Mary Moran (pianist/teacher)
Mary Moran is an American pianist, teacher, and author. Ms. Moran teaches the Taubman Approach to Piano, and is known for her application of the Taubman Approach to children's piano pedagogy. Ms. Moran graduated from Crane School of Music at Potsdam, New York. Ms. Moran has been studying the Taubman Approach since 1977, primarily with Edna Golandsky. She was on the faculty of the Taubman Institute from 1981 through 2002. Ms. Moran has also been on the adjunct faculties of Hudson Valley Community College and Russell Sage College.
In 2004, Ms. Moran co-founded the Golandsky Institute with Edna Golandsky, John Bloomfield and Robert Durso. As a senior faculty member, Ms. Moran lectures at the Summer Symposium at Princeton University each summer. She also teaches at the Golandsky Institute’s Professional Training Program in Western Massachusetts, in Montreal, Quebec, and in Kingston, Ontario.
Ms. Moran has lectured and given master classes for music teacher conventions and events in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Montreal, Oregon, as well as in Grenoble, France, and Lecce, Italy.
Ms. Moran has written instructional books on the Taubman Approach. She teaches at her private studio in Niskayuna, New York and performs as a soloist, duo-pianist and a collaborative pianist.