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Dr. Ray Landers is a well known author, administrator, educator, clinician,
recording artist and composer. He holds a BM from Sherwood Conservatory of
Music, an MM from Northwestern University, and a Doctorate in Music from
Indiana University. He is the founder/artistic director of the International
Music Festival, now in its 20th year, held annually at Baldwin-Wallace
College near Cleveland Ohio. He has taught and performed at music festivals
and workshops in over 40 American states and in Australia, Canada, China,
Europe, Israel, Japan, Russia, and New Zealand. As author and recording
artist he has numerous materials published by Warner Brothers and Daniel
Press. He is a sanctioned Suzuki Teacher Trainer and a book/film reviewer
for the international magazine, "The American Suzuki Journal" and has
written articles for other national magazines. Dr. Landers has formally
taught at Indiana University, Chicago State University, Westminster Choir
College, and Mannes College. He now teaches at the Buxmont Academy in
Pennsylvania, special high school for underprivileged youth, and maintains
piano studios in Yardley PA, where he lives, Princeton NJ and Montclair NJ
near New York City. He has taught many outstanding students who have won
local, state, and international prizes and have appeared on numerous local
and national TV and radio programs. He is listed in the International Who's
Who in Education, Who's Who in Entertainment, and the upcoming Who's Who in
America. He is eclectic in his approach, having studied with Shinichi
Suzuki, Frances Clark, George Bolet, Ivan Davis, Walter Robert, Guy
Duckworth, and taken seminars with Howard Gardner, Edwin Gordon and others.
He enjoys the challenge of teaching all levels (including special students)
and ages of students and considers music "a necessary luxury for all men."
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