Dr. Rebecca Shockley 2023 Jury Member
Rebecca Payne Shockley is Professor Emerita of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Minnesota, where she taught and oversaw the class piano program for 28 years. A native of Cincinnati, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance from Indiana University, a D.M.A. in piano pedagogy from the University of Colorado, and a Performer's Licentiate from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her principal teachers included Joseph Battista, Sidney Foster, Guy Jonson, and Guy Duckworth. Prior to her appointment at the University of Minnesota, she was on the piano faculty at Eastern Kentucky University. She has given workshops on mapping and related practice strategies for music teacher organizations and at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and in England, Canada, Greece, Taiwan, China, and South Korea. Her recent activities include co-presentations on Mapping Music for ISME, CMS, MTNA, and Texas Music Educators with Dr. Melissa Colgin, Professor of Flute at UT-El Paso and principal flutist with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra.
Shockley chaired the MTNA Pedagogy Saturday Committee for the 2004 and 2005 Conferences, and for 12 years she headed the Committee on Learning Theory for the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. Shealso served on the Advisory Board and as a clinician for Piano Discoveries, a beginning piano method published by Lorenz in 2001. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the major piano journals, and her book, Mapping Music: For Faster Learning and Secure Memory - A Guide for Piano Teachers and Students, was published by A-R Editions in 1997 and reprinted in 2001 and 2012. In 2002,a Korean translation of the book was published by Hanyang University Press.
She has given powerpoint presentations on the life and career of her mother, Dorothy Stolzenbach Payne, for the Twin Cities SAI Alumnae Chapter, The Cincinnati Keyboard Club, and the Minnesota Music Teachers State Convention (June 2015). After gathering materials from her mother’s life for the Dorothy S. Payne Archives, currently being curated at the University of Cincinnati, she is now preparing a newly revised edition of her mother’s memoirs, Is There a Piano in the House? The Life Story and Thoughts of Dorothy StolzenbachPayne, originally published by the Keyboard Club in 1985 and 2010.
Rebecca Payne Shockley is Professor Emerita of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Minnesota, where she taught and oversaw the class piano program for 28 years. A native of Cincinnati, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance from Indiana University, a D.M.A. in piano pedagogy from the University of Colorado, and a Performer's Licentiate from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her principal teachers included Joseph Battista, Sidney Foster, Guy Jonson, and Guy Duckworth. Prior to her appointment at the University of Minnesota, she was on the piano faculty at Eastern Kentucky University. She has given workshops on mapping and related practice strategies for music teacher organizations and at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and in England, Canada, Greece, Taiwan, China, and South Korea. Her recent activities include co-presentations on Mapping Music for ISME, CMS, MTNA, and Texas Music Educators with Dr. Melissa Colgin, Professor of Flute at UT-El Paso and principal flutist with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra.
Shockley chaired the MTNA Pedagogy Saturday Committee for the 2004 and 2005 Conferences, and for 12 years she headed the Committee on Learning Theory for the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. Shealso served on the Advisory Board and as a clinician for Piano Discoveries, a beginning piano method published by Lorenz in 2001. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the major piano journals, and her book, Mapping Music: For Faster Learning and Secure Memory - A Guide for Piano Teachers and Students, was published by A-R Editions in 1997 and reprinted in 2001 and 2012. In 2002,a Korean translation of the book was published by Hanyang University Press.
She has given powerpoint presentations on the life and career of her mother, Dorothy Stolzenbach Payne, for the Twin Cities SAI Alumnae Chapter, The Cincinnati Keyboard Club, and the Minnesota Music Teachers State Convention (June 2015). After gathering materials from her mother’s life for the Dorothy S. Payne Archives, currently being curated at the University of Cincinnati, she is now preparing a newly revised edition of her mother’s memoirs, Is There a Piano in the House? The Life Story and Thoughts of Dorothy StolzenbachPayne, originally published by the Keyboard Club in 1985 and 2010.
