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DEON NIELSEN PRICE eon Nielsen Price is a prolific composer; published author; award-winning pianist, performing and recording artist; choral and instrumental conductor; vocal coach; college adjunct professor; publisher; film composer; church musician; and competition adjudicator. She and her son Berkeley, D.M.A. (Mu Upsilon, Los Angeles Alumni) perform as the clarinet and piano Price Duo, for which she has written a number of works. Dr. Price serves on the boards as president and past-president of the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA) and the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). She has also been an officer in Mu Phi Epsilon International Music Fraternity (MFE) and the International Congress on Women in Music (ICWM) and is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Since 2017, she has been composer-in-residence and curator of the Sunday Concert Series for the Interfaith Center at the Presidio. Since joining Mu Phi Epsilon in 1961, Deon has won multiple awards from the Fraternity and the Foundation including the Marian Davidson Accompanying Award, Liana K. Sandin Grant-in-Aid, Composition Winner in Large Works category, MFE Helen Haupt Alumni Chapter Project Grant to Los Angeles Alumni Chapter, MFE Travel grant, Los Angeles Alumni Chapter Grant, James and Lola Faust Chamber Music Award, and the Orah Ashley Lamke Distinguished Alumni Award. She is author of “Accompanying Skills for Pianists, 2nd Edition,” and the manual, “SightPlay with Skillful Eyes” (Culver Crest Publications). She has written articles on piano accompanying and sight-playing for Clavier Magazine and Keyboard Companion and edited the text College Class Piano-Comprehensive Approach (Demibach Editions; Reading Keyboard Music, Ltd.). Information about her musical compositions and books is online at www.culvercrest.com. Her works are archived at the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library in Special Collections. Many are recorded on the Cambria and Albany labels distributed by NAXOS. Dr. Price earned her Bachelor of Arts at Brigham Young University, 1954; Master of Music at University of Michigan, 1961; and Doctor of Musical Arts with Honors in Accompanying at University of Southern California, 1977. She is wife to the late psychologist Kendall O. Price, Ph.D., and mother of 5 children, 18 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
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