SOUNDS OF SUCCESS EWC students who take Dr. Lucy Chen’s courses are used to taking directions, but next year they will be the ones giving them under a new pilot program she developed. The Edward Waters College Keys on Parade Extension after school music program will provide impactful tuition-free group piano classes to economically disadvantaged children in Jacksonville, while simultaneously equipping EWC students with profitable pedagogical skills. The classes will be offered to students attending John E. Fold Elementary School and Spanish Montessori. Both schools are located in the Urban Core where there is the highest concentration of poverty in Jacksonville; creating an unmet need for educational enrichment programs. Children enrolled will be stimulated with much needed exposure to music while developing tight-knit bonds with their peers, college mentors and parents. The EWC Keys on Parade Extension program gives these young musicians an opportunity to learn as a community. Dr. Lucy Chen is an award-winning solosit and
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collaborative pianist who has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Boston Athenaeum, the Liszt Bicentennial Celebration at the Boston Tsai Performance Center, and the Spring of Shanghai Concert Series at the He Lu Ding Concert Hall in Shanghai, China. Dr. Chen is the Assistant Professor of Piano at Edward Waters College, and has served as Class Piano Instructor at Boston University and the University of Florida. In both 2010 and 2013, Dr. Chen was featured by the Boston Epoch Times as an outstanding music educator. Dr. Chen is the founder of the Keys on Parade Program.
Dr. Lucy Chen performing during the 150th Founders’ Day Convocation ceremony.