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William Westney's article "Essential Skills: Risks and Rewards," was selected as the 2006 American Music Teacher Article of the Year.
Westney holds a B.A, degree from Queens College, New York, and a doctor's performance degree from the Yale School of Music, all with highest academic distinctions. He studied in Italy under a Fulbright grant. Westney's performing credentials include top piano prize in the Geneva International Competition, top prize in Radiotelevisione Italiana auditions, recitals at New York's Lincoln Center, in London, Taiwan and Korea, throughout Italy on a U.S. State Department tour and on NPR's "Performance Today." He has appeared as concerto soloist with such orchestras as the Houston Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and he has solo recordings for Musical Heritage Society and CRI. The CRI recording, the first ever of music by futurist Leo Ornstein, was cited by Newsweek magazine as one of the "Ten Best American-Music Recordings" of the year.
As an educator, Westney is in demand internationally as a workshop leader (the ...