Mary Siciliano

About Mary

Mary Siciliano has a very successful private piano studio that includes pre-college students and piano teachers. She continues to give pedagogy workshops throughout the country and recently taught at the Interlochen Adult Education Seminar. Siciliano was on the piano faculty at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where she taught applied piano, piano ensemble, chamber music, and coordinated the piano pedagogy program. She also taught piano pedagogy classes at the University of Michigan, Madonna University, and Schoolcraft College. Her students have gone to prestigious music schools and have distinguished themselves in many local, state, national, and international piano competitions.

Siciliano and violinist Velda Kelly cofounded "Chamber Music with Piano". This summer workshop at Madonna University explores chamber music with piano and has included students from age 12 through adults. Students are offered intense coaching with various musicians from the Michigan Opera Orchestra. Thius culminates in a final recital that also includes verbal communication with the audience.

Siciliano is very active in piano teacher organizations. She has served on the boards of the Metropolitan Detroit Musicians League, Michigan Music Teachers Association, the East Central Division of the Music Teachers National Association, and the Tuesday Musicale of Detroit.

Siciliano performs throughout the United States, Canada, and France. She has been broadcast on CBC, WRCJ, and several others. She has collaborated on several cd albums that include first recordings of Richard Stohr on Toccata Classics as well as the chamber music of Jacques de la Presle, Pierre de Breville, Ignatz Waghalter, and Fernand de la Tombelle.

Siciliano received her Masters in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan where she was awarded the Joseph Brinkman Award for outstanding performance.

I encourage and direct students to explore organized tools to enhance efficient and involved practicing. This promotes pianistic, musical, and personal growth.