Elvina Truman Pearce »

Elvina Truman Pearce teaches the Intermediate Master Class on Monday, March 26, 2007 starting at 9 am.

ELVINA TRUMAN PEARCE attended the University of Tulsa followed by study in New York City with the renowned Russian artist-teacher, Isabelle Vangerova.  She was also a longtime pedagogy student of Frances Clark I in Princeton, N.J. For fourteen years, she taught pedagogy and directed the Preparatory Piano division at Northwestern University.  She currently resides in Naperville, IL where for more than twenty years she has been associated with North Central College, both as a teacher and as a director of its Division of Preparatory and Community Music, a program which she founded in 1980.  Her concert career is highlighted by a solo appearance with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall, a coast-to-coast broadcast over The Chicago Theater of the Air, and by recitals in Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.