Tayloe Harding became Dean of the School of Music at University of South Carolina on July 1, 2005. He was most recently the Head of the Department of Music, Professor of Music, and Chief Advancement Officer for the Arts at Valdosta State University (VSU) as well as serving as Executive Director of the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra. He has previously served in faculty and administrative capacities at North Dakota State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Georgia State University. Dr. Harding's works have received performances throughout the United States, Canada and on six continents. He has received grants for new works and premiers from Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, Lila Wallace-Readers' Digest Foundation, Philip Morris, Inc., and a variety of state and local agencies in Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Commissions for his new works have been received from Thamyris, the Atlanta Winds, the African-American Philharmonic Orchestra, the Atlanta Community Orchestra, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, the Chicago Saxophone Quartet, the Gainesville (FL) Civic Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, and from numerous individuals and Universities. His has been a fellow of the Ragdale and UCROSS Foundations, as well as of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center for the Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. A member of ASCAP, his works are published by Mareba Music, and Collected Editions, Ltd. He is currently serving as President of the College Music Society, the nation's only comprehensive professional and scholarly membership organization in music in higher education has been active in many national and international organizations, but most recently the Society of Composers, Inc. and the National Associations of Schools of Music.
Tayloe Harding, Dean
School of Music
University of South Carolina
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Columbia, SC 29208
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The PIANO PEDAGOGY FORUM is an example of so many things that are right in our profession: a unique publication that illuminates vital accomplishment and discovery in this important field, a purposeful demarcation of the critical nature of piano pedagogy study and practice at the University of South Carolina, and the first such dedicated on-line journal of its kind in piano pedagogy and indeed in many of our art's most enduring sub-disciplines. I am grateful to Professor Scott Price and his colleagues here at USC and through the world who have helped bring this distinctive serial to our industries for the past ten years.
It is also a privilege for me to help the FORUM and its editors and contributors look forward to the next ten years, first by recognizing the efforts of MARVIN BLICKENSTAFF, one of the great leaders in the field and a mentor to many of the FORUM's most important board members. His most recent work appears elsewhere in this Tenth Anniversary Issue.
We have much to be proud of with the PIANO PEDAGOGY FORUM as it prepares to represent what is best in the teaching of piano for another ten meaningful years. Thank you for being a part of it by visiting it, contributing to it, and sustaining it.
With all best wishes,
Tayloe Harding, Dean
USC School of Music
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