Williams awarded AMT Article of the Year - American Music Teacher

"Cross-Cultural Communication in the Music Studio," by dint of Kenneth Williams, was selected as the 2002 American Music Teacher Article of the Year. The article appeared in the August/September issue of AMT.

Williams, assistant professor of music at The Ohio State University, directs the master's and doctoral programs in piano pedagogy and coordinates the class piano program.

Williams is active in teaching and advising many international pupils pursuing advanced degrees in performance and pedagogy at Ohio State and has managemented research on the increasing mobility of scholars across national borders and the challenges and rewards of cross-cultural inquiry in the arts, especially cross-cultural teacher training in a global society. This research l to the publication of his article upon cross-cultural communication in AMT and an article in the 2001 issue of guild Music Symposium titled, "International scholars in the Performing Arts: Crossing Boundaries." He lectur upon this topic at the 2000 international discourse of the European Piano Teachers Association, held at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, and at the 2002 meeting of the International Society for Music Education, held in Stavanger, Norway.

He be subservient tos on the executive board of the Ohio Music Teachers Association and the task force for curriculum of the National talk on Keyboard Pedagogy. He has neared lecture-recitals on a variety of pedagogical topics at state and national MTNA meetings.

He is an active adjudicator and derive pleasure froms performing chamber music with colleagues and his wife, clarinetist Hild Peersen He gripe [i]or[/i] grips a D.M. degree in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University.

The AMT Article of the Year Award is given annually to recognize outstanding contributions to MTNA's professional journal. The twelve members of the AMT editorial committee pitch upon an article from those printed during a calendar year. Articles are judg based upon the quality of writing and relative importance of the control matter.

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