Diane Dawson Delk
Faculty Profile: Diane Dawson Delk
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Adjunct Instructor of Piano | Education: | | B.M., Piano Performance, Bayor University | | Graduate Study, Piano Performance, George Peabody College for Teachers |
E-Mail: diane.delk@lonestar.edu |
Biography: Diane Dawson Delk, NCTM, teaches piano, class piano and piano pedagogy workshops at Lone Star College–Montgomery. She maintains a large private studio in Conroe and also teaches in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. In Leon she founded the Fine Arts School at the Imagina Biblioteca Infantil, which provides extremely economically deprived children with private and group lessons in piano, strings and ballet. The piano students at The Imagina School have become a part of Music Link Foundation and have successfully performed two years for the National Guild Examinations. The success of the program has been documented in an article in the American Music Teacher professional journal of MTNA by Dr. Leslie Spotz of Tarleton State University, titled “The Mexico Miracle”. In addition to these activities, Mrs. Delk was on the faculty of the Sam Houston State University Summer Piano Camp in July, 2007.
Mrs. Delk is an officer of Texas Music Teachers Association, and she is very involved in Conroe and Cypress Creek Music Teachers Associations. She holds Music Teachers National Association Certification and is a Faculty Member of the American College of Musicians, where she also holds certification. She was awarded the Piano Guild Hall of Fame in 1996.
She is faculty co-sponsor for the Lone Star College–Montgomery Collegiate Chapter of the Music Teachers National Association (MC-MTNA). In MTNA she served for six years from 1999 to 2005 as the National Junior Performance Competitions Coordinator, and will be a session presenter at the 2008 MTNA Conference in March in Denver, Colorado serving on a panel of four teachers from across the nation discussing ensemble as a part of music education. She serves annually as a National Piano Guild judge and also judges for Music Teachers Association and National Federation of Music Clubs festivals and competitions. She has been a presenter for the Texas Music Teachers Association Conventions and is an active clinician.
She received the Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, cum laude, from Baylor University and did a year’s graduate study in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the George Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee.She appeared as soloist with the Corpus Christi, Centex, Baylor and Nashville Symphonies and was twice awarded Honorable Mention in the prestigious Shreveport Symphony International Young Artist Competition. She performs frequently in chamber ensembles, especially those involving wind instrument combinations, and in venues including the Woodlands Chautauqua Concert Series. In addition to her professional activities, she is an active member of the First Baptist Church of Conroe, Texas where she plays the piano for her Sunday School class. She is a member of the Pan American Round Table.