Lisa R. Fairchild, MM, NCTM

Lisa R. Fairchild (b.1980) has concertized in the United States and in Europe, including Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Fazioli and Bechstein Centres in Paris. Ms Fairchild has performed concerti of Chopin, Kabalevsky, and Ravel in Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. She has also appeared live on television and public radio. Sharon Dobbins from the Tri-City Observer wrote, "Pianist Lisa Fairchild is amazing...Her command of her instrument is outstanding and remarkable."

Ms Fairchild has been a prize winner in many national and international competitions over the course of her lifetime, including the Silver Lake International Piano Competition, the Sonatina and Sonata International Youth Piano Competition, and the National Federation of Music Clubs Piano Competition in Chicago. Her original piano compositions have won such awards as the IBLA Grand Prize in Italy and the Grand Award at the Berkshire New Music Festival in New England. She has been a selected performer in the MTNA Electronic Media Composition Festival and was featured on the cover of Piano Guild Notes, a bi-monthly magazine for members of the National Guild of Piano Teachers.

Ms Fairchild was asked to join the 2010 summer faculty of the Musique-Colombe Conservatory in France. Ms Fairchild has been an adjunct faculty member of Mississippi State University, teaching private piano and class piano. She has earned her Masters Degree in piano performance, with an emphasis in harpsichord and piano pedagogy, from the University of Memphis, where she was awarded the Performer's Certificate. She taught class piano at the University of Memphis for four years and has served as the teaching assistant to Samuel Viviano, her piano professor. From him, she can trace her educational lineage from Adele Marcus, to Joesph Lhevinne, all the way back to Carl Czerny.

She spent two summers studying at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Aquilles Delle-Vigne; and her supplementary studies have included lessons and masterclasses with Genaro Santoro, Dr. Jan and Nina Drath, Yohevid Kaplinsky, Peter Takacs, Tomas Ungar, Emanuel Ax, and Daniel Pollack.

Most recently, Ms Fairchild was asked to be a jury panel member of the Mississippi State University Concerto Competition, and she has judged for the Mississippi Music Teachers Association, the Alabama Music Teachers Association, the Greater Memphis Music Teachers Association, the Germantown Piano Festival, the Lane Music Festival in Memphis, as well as the Sonatina and Sonata International Youth Piano Competition in Corpus Christi, TX. She is a regional primary judge for the World Piano Competition and was asked to be a judge in the World Pedagogy Conference Piano Competition. In addition, she was asked to be featured in the book, Treasures of Tennessee, currently in progress. Her article "Mistakes--an Accidental Essay," was published in American Music Teacher magazine in 2011.

Ms Fairchild is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music from the Music Teachers National Association and serves on the board of the Greater Memphis Music Teachers Association. She maintains a private piano, organ, and harpsichord studio in Cordova, TN, where she works with children and adults of all abilities, including professional pianists and musicians; and she is the organist, cantrix, and choir director for St. Philip Episcopal Church in Memphis, TN. She has also been a member of the Memphis Symphony Chorus.

Ms Fairchild is the daughter of Tommy Fairchild (www.tommyfairchild.com), a Grammy and Dove award winning pianist/composer/producer; and Judith Fairchild-Wade, a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music. Her twelve-year old daughter, Marina Law, is an accomplished pianist, having performed in various venues across the United States, including Carnegie Hall. Her brother is Ron Fairchild (www.fairchildmusicgroup.com), a CMA winning pianist/arranger. The sane one in the family is her beautiful sister, Kimberly Brown, who keeps us crazy musicians together. Ms Fairchild makes her home with Ion Balu (www.ionbalu.com), a professional horn player and maker of the world's best mutes for brass instruments.