BRENDA DILLON serves as education consultant for Roland's Contemporary Keyboard Division and as associate editor of Roland's Keyboard Educator. Her background includes experiences in academia and the music industry. Her formal education includes bachelors and master's degrees and doctoral work in music from the University of North Texas.

After teaching music at two Dallas community colleges, she served as Dean of Fine Arts at Brookhaven College. Throughout her teaching career, she presented workshops at state and national conferences, authored numerous articles, co-authored two books, and consulted on projects for Wurlitzer, Musitronic, and Yamaha. Ms. Dillon served as chairman of several organizations, including the National Group Piano Symposium, the Texas Group Piano Association, and a keyboard committee for MENC. She also served as co-chair of MENC's Music in Our School's Week.

Ms. Dillon's formal association with industry began when she became Executive Director of the National Piano Foundation. Her experiences included coordinating NPF's Research Project with McGill University in Montreal, and writing kits for educators, technicians and retailers (Piano Marketing Essentials, Teaching Bigger Fingers to Play, a SPELLS Action Kit - Study of Piano Enhances Learning and Life's Success.) The latter was developed for a market development program sponsored by the piano manufacturers. Ms. Dillon gave SPELLS presentations to retailers, technicians, and educators in fifty cities throughout the U.S.

As Academic Relations Manager for Coda Music Technology, Ms. Dillon's responsibilities included serving as editor of Vivace Views, writing a Vivace Presentation Kit for retailers and educators, coordinating Vivace's clinic program and a Vivace Symposium, participating in the Vivace Specialist Training Seminars, and writing Vivace modules for collegiate instrumental methods classes. She also served as Texas Regional Manager with seven Coda retailers.

Ms. Dillon currently serves as associate editor of Keyboard Companion magazine.