as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Joyce Grill*

Retired from teaching at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWLC), Joyce Grill remains active as a recitalist and accompanist.  She is active giving workshops and clinics to student and piano teacher groups across the country.  In May, she conducted the Plymouth (NH) State College Piano Monster Concert, which included several of her compositions.  In October, she presented her new duet collection, Four Hand Fun, at the Warner Bros. Showcase at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas as well as performing selections from a new edition of piano pieces by Dave Brubeck.  She was commissioned by the St. Croix Valley Music Teachers Association to write a duet for their Monster Concert held in November, and has been commissioned by the East Valley Music Teachers Association (Phoenix area) for a duet to be performed in February  She will present selections from her newest piano collections at the Warner Bros. Showcase at the MTNA National Convention in Salt Lake City in March 2003.

Premieres

Played first at Monster Piano Concerts were one-piano four-hand duets Maple Syrup Rag, at the Plymouth State College in May; and Circus March, in the St. Croix Valley concert in October

Performances

Grill's song cycle T'was My One Glory (poems of Emily Dickinson) were on a program at the New Music Festival, held at UWLC in November, with Jean Saladino, voice, and the composer at the piano.  Tim Schorr and Grill performed Four Hand Fun, for one piano, four hands, at a La Crosse Area Music Teachers Association meeting.

Publications

Country Scenes, In Style, In Character, all for piano; Warner Brothers Publications.

*Sigma Alpha Iota Member