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Meet the Director:
Amy Aberg McLelland, NCTM
Amy Aberg McLelland is an award-winning pianist, composer, and pedagogue with more than three decades of teaching and performing experience. Her playing has been described as “ravishing… with a wonderful variety of tone colors and nuance of interpretation.” She has appeared as soloist with orchestras, on public radio, and in collaborative recitals across the United States. McLelland holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in piano performance, with additional post-graduate study in New York City and Europe. She is nationally certified through MTNA and is certified at the Instructor Level with the Golandsky Piano Institute. Since 1996, she has pursued intensive study of the Taubman Approach under Edna Golandsky and John Bloomfield, serving as an assistant teacher at international symposiums held at Williams College and Princeton University. In addition to her performing and teaching career, McLelland is an active composer. Her works seek to be accessible and practical for performers while remaining colorful, original, and stylistically expansive. Whether writing sacred music, pedagogical repertoire, or concert works, her compositional voice bridges structure and imagination, craft and creativity. At The Piano Arts Studio, she continues to refine a model of piano study that honors both artistic depth and healthy, sustainable technique — enabling musicians of all levels to reach their fullest potential. 
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Student performing in Masterclass Workshop at UA
Students with clinician after participating in a workshop at the MTNA National Convention.
Dr. Jeffrey McLelland (Organ/Composition/Theory/Conducting):
Dr. McLelland has concertized widely across the U.S. and Europe in such locations as St. Thomas Church, NYC, Coventry Cathedral, England, Musikdagar Sweden, Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, Carnegie Hall, with the Alabama Boy Choir, and has been featured on the nationally broadcast radio program, PIPE DREAMS. 
Dr, McLelland is the recipient of numerous prizes and winner of many national competitions including the MTNA Collegiate Artist Competition, and AGO NYACOP Competition, McLelland is a former Regional Councillor for the southeast region IV of the American Guild of Organists.
A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he holds BM, MM, and DMA degrees in organ performance and is a graduate of Eastman School of Music, University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. 
Amy with student performing at Galleria Mall
The "Taubman Approach" to piano playing is "a groundbreaking analysis of the mostly invisible motions that function underneath a virtuoso technique and has helped pianists from all over the world overcome technical limitations, improve tone production and other components of expressive playing, as well as cure playing-related injuries." --- Golandsky Piano Institute 
Amy with Edna Golandsky, Williams College Golandsky International Summer Piano Symposium
Summer Workshops
Students meeting composer Robert Vandall at MTNA national convention.
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Student Performances (click the following photo to travel to separate webpage):
Teacher Performances and Compositions (click photo to travel to separate webpage):
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