Paulette Albertson resides in Sahuarita, Arizona, a small town twenty minutes south of Tucson. She has been a teacher of piano and music theory for thirty-one years.
Ms. Albertson retains a small studio of ten to twenty (10-20) students. The small studio gives her a chance to individualize each student's curriculum and to chart their progress.
Her education consists of early childhood piano instruction in Midland, Texas under the training of the late Mrs. Lillian Knaur. Her higher music education training was at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas; Richland College in Dallas, Texas; and The University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. Piano studies have been under the instruction of Professors Frederick Thiebaud, Gena Cannon and Jesse Parker, respectively.
She has been an active participant in local music organizations. From 1974-1986 she was a member of the Garland Music Teachers Association in Garland, Texas where she held many offices including President. Through this organization she was also a member of the Texas Music Teachers Association and the Music Teachers National Association. In the Texas Music Teachers Association she held the position of World of Music Chairman for the Student Affiliate for several years.
In California she was an active member of the Contra Costa County Branch of the Music Teachers Association of California from 1987-1990 and of the Santa Clarita Valley Branch of MTAC from 1991- 2003. She held the office of President in the SCV Branch from 1994-1996. She also served on the Composers Today State Board for Music Teachers Association of California in the position of Publicity and Information.
In Arizona she is a member of the Tucson Music Teachers Association, Arizona State Music Teachers Association and the Music Teachers National Association since 2003. She is presently on the Executive Board of the Tucson Music Teachers Association as Member-at-Large.
She has been a keyboard evaluator for the Certificate of Merit program of the California Music Teachers Association from 1997-2003 and has also been an adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers since 1997.
She was very proud to be chosen to be a curriculum consultant for Knowledge Adventure, Inc. evaluating and giving suggestions on new software for music activity games in the newly released upgrade JUMPSTART 4TH GRADE ADVENTURES 2000. The previous version sold over six million copies making it the best selling 4th grade curriculum software as of December, 1999.
Ms. Albertson is the author of "The Chart of Fifths, an Alternative to the Circle", published in the PIANO GUILD NOTES, November/December 1993. The workbook, THE CHART OF FIFTHS and accompanying chart are based on that article and are designed to be taught by teachers pursuing a new way to teach key signatures.
The teaching of theory has always been foremost to Mrs. Albertson because she is of the strong opinion that musical training is not complete without a comfortable understanding of its theory, both written and applied.
