is a nationally noted teacher and leader in the field of pedagogy. She studied injury-preventive keyboard technique with me at an Intensive Technique Training Summer Week in the late 1990’s. We have remained in close touch ever since. I have great respect for her teaching abilities and her dedication to the finest in pedagogy. Dr. Faricy is also author of a noted, critically acclaimed book on piano pedaling. Back to List

Shinichi Furuya, PhD
Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
auditory.motor@gmail.com
http://auditory.motor.googlepages.com/english
1980: Born in Hyogo, Japan
Currently, post-doctoral researcher at  Kwansei Gakuin University, JPN
Research Goal: To elucidate sensory-motor control and learning mechanisms underlying artistic, virtuosic, and expressive piano performance without suffering from playing-related injuries.
Education
2008: PhD in Medical Science,
   Graduate School of Medicine,Osaka University
2004: Master of Human Science,
   Graduate School of Human Science, Osaka University
2002: Bachelor of Engineering, 
   School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
Career (Awards and Education)
2000:  4th prize at Wakayama Music Competition
2001:  Diploma at Japan Classical Music Competition (Tokyo)
2004:  4th prize at Kobe International Music Competition
2004:  Performed as a soloist at Ernest Bloch Music Festival (Oregon, USA)
2004:  Completion of  'Freeing the Caged bird' Intensive Technique Training Summer Program with Barbara Lister-Sink (North Carolina, USA)
2007:  Solo Piano Recital (Kobe & Osaka, Japan)
Supervisors include Mr. Tsutomu Naruse and Mr. Keiri Nakano. Teachers include Professors Dido Keuning, Boris Bekhterev, Thomas Mark, Anita King, and Barbara Lister-Sink. Back to List

Duncan MacMillan, DMA
Seminole, Florida
drmacmillan4@verizon.net
BA in music, BA in psychology, Florida State University; MM in piano and music theory, Florida State University; DMA in piano performance and literature, certificate (Artists Diploma) in pedagogy and performance, University of Oklahoma; additional studies at Oxford University, England
Lecturer, Eckerd College, Associate Professor of Piano, Mississippi State University, various previous college and university faculty positions
College Lecturer - Music and also in Ancient Greek studies
Piano Teacher (college and/or privately) since 1977 (all levels)
Performing pianist and harpsichordist  (solo and chamber music)
Composer – works commissioned/premiered by colleges, universities, Churches, solo artists, MTNA Affiliates and other professional organizations;
Active in various executive positions within Florida State MTA
Advisor/board member for various arts organizations including City of Dunedin Early Music Festival, National Society for Arts and Letters Clearwater Chapter
President Florida Music Teachers Association District 9
Founding Member and Conductor, Herald Vocal Arts Ensemble
Informal Collaboration with BLS since 1996

While Duncan MacMillan has never studied formally with me, we have discussed well-coordinated keyboard technique over the past 15 years in dozens of hours of conversations. In my opinion, Dr. MacMillan has one of the most accurate overviews and the best understanding of biomechanics of anyone I have met. I frequently call him for consultation on thorny details and scientific accuracy, as well as for stimulating conversations on music, Greek philosophy or various interdisciplinary topics. He applies a brilliant, investigative intellect to the pursuit of scientific truth, not settling for half-science, inaccurate terminology or confusing explanations. His gifts as a composer are also widely appreciated in central Florida musical communities. Back to List

Marjorie Running Wharton, DMA
Luther College
Decorah, Iowa
whartonm@luther.edu
563 382-1364
Marjorie Running Wharton teaches French, Applied Piano, and Class Piano at Luther College in Decorah IA. She holds a B.A. in French from Luther, an M.A. in French from Tulane University in New Orleans, and a D.M.A. in Piano from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her Doctoral Thesis, Visual Art and Poetry in the Songs of Francis Poulenc, reflects her interest in French poetry, Music, and Art History. She has presented numerous illustrated lecture recitals on topics related to her thesis. She studied the Lister-Sink Method with Barbara Lister-Sink in 1998 and has applied its principles to her playing and teaching for over a decade. Dr. Wharton is particularly interested in teaching students the Basic Stroke and its applications to tension-free technique, beautiful sound, and informed decisions about interpretation.

Dr. Wharton studied with me in the winter of 1998 for a 10-day “emersion” training period. She learned and applied the principles of well-coordinated, injury-preventive technique to her doctoral recital repertory very rapidly and effective. She also had an outstanding cognitive grasp of the approach. Since her study with me, she has had great success in Iowa and at Decorah College with teaching the Basic Stroke and technical freedom, as well as its application to colorful tone production and musical expressiveness.  Dr. Wharton is a brilliant, warm, and compassionate person with a wonderful sense of humor. She would be a fine source of instruction in the Basic Stroke of the Lister-Sink Method. Back to List