Janice Meyer

Janice Meyer Thompson, pianist, has enjoyed a diverse career as
soloist, collaborative artist, lecture-recitalist, and master teacher
across three continents. Her playing has been acclaimed for its
”beautiful sound, easy versatility of style, and remarkable
sensitivity to phrasing and nuance” (Chicago Sun Times) and for
its “stylistic versatility as well as technical mastery”
(Fanfare). Thompson has performed throughout the United States, Europe
and Asia, with recitals and master classes presented in the premier
conservatories of China (Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing Central
Conservatories) and South Korea (Seoul National, Hanyang, Yonsei,
Kyung-Book and Ulsan Universities). She has toured extensively as
pianist for The Kent Camerata, a five-member international
vocal/instrumental chamber music ensemble, throughout Italy, Germany,
Ireland, Canada and the U.S. Highlights have included recitals at the
American Consulate in Florence, the Maggio Musicale and Val Tidone
Festivals, and the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Ms
Thompson also maintains a lively schedule of coast-to-coast
performances, workshops and master classes with Vermont pianist Elaine
Greenfield in The Transcontinental Piano Duo. Reviews note the
Duo’s “brilliance and excitement…impeccable
ensemble…delicate phrasing….great musicianship and
versatility.”


Ms. Thompson is a frequent presentor at national and
international music conferences, including the National Conference on
Keyboard Pedagogy and the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, and is a
member of the Adamant Music School (Adamant, Vermont) summer artist
faculty. Jan Meyer Thompson is recorded on compact disc in
performances with The Kent Camerata (Kent Camerata Favorites), with
singers Mary Sue Hyatt and Jane Dressler (Song Upon Song, TimeGrabber
Digital) with bassoonist David DeBolt (A Musical Painting Comes to
Life, Crystal CD 841), and with Transcontinental Piano Duo partner
Elaine Greenfield, (Piano 4-Hands, Concert Favorites). The Duo’s
most recent recording--French Piano Four-Hands with the Elegant Erard
(Centaur 3071)--features works of Debussy, Ravel, Faure, and Bizet
performed on an original Erard piano at the Frederick Historic Piano
Collection, Ashburnham, Massachusetts.


Dr. Thompson is nationally recognized for her leadership in the
field of piano pedagogy and for her academic accomplishments as
Professor of Piano at the Arizona State University School of Music in
Tempe. She is founding director of the ASU Piano Prep and Conservatory
Programs and coordinator of graduate piano pedagogy degrees at ASU.
Her published articles have appeared in American Music Teacher,
Clavier, Keyboard Companion, and in the Proceedings of the National
Conference on Piano Pedagogy. Ms. Thompson holds the Doctor of Music
degree in Performance-Chamber Music from Northwestern University,
where her principal teachers were Gui Mombaerts and Donald Isaak.