James Lyke honored with Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award.James Lyke was presented the MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award for his text Creative Piano Teaching, now in its third edition, which is used in many college piano pedagogy courses. The award, in the amount of $3,000, was established through the MTNA FOUNDATION's Frances Clark-Louise Goss n. 1. Gorse. Endowment Fund. It is given to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the keyboard pedagogy field through the creation and development of new products and publications. Lyke also has authored three texts for group instruction in piano at the college level. He has published numerous supplementary books for college group instruction, as well as duet and duo piano arrangements for young students. In 1979, Lyke co-founded, with the late Richard Chronister, the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, and served as associate director until 1995. From 1959 to 1993, Lyke served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific , where he chaired the group piano and piano pedagogy division. He expanded the group piano program to include beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of instruction. He also added group courses in jazz keyboard. In 1980, Lyke established a master of music degree program in piano pedagogy. A piano laboratory was opened for students of all ages enrolled in this program, which offered piano pedagogy majors practical teaching experience. At Illinois, Lyke supervised teaching assistants in group piano classes and applied lessons. He headed Illinois Summer Youth Music Piano Camps for middle and high school students and organized short summer workshop courses for piano teachers. In 1993, Lyke accepted a similar position at Georgia State University History Georgia State University was founded in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's "School of Commerce." The school focused on what was called "the new science of business. in Atlanta as director of graduate studies in music. He retired in 1999 and moved to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , continuing his work with publishing and teacher workshops. In addition to his collegiate work, he has conducted several workshops in Europe as well as Australia, South Korea and Cyprus. Lyke served two terms as president of Illinois State Music Teachers Association, from 1978 to 1982, and two terms as MTNA national group piano chair, from 1971 to 1975. Lyke earned degrees from The State University of New York-College at Fredonia (SUNY-Fredonia), Columbia University and the University of Northern Colorado  It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with and ()University of Northern Colorado (Northern Colorado) . He received honored alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. awards from SUNY-Fredonia and the University of Northern Colorado in 1979 and 2002, respectively. In 1990, he received the Excellence in Off Campus Teaching award from the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
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