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SCOTT McBRIDE SMITH is President and CEO of the International Institute for Young Musicians and a respected teacher of prize-winning piano students in Irvine, California.

An internationally recognized authority on piano teaching, Scott McBride Smith is co-author of the widely used college text The Well Tempered Keyboard Teacher. Dr. Smith is an Associate Editor of the magazine for early-level piano study Keyboard Companion. His articles and reviews have also appeared in Piano Guild Notes and the American Music Teacher. He is a member of the editorial board of the Lorenz Publishing Company and is a reviewer for Oxford University Press. Dr. Smith is under contract to the Frederick Harris Music Company as an author, editor and clinician.

Scott McBride Smith has given workshops for teachers' groups throughout the U.S., in Asia and South America. He has appeared several times on the program of the Music Teachers National Association, and has given workshops for the National Association for Gifted Children. Dr. Smith was the leader for the Independent Music Teacher sessions at the 1999 MTNA Convention in Los Angeles, and panel chair for sessions on Pedagogy Day. He appeared at the 1999 World Piano Pedagogy Conference meeting in St. Louis, at the 2000 World Piano Pedagogy Conference meeting in Las Vegas and in a week-long session in Taiwan sponsored by the International Piano Teaching Foundation. He was featured in an Interactive Teaching Demonstration at the 2001 WWPC, a role he also performed at the 2001 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.

Dr. Smith received his doctorate from the University of Southern California, where he was co-winner of the Outstanding Graduate in Piano award. He is on the national board of the Music Teachers National Association and a member of the European Piano Teachers Association.