Pianist Elvina Pearce Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Elvina Pearce, taught piano and was the director of the Division of Preparatory and Community Music at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She also taught for 14 years at Northwestern University. Pearce recently received the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.

Pearce still teaches piano at home to a handful of students. She has recently completed work on a book about teaching piano that will be published this fall.

Here is a video showing Pearce educating a young student.