Rachel Snyder Turney is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher dedicated to helping her students develop musicality at every level of study. She has maintained a thriving private studio for more than 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Rachel taught class piano for Penn State University and directed their piano preparatory program, a collaboration providing hands-on teacher training to pedagogy masters students. In addition, Rachel served as executive director of the Music Arts School, a community music school in Highland Park, IL, where she and her faculty served over 300 students through applied and group instruction, chamber music, and community outreach programs.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Rachel completed a Master of Music degree in piano performance and pedagogy at Penn State University, a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and Suzuki teacher training at the Music Institute of Chicago. She has written for Keyboard Companion<\/em> and American Music Teacher<\/em> magazines, has presented at national pedagogy conferences, and is a member of Music Teachers National Association and Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society. She is an active adjudicator and collaborative pianist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rachel enjoys spending time with her husband, Brent, and their three children. They love making music as a family and learning together.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rachel Snyder Turney is Associate Lecturer of Class Piano in the School of Performing Arts at University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"phone":"715-346-3602","email":"rachel.snyder-turney@uwsp.edu","office":"320 Noel Fine Arts Center","title":"","building":"","room":"","website":"","bio":"","image":"","pronouns":"","first_name":"Rachel Snyder","last_name":"Turney","position-type":["Faculty"],"education":[{"degree":"MM - Piano Performance and Pedagogy","school":"Penn State University","year":""},{"degree":"BM - Piano Performance","school":"University of Nebraska - Lincoln","year":""}],"courses":[],"titles":[{"title":"Associate Lecturer - Class Piano"}]},"department":[9,16,10],"class_list":["post-395","uwsp_directory","type-uwsp_directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-cofac","department-music","department-sopa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uwsp_directory"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}