Lynda Metelsky is on the piano faculty of University of Toronto, and on the piano faculty of The Royal Conservatory where she was Piano Department Head for 16 years. She is also included in The Stanford Who's Who in North America.  She has been a very active teacher for four decades, inspiring students to achieve a high standard of playing and a genuine love for music.

 

She enthusiastically passes on strategies for secure learning and performing of music, and for deeper understanding of how music is structured. She works patiently and tirelessly, helping students achieve a well-balanced physical approach to playing, eliminating any tension from their playing and providing solutions for playing with ease and confidence.   She also guides students in expanding their listening horizon to find the vast number of tone colours and nuances that create beautiful music.

 

Ms. Metelsky has been an active Master Class Instructor and Adjudicator for many years. She has enjoyed working with and adjudicating students across Canada in most cities. Internationally she has given master classes in Germany, especially  at the Mannheim School, in Italy, and in the USA, particularly at the San Francisco Conservatory, Kansas University, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, and in several States. She has also lectured and worked with students at several World Piano Pedagogy Conferences. For five years Ms. Metelsky also taught at the summer performance program, International Institute for Young Musicians, at University of Santa Barbara and at Kansas University.  For several years she also coordinated the Piano Master Class Program for RCM’s Young Artists Performance Academy, now called the Taylor Academy.

 

Ms. Metelsky is a sought-after adjudicator of Piano Festivals and Competitions, adjudicating in over forty Canadian cities as well as for Contemporary Showcase, for the Concourse Musical de France, the SYMFA in Seattle and for the CCC Chinese Cultural Centre Piano Competition.

She especially enjoys the traditional person to person adjudicating, but is equally comfortable with online judging and adjudicating. She is also comfortable with online teaching when in-person teaching is not an option. She has many international online students, from Romania to Shanghai and Hong Kong, and she teaches several Canadian students online as well.

 

Ms. Metelsky also works with a large number of adult students who are refining   their playing and performance skills. She holds several performance classes and evening soirées for these students who enjoy listening to each other, who share positive support, and who enjoy social interaction with others who also love music. These mature students cover a wide range of ages and are truly  enjoyable to work with.

 

Ms. Metelsky has been a guest speaker/lecture-performer at World Piano Pedagogy Conferences across the USA, at the Music Teachers National Association Collaborative Conference, Grand Valley Michigan State Conference and the University of Cincinnati Piano Pedagogy Forum. She also served as a Panelist at several conferences, and was invited by the WPPC to offer numerous teaching demonstrations. Ms. Metelsky travelled throughout North America as a Workshop Clinician for the Frederick Harris Music Co. Ltd. for well over a decade.

 

Lynda Metelsky is a senior level piano and pedagogy examiner for Royal Conservatory of Music Examinations. She contributed to the curriculum development of the Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Piano Pedagogy Certificate Program and she developed and previously ran the Teaching Internship in the Glenn Gould School’s Artist Diploma in Performance and Pedagogy. In addition she was repertoire contributor and author for three former editions of Celebration Series Piano Repertoire and Studies Albums as well as their companion Student Workbooks.  Lynda Metelsky also authored articles for Keyboard Companion Magazine and co-authored a workbook on developing piano technique for performance.  Lynda Metelsky has adjudicated competitions in over forty Canadian cities as well as for Contemporary Showcase, for the Concourse Musical de France, the SYMFA in Seattle and for the CCC Chinese Cultural Centre Piano Competition.

 

Lynda Metelsky received her Mus. Bac.(Performance) from University of Toronto and her Masters in Performance degree from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. Her studies were primarily with Swiss pianist Pierre Souvairan, Luiz de Moura Castro and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Post-graduate studies continued in France, Italy, and at the Mozarteum in Austria.