Brenda Dillon

Brenda Dillon, a longtime Project Director for the National Piano Foundation, serves as an advisory board member to the Frances Clark Center and consultant for Roland US. In addition to being a former associate editor of Keyboard Companion (now Clavier Companion), she served as editor of PianoNotes, the NPF newsletter. A former college professor in Dallas, TX, Brenda taught Recreational Music Making classes at a senior center in a Dallas suburb. In addition to writing articles and developing RMM materials, she does extensive teacher training throughout the U.S. Her most recent presentations include an RMM session at the 2008 International Society of Music Education (ISME) conference in Bologna, Italy, RMM presentations at the 2009 Pedagogy Saturday (MTNA National Conference), the 2009 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and the 2010 MTNA Conference. Brenda and her husband (Don Dillon, former Executive Director of Piano Manufacturers Association International) live in Durham, North Carolina.