Latest News
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Open Position: Executive Director
The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy (FCCKP) seeks a fulltime Executive Director. The Executive Director is the Chief Executive Officer for the organization, overseeing and coordinating operations and budgeting for the School, Conference and Magazine. This includes leadership and management of staff, fundraising, oversight of the budget, providing guidance… Read More -
Clavier Companion: The Art of Practicing
Two master teachers, Scott McBride Smith and Bruce Berr, share ideas on practicing based on their decades of experience. Why do we practice? Broad questions like this will be addressed, as well as specific methods of achieving effective practice. Read More -
Publications
We offer publications by leaders in the field that will be of great interest to any piano teacher. They are frequently used both in collegiate pedagogy courses and by independent teachers. Recent additions include "The Success Factor in Piano Teaching" by Elvina Pearce. Read More
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Welcome To The Frances Clark Center For Keyboard Pedagogy
The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy is a not-for-profit educational institution (501c3) located in Kingston, New Jersey.
The work of the Center is based on the philosophy of music educator Frances Clark (1905-1998) whose life work revolutionized the field of music education in the twentieth century.
Dr. Clark believed passionately in the transformative power of music making in the life of every person - not just the young, not just the gifted, not just the privileged. What set Frances Clark apart from her predecessors, however, was her recognition that the quality of musical experience is directly related to the quality of the music teaching-learning experience. Thus she placed singular importance on the preparation of teachers.
"There is music in every child. The teacher's job is to find it and nurture it." — Frances Clark
The Center advances its goals and serves local, national, and international audiences through: The New School for Music Study, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, Clavier Companion magazine, the Piano Pedagogy Forum, and several print publications.