Melody bober biography
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Minnesota composer Melody Bober featured in acclaimed piano book series
Minnesota composer Melody Bober has been composing, arranging and writing educational piano music for more than 25 years. This year, she was chosen to be part of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s sixth edition of its acclaimed Celebration Series piano books, which will be released April 27.
Living in Park Rapids, Minnesota, Bober has been creating musical experiences for children of all ages and skill groups for most of her career. While she is a successful composer and arranger outside of her educational endeavors, teaching remains close to her heart.
“I create pieces that offer a challenge, technical growth, expression, and are nice to listen to,” she said. “The first edition of the Celebration Series started in 1988, and the early 2000s is when I was first selected to be a part of it.”
The Celebration Series is published by the Royal Conservatory of Music, which was founded in 1886 in Toronto, Canada, as a not-for-profit organization that supports music students and their teachers throughout North America. The widely used series is a graded collection of repertoire and etudes for piano study from elementary through advanced levels that includes music from all style periods. While composing
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Teaching the World to Play!
As a composer, Melody enjoys creating motivational piano pieces that foster students' understanding and love of music.
Melody graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana with a bachelor's degree in music education. She later received a Master of Arts degree in piano performance from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. She credits much of her success to her influential teachers who include Joel Shapiro and Andrew Froelich (piano), Mary Hoffman (music education) and Tony Caramia (jazz).
Melody has held the position of church music director, forty plus years of private piano teaching, twenty years of public school music and two years at the university level. A dynamic clinician and innovative composer, Melody is in great demand at conventions and workshops for piano teachers across North America.
She resides in Minnesota with her husband, Jeff.
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