ANNE CRAIG, LLC
MELBOURNE, FLORIDA

For the past seventeen years I have been teaching a variety of music classes at Kapi’olani Community College, University of Hawai’i system: four levels of group piano classes, applied piano lessons, and music theory. I also developed additional and specialized classes that were added to the curriculum: a performing synthesizer ensemble, piano by ear/ improvisation class, and applied flute lessons. These classes have now been an integral part of my teaching load for the past 15 years, and I have developed the synthesizer ensemble into a group that performs 4-6 times a semester, both on campus as well as in the community. In addition, I am the coordinator for the monthly music repertoire recitals featuring piano, guitar, voice, and flute students from the applied studio classes, as well as advanced students from the group lesson classes, the synthesizer ensemble, and occasional guest performers. I have developed these recitals since 1993, and more recently have highlighted those students who plan to transfer as music majors; that specific student population has increased substantially in the past six years. I enjoy teaching, composing, and performing; my most recent performance at Mozart House in March 2009 was a collaborative two-piano rendition of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto, Op. 18: Allegro scherzando, accompanying my student Ayano Saito. I have served three terms as the music discipline coordinator, was recently promoted to Associate Professor, and am currently honored to have advanced to the finals for the 2009 BOR Excellence in Teaching Award. I have been in the University of Hawai’i system for 25 years: prior to teaching at KCC, I taught at Leeward Community College for eight years, as well as one semester at Windward Community College. My earliest teaching experience was in Cincinnati, OH, while I was finishing my master’s degree at CCM (the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music). I was hired by the Baldwin Piano Company to teach in their largest music education lab school, after taking their extensive Master Teacher Training Program in group piano methods. I then became the lab demonstration specialist for visiting local schools, and taught two-year-old through adult classes for two years in all four of the Cincinnati lab school locations: Gilbert St., Kenwood, Westwood, and Anderson Township.