Education
- MMus, University of Hartford
- BMusPerf, University of Toronto
Biography
Lynda Metelsky has been on the piano faculty of University of Toronto since 1983 and on faculty at the Royal Conservatory since 1981, where she served also as Piano Department Head for 16 years. As well, she is on the summer faculty of the International Institute for Young Musicians, USA.
Lynda Metelsky has conducted master classes outside Canada in Germany at the Mannheim School and in the USA at schools including the San Francisco Conservatory, Kansas University and the Hartt School. She has adjudicated competitions in over 25 Canadian cities, adjudicated for the Concourse Musical de France and the SYMFA in Seattle.
Since 1988 Ms. Metelsky has been a frequent lecturer on piano pedagogy across Canada and the USA and she is a regular presenter at pedagogy conferences, particularly WPPC and MTNA. She is a piano pedagogy instructor at the Royal Conservatory and examines ARCT and Piano Pedagogy for RCM Examinations. Lynda Metelsky also developed the Teaching Internship Program in the Artist Diploma in Performance and Pedagogy at the Glenn Gould School.
Lynda Metelsky received her Bachelor of Music in Performance from University of Toronto and her Masters in Performance from University of Hartford where she studied with Pierre Souvairan, Luiz de Moura Castro, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.