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A doctoral graduate of Vanderbilt University, Professor Reid Alexander is an internationally recognized figure in piano pedagogy. Credits include presentations and recitals in over 40 states and in countries abroad. He recently returned from Korea where he gave guest lectures and master classes at several universities in Seoul and was the invited Keynote Speaker and featured recitalist-clinician for the annual meeting of that country’s prestigious Korean Association of Piano Pedagogy. A finalist in the first Gina Bachauer Piano Competition, his early piano study was with Gerald Snyder and Stanley Fletcher, with further coaching under prominent artists such as Ruth Slenczynska and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. His widely used publications encompass the new 5th edition of the bibliographic resource on piano literature, Piano Repertoire Guide: Intermediate and Advanced Literature (Stipes, 2011), the 9th edition of Keyboard Musicianship (Stipes), and the highly regarded 27 volume Celebrate Composer Series (Frederick Harris). Earlier in his career, the University of Illinois honored Dr. Alexander as a faculty recipient of a campus award for teaching excellence. During the 1999-2000 academic year Dr. Alexander served as Professor of Piano and Director of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma.