REBECCA GROOMS JOHNSON holds a Ph.D. in Music Education specializing in Piano Pedagogy from The Ohio State University. She has taught both as a private piano teacher and as a faculty member in various colleges and universities. Johnson was a member of the Community Music School faculty at Capital University for nine years, and during that time founded and directed a summer workshop titled Power Ideas for the New Year: A Workshop for Piano Teachers. She then served a three year full-time lectureship at The Ohio State University where she directed all the class piano offerings and the graduate piano pedagogy degree. She currently serves at Capital University as Director of the Conservatory's Keyboard Pedagogy Program, and is the Director of the Conservatory's Community Music School.

Dr. Johnson has served the Ohio Music Teachers Association in numerous capacities, including State President, and was named "Certified Teacher of the Year" by the Central Eastern district of the Ohio Music Teachers Association. She was the National Chair of the Music Teachers National Association's Pedagogy Committee for three years, and recently completed two years as chair of the selection committee for MTNA's National Teacher of the Year Award. She is active as an adjudicator and clinician, and has presented workshops on teaching the adult student and surviving teacher burnout throughout the United States. Dr. Johnson publishes extensively in various national magazines and journals, including a tri-annual feature in American Music Teacher titled "What's New in Pedagogy Research." She currently serves as Associate Editor for the "Perspectives in Pedagogy" page in Keyboard Companion.