Blickenstaff has served as chair of the piano departments at the University of North Carolina/ Chapel Hill and Goshen College (IN) and from 2000-2013 he was President of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy. He was honored in 2009 with MTNA’s highest honor, the MTNA Achievement Award. Also in 2007, he was named Fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Blickenstaff honoring his contribution to piano teaching in America. In 2007 the online journal Piano Pedagogy Forum published tributes to Mr. The Marvin Blickenstaff Endowment Fund was established in his honor by the Music Teachers National Association Foundation. He is well-known across the country and in Canada for his frequent presentations at state and national conferences. Blickenstaff holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, where he received both academic and performance honors. Marvin Blickenstaff joined The New School in 1999, and serves as co-director of the PEPS Program. Master of Music in Piano Performance, Indiana Universityīachelor of Music in Piano Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music Board Member and Past President of The Frances Clark Center

His dissertation is an analysis of folk elements found in three piano compositions by Peruvian composers. Aguilar is currently an A.B.D student of Elizabeth Moak in Piano Performance at The University of Southern Mississippi with minors in collaborative piano and music theory. Aguilar was also invited to perform a solo recital in Czech Republic, and gave a masterclass to two students of the Prague Conservatory. Aguilar performed a recital on Peruvian composers with oboist William Wielgus at the International Students House in Washington, D.C, and recently recorded music of Peruvian Composers with Wielgus for the Sono Luminus. He was also invited by Art Quitilinga to perform a recital in the Karl Richter Haus in Quedlinburg, Germany. Aguilar performed Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto in E flat Major with the Westminster Community Orchestra. Aguilar holds a Master’s Degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Ingrid Clarfield. Aguilar was invited to attend the Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium at Princeton University. Gonzalo Aguilar joined the New School in 2022 began taking piano lessons at 17 years old with Professor Larissa Belotserkovskaia, and graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Lima, Peru, with the highest accolades. Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy and Performance, Westminster Choir College Gonzalo of Musical Arts in Piano Performance (ABD), University of Southern Mississippi

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