Dr. Pamela Pike is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock , where she has coordinated the group-piano program for the past five years. In addition to teaching piano classes, Dr. Pike teaches applied piano, music theory, undergraduate and graduate courses in piano pedagogy, serves as the Director of the UALR Performing Arts Series, Artspree, and chairs the College of Arts , Humanities, and Social Sciences “Recruitment, Enrollment, and Retention Team.”

During her first year at UALR, Pike was awarded a three-year grant from the Office of the Provost that has enabled her to establish a successful community-outreach program at the university called the “3 rd -Age Piano Class: MUAP 1100,” which includes a group of students who comprise the “3 rd -Age MIDI Ensemble.” In addition to availing of the UALR Roland digital piano lab and the UALR MIDI classroom for piano instruction, Pike has acquired a six-keyboard portable MIDI lab for the 3 rd -Age MIDI ENsemble to perform at off-campus venues throughout central Arkansas .

Pike has been published in Keyboard Companion, American Music Teacher, Proceedings from MTNA Pedagogy Saturday III, and had her paper entitled “Cognition, Individual Learning Styles and Engaging Every Student in the Group-Piano Class” published in the Proceedings of the 27 th World Conference of the International Society of Music Education (2006). Pike has been invited and presented papers at several prestigious international conferences including the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the International Society for Music Education World Conference in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia .

Nationally, Dr. Pike has served as panelist or presenter at five recent National MTNA Conferences, she has given presentations and workshops on technology, cognition and group music teaching for the National Group Piano – Piano Pedagogy Forum, the College Music Society, the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association, the Quad State (Northeastern United States) Music Teachers Association and for the Music Teachers Association of Central Arkansas. Pike serves on the “Committee for Adult Learning” and on the “Future of Piano Pedagogy Committee” for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, is active as an adjudicator and clinician in Arkansas and is past-president of the International Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation.

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