Join us for a zoom presentation with the local favorite, Dr. Melody Payne! She will be sharing on how to use Boom Cards with your students.
Dr. Melody Hanberry Payne is a classically trained pianist and enjoys teaching piano lessons in her home studio to children and adults of all ages and abilities. She writes blog posts on a variety of relevant topics for piano teachers, and she and her team create and sell piano teaching resources and sheet music in her online music resources store for piano teachers and students around the world.
Dr. Payne is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music who has served as a full-time music professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Sterling College, and Mississippi College, and an adjunct Professor at Emory and Henry College. She received the Pittman Young Faculty Award from Mississippi College for excellence in teaching and for leading and directing the Taylor School, the MC Department of Music’s musical outreach program for children and adults in the community. Additionally, Dr. Payne designed and administered the Piano Pedagogy Master’s Degree Program at Mississippi College.
Dr. Payne holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and a Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy and Doctor of Philosophy in Music with emphases in music education and piano pedagogy from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where she studied piano with Constance Carroll and piano pedagogy with Dr. Steve Betts. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, the Virginia Music Teachers Association, and served as President of the Blue Ridge Music Teachers Association.
She has presented research on practicing, early- and intermediate-level pedagogical piano compositions, and piano performance accuracy at the National Conference of the Music Teachers National Association, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and the Mississippi Music Teachers Association State Conference. She has presented lecture recitals and workshops on beginning group keyboard experiences, intermediate piano literature, practicing, and technology in the piano studio at local and state levels, online piano teaching at the Virtual MTNA National Conference, and a variety of topics as a presenter for the MTNA/National Piano Foundation webinar series.
Melody and her husband Greg live in Marion, Virginia, a small town nestled in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.