Location: Check with district president
Presenting District: Central Oregon
Presenter: Dianne Davies, NCTM

Program Description: This workshop encourages teachers to present repertoire to students as a guide to their own creativity. Dianne’s Rainforest Animals was inspired by two Debussy preludes.

Presenter Bio: Dianne Davies is a solo and collaborative pianist, composer, published arranger and instructor. Her music envelopes the emotions of love, loss, depression and joy to sonic representations of endangered species in the Amazon Rainforest. Her shows range from the dramatic and deeply personal that include drama, live visual art and dance, to the far reaches of slapstick comedy that are accessible to a wide range of audiences. Alongside a full piano teaching studio, she chairs the OMTA State Composition Festival and the MTNA State Composition Competition for the next generation of composers. In 2021, her Romantic Christmas Suite, an amalgam of Chopin nocturnes and traditional Christmas carols, was published by Fred Bock Publishing Company under the umbrella of Hal Leonard. In 2023, her latest arrangement, Impressionist Christmas Suite, received Editor’s Choice from J.W. Pepper and Dianne earned National Certification through MTNA. She holds memberships in: OMTA, MTNA, NACUSA, and CFAMC. Dianne is a self published composer with ASCAP under her own company name, 7Fold Musiq. You can learn more about her and her music at musiqpower.com.