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​​​​Founded in 1953, Charlotte Piano Teachers Forum serves the greater Charlotte community of musicians and music lovers by providing a platform to encourage an exchange of current pedagogical trends and new piano literature, student scholarships, and performance opportunities for members and students.
****Attention:  Time for Membership Renewal    
​Due by September 1, 2020
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***Our very own long time member of Charlotte Piano Teachers Forum was recently featured in the Charlotte Observer. Click here to read the Local Arts article. You will love it!
Meeting Location:
Miller Piano Company, 5236 E Independence Blvd, Charlotte, NC  28212
Meeting Times:
​ 9:30 AM - Board Meeting
 9:45 AM - Social Hour
10:15 AM - Forum Program

Meeting Dates:    The Forum meets each month, September through May

October 2, 2020
November 6, 2020
December 3, 2020
January 8, 2021
February 5, 2021
March 5, 2021
April 8, 2021
May 6, 2021
**The September through December Forum meetings will be online. If you would like to attend, please send your email to Forum President Brittany Smith at cptfpresident@gmail.com and she will send you a personal invitation to the meeting.
Program Update
October 2nd – Laura Stokes:  
“How to Engage Students with
​Hands-on Teaching Tools”

Do you have students struggling to stay focused for an entire lesson duration?  Are you still able to cover concepts like sight-reading, theory, rhythm concepts or ear-training?  Laura has decades of experience teaching both individual, partner and group lessons using manipulative teaching tools to introduce and reinforce foundational music skills.  See and ask questions on how to better engage your students - whether online or in-person - using hands-on materials to supplement method/repertoire materials and printed materials!
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Laura Chu Stokes, a nationally certified teacher of music, has been a pianist and music educator for more than forty years.  A graduate of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in piano performance, Laura has taught hundreds of students in her private studio and as the director-instructor at Appalachian State University’s Community Music School (CMS). Currently, she is a contributing author to the Alfred Music blog https://www.alfred.com/blog/ and ...