Louise Goss receives MTNA Achievement Award.(National Association News)(Music Teachers National Association )

Louise Goss was honored with the 2005 MTNA Achievement Award at the Awards Brunch during the National Conference in Seattle.

Goss is an internationally recognized teacher lecturer, author and editor She is chair of the Board of Trustees of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy and co-founder of The New School for Music Study Goss also is co-author ant editor of the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students.

Goss has conducted work-snobs, seminars and study courses at colleges and universities nationwide, and has appeared as lecturer, clinician and consultant in the U.S. and abroad. She has pioneered the production of video teaching rapes, which are used extensively in college and university piano pedagogy departments across the country.

From 1983-2000 Goss served as adjunct associate professor of piano pedagogy at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

Born in Kalamazoo, Michiqan, Goss earned a B.A. degree from Kalamazoo College, where she was a piano student of Frances Clark and a member of Clark's first four-year degree program in piano pedagogy She carried a triple major--music, ...