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Dr. Ronald BLaha has spent 17 years studying alternative health and medicine. He combines Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Massage, and other modalities to keep people healthy naturally. DallasChiroMassage
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| In 1972 at the age of 11, Stephen Claunch worked at S&M Music in Abilene until 1978. In 1978, Mr. Claunch joined Claunch Piano Service where he serviced all of West Texas including 14 Universities, 5 Symphony Orchestras, and over 200 Schools. He provided technical service while touring for the London Piano Duo and Leonid Kuzman. In 2001 Mr. Claunch joined Steinway Hall – Dallas and became their Chief Concert Technician. Steve has been to Steinway & Sons for training 5 times. |
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Vicki Jacks Conway is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Texas at Tyler and organist at Greggton United Methodist Church in Longview. She is also a consultant in the study of movement and learning, completing courses through Foster Educational Group and the Educational Kinesiology Foundation, and beginning a program called Developmental Fitness in 1998. She has conducted in-service workshops and clinics for numerous public and private schools and music teachers associations, showing the relationships between gross motor skills, performance skills, and cognitive processing. Conference presentations have included the 2000 Texas Music Educators Association Convention, 2002 -2006 Piano Wellness Seminars, the 2002 Texas Baptist Weekday Education Preschool Conference at Baylor University, and the 2005 and 2007 Texas Music Teachers Association Conventions.
Mrs. Conway graduated summa cum laude from Stephen F. Austin State University with a double major in piano and organ performance, receiving the Lenvill Martin Outstanding Music Graduate Award. She continued piano study at Baylor University, earning a Master of Music degree in piano performance. Additional graduate study in piano performance and pedagogy was completed with Jane Magrath at the University of Oklahoma, and she has performed for the University of Houston International Piano Festival Master Classes. She is currently a student of Sheila Paige.
She lives in Longview with her husband Bret and their three children: Alicia, Lindsey and Brittany. She enjoys performing duo recitals with Mary Rich, and supporting her family’s activities in art, music, diving, and cooking.
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Thomas Greenfield has two degrees from TCU--B.A. in English and a Bachelor of Music in theory and violin. He has played professionally with both the San Antonio and Fort Worth symphonies. One of the reasons that he quit playing many years ago was pain. It gradually increased from a sometime annoying ache in the left shoulder and neck to a full time, painful muscle contraction that resulted in the left shoulder being elevated almost two inches above the other. The cessation of professional playing stopped a lot of the pain but not all of it. Next came low back and psiatic nerve pain that was occasionally devastating. He was driven to find alternative solutions to surgery and was pleased to learn of the tremendous benefits of massage, reflexology, yoga breath-work, particular exercise routines like Somatics, nutrition, and herbs and vitamins.
The self-application of all these disciplines has given him a virtually pain-free existence that he enjoys sharing with his clients. He uses this knowledge to help his violin students be able to avoid the same mistakes that he made.
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Dr. Andrea McAlister is Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She previously taught at Capital
University, Ohio Wesleyan University, and the University of Cincinnati's
College-Conservatory of Music where she also received her Doctorate of
Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. As a pedagogue, Dr.
McAlister has presented numerous lecture recitals on 20th-century music
and was recently published in the pedagogical periodicals Keyboard
Companion and American Music Teacher.
A certified mat Pilates instructor, Dr. McAlister has studied on both
mat and reformer since 2002. With the addition of her studies in yoga
and the Alexander Technique, she has created a series of exercises to
bring a greater sense of physical and mental awareness to musicians.
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Russell McTague holds degrees from Susquehanna University and Kean University and has completed the graduate certification program in Psychosynthesis Therapy at the New York Institute. He continued his studies at the Institute for Music and Imagery, New York University, Rutgers University and Oxford University, England. Mr. McTague is certified as a music teacher, speech correctionist, guidance counselor and social worker. An experienced clinician and consultant in private practice, Mr. McTague’s primary goal is to help individuals identify and work through inner blocks that prevent them from enjoying richer emotions, creativity and spiritual awareness. Mr. McTague lives and works in Lawrenceville, NJ, where he enjoys reading extensively in psychology and spiritual development, cooking and planning travel experiences to a
variety of places.
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Phyllis Richmond is a Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique with fifteen years experience teaching privately and for performing arts programs including the University of North Texas, Rice, Southern Methodist University, Baylor, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and the Piano Wellness Seminar. Currently, she teaches the Alexander Technique through the University of North Texas College of Music and the University of Texas at Arlington Continuing Education Program. She also teaches private lessons in Dallas and Arlington. Ms. Richmond has written extensively about the application of the Alexander Technique to music, theater, and dance. She is the Editor of AmSAT News, the journal of the American Society for the Alexander Technique.
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