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Associate Professor of Music

Education

BA, Goshen College, 1991
M MUS, Westminster Choir College, 1993

Piano, Piano Pedagogy, Keyboard Theory, Humanities

A member of the music faculty since 1995, Beverly Lapp teaches piano, piano pedagogy, and humanities and she served as director of international study terms in Peru and the Dominican Republic. She is a member of the internships/practica committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She regularly gives workshops and presentations for area piano teachers groups and presented a paper on models for music departments at liberal arts colleges at the College Music Society national conference in September 2010. She is co-coordinator of the Piano Workshop and Academy, a four-day summer event for piano teachers and high school students. Lapp’s undergraduate and graduate degrees are from Goshen College and Westminster Choir College of Rider University. She is currently a candidate for the Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University where she is researching the study of music by the generalist student.