Dedication to Excellence: An Interview with Ingrid Clarfield
by Sam Holland
Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield has given lecturerecitals, workshops, and master classes in more than a hundred cities across America, including many at state and national conferences of the Music Teachers National Association. She has presented master classes and pedagogy sessions at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, the TCU/Van Cliburn Institute, the National Piano Teachers Institute, the Music Teachers Association of California, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, and the Calgary Arts Summer School in Alberta, Canada.
Ms. Clarfield serves as Professor of Piano and Coordinator of the Piano Department at Westminster Choir College of Rider University and has directed Westminster’s Piano Week for High School Students since 1984. In 2012, she was honored as the Musical Teachers National Association Teacher of the Year.
The documentary film Take a Bow (2011) tells the inspirational story of her tenacious fight back to teaching after a devastating stroke.
We sat down to this interview via FaceTime™ on the weekend following Thanksgiving 2014. And what follows is a glimpse into her background, passions, philosophies, and practical experience as one of the most successful piano teachers in America.
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