{"id":69131,"date":"2016-02-11T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=69131"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:10:40","slug":"mcalister-to-be-featured-in-lecture-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/02\/mcalister-to-be-featured-in-lecture-recital\/","title":{"rendered":"McAlister to be featured in lecture recital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pianist Dr. Andrea McAlister will be featured in a lecture recital of works by Mendelssohn, Faur\u00e9, Dello Joio, Grieg, and transcriptions by Liszt and Wild on Feb.\u00a026 at 7:30 p.m. in the BPAC Recital Hall. <\/span><\/p>\n

The recital kicks off the annual Art of the Piano event hosted by the Delta State University Department of Music. The two-day schedule, Feb.\u00a026-27, is free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Feb. 27, pianists of all ages from Mississippi and Tennessee will come together for a day of performances\u00a0centered on making music through the medium of piano. McAlister will give a lecture for teachers, “Technology and the Brain: How to Teach to the 21st-Century Student.”<\/span><\/p>\n

McAlister is an associate professor of piano pedagogy at Oberlin College. In addition to her teaching activities, she coordinates the class piano program and the secondary piano studies program. She earned her DMA at the University of Cincinnati\u2019s College-Conservatory of Music where she held a teaching assistantship and graduated summa cum laude.<\/span><\/p>\n

McAlister\u2019s research in piano pedagogy, technology, motivation and neural development has been featured at national and international conferences, and she is active as a clinician for state and local teachers. She has recently presented\u00a0at the International Society of Music Education Conference, the Music Teachers National Association Conferences, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, the Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Seminar, the International Conference on Sociology in Music Education, the Piano Wellness Seminar, the International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, and the International Technology, Education, and Development Conference.
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Her\u00a0research has also been featured in the Music Teachers National Association\u2019s American Music Teacher, the MTNA e-journal, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy\u2019s Proceedings, as well as Clavier Companion and Keyboard Companion.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a performer, McAlister has appeared in festivals and recitals throughout the United States, Europe and Canada, including performances with the Aspen Music Festival, the Rome Festival, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and Opera Cleveland.<\/span><\/p>\n

She\u00a0is an active clinician, adjudicator and member of the Music Teachers National Association, and she currently holds the office of president for the Ohio Music Teachers Association. In addition, McAlister serves on the executive steering committee for the MTNA Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Seminar and Editorial Committee for the MTNA e-journal.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Art of the Piano is sponsored by the Delta State University Department of Music.<\/span><\/p>\n

For registration information and schedule details, \u00a0call 662-846-4615 or visit https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/music\/piano-studies\/the-art-of-the-piano\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pianist Dr. Andrea McAlister will be featured in a lecture recital of works by Mendelssohn, Faur\u00e9, Dello Joio, Grieg, and transcriptions by Liszt and Wild on Feb.\u00a026 at 7:30 p.m….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":69132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,296,246],"tags":[31,125,417],"class_list":["post-69131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences","category-facultystaff","category-students","tag-department-of-music","tag-music","tag-piano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69135,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69131\/revisions\/69135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}