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Helen Marlais’
active performance schedule includes collaborative concerts in North
America, Western Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Marlais is one of
the most prolific authors in the field of educational piano books.
Her critically acclaimed and award-winning piano series, Succeeding
with the Masters®, The Festival Collection®, In
Recital®, Sight Reading and Rhythm®, Write,
Play, and Hear Your Theory®, and The FJH Contemporary
Keyboard Editions®, among others, are exclusively published
by The FJH Music Company. As well as being the Director of Keyboard
Publications for The FJH Music Company, she is also an Associate
Professor of Music at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, where she teaches piano majors, directs the piano pedagogy
program, and coordinates all of the group piano programs, which
includes the young beginner piano program.
She performs and
gives workshops throughout the country and at all of the national
music teachers’ conventions. Her articles can be read in Keyboard
Companion, The American Music Teacher, and Clavier magazines.
Her more than 60 educational piano CD’s are recorded on
Stargrass® Records.
Dr. Marlais has
performed with members of the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Grand
Rapids, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Beijing National Symphony
Orchestras to name a few, and has recorded on Gasparo and Centaur
record labels with her husband, concert clarinetist Arthur Campbell.
They have had numerous collaborative performances broadcast
regionally, nationally, and internationally, on radio, television,
and the Internet. Her travels abroad have included performing and
teaching at the leading conservatories and festivals in Italy,
France, Hungary, Turkey, Lithuania, Estonia, and China. She has
premiered many new contemporary works by composers from the Unites
States, Canada, and Europe and is also the pianist for the chamber
music group Trio Nuovo. This group specializes in playing both
new and well-known music for clarinet, bass clarinet, and piano.
She received her
DM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and
her MM in piano performance from Carnegie Mellon University.
Visit www.helenmarlais.com
for more information.
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