DR. MICHELLE CONDA is the Coordinator of Secondary Piano and Associate Professor of Piano at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied piano with Dr. Jane Magrath and pedagogy with Dr. Jane Magrath and Dr. E. L. Lancaster. With adult piano study as her main area of research, she has written articles for The Soundpost, Keyboard Companion, The Piano Forum, and American Music Teacher. She also heads the Adult Learning Committee of the National Keyboard Teachers Conference. She teaches "for fun" almost exclusively adult students, first through Evening College at the University of Toledo, and now through the Communiversity program at the University of Cincinnati.

Current projects include two books for group teaching, which are to be published in 2005-2006. She is one of the founding members of GP3-National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum, which held its third event in August 2004.

Dr. Conda is a member of the Cincinnati Community Orchestra, for which she has performed as soloist for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Schumann's Piano Concerto, and most recently Shostakovich Concerto #2.

Dr. Conda lives with her husband Bob, a pianist for the University of Cincinnati's ballet department, and her 7 year old son Nicholas, who is interested more in cars than music.