
Scott Price currently serves as Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy, Head of the Piano Area, Coordinator of Group Piano, and Coordinator of Piano Pedagogy at the University of South Carolina School of Music. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, The Cleveland Institute of Music, and Bowling Green State University (OH), his recent engagements have included performances and clinics at the national conventions of the Music Teachers National Association, the National Keyboard Pedagogy Conference, and solo recitals throughout South Carolina, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, and Washington DC. Dr. Price is creator and editor-in-chief of the on-line piano pedagogy journal "Piano Pedagogy Forum". Now in its tenth year of publication, "Piano Pedagogy Forum" has published 20 issues with participation from 102 writers from 84 different colleges/universities, 28 different states and two foreign countries.
Dr. Price has recorded 28 compact discs of educational piano music for Alfred Publishing Company, and has published educational compositions with Alfred Publishing Company and FJH Music Company. He serves as chair of the Committee on Special Needs Students for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and served as chair of the Autism Task Force for the Music Teachers National Association, and served on the planning committee of the 2006 National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum National Convention. Special teaching interests of Dr. Price included teaching students with disabilities, very young children, and teaching keyboard improvisation to piano students ranging from beginning to advanced levels. His work with disabled students has been featured on WISTV (SC) and WLTX (SC), in The State Newspaper (SC), Columbia Metropoliltan Magazine, and was featured at the 2005 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. One of Dr. Price's autistic students was recently featured on Dateline NBC and CNN.
Scott Price was awarded the "Best of BGSU Outstanding Graduate" alumnus award from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 2002, and was invited back to the University of Oklahoma as a "Distinguished Guest Alumnus" in March of 2005 to perform, lecture, and present a piano masterclass. Other recent engagements include performances and masterclasses in Thailand, Singapore, and in Kuala Lumpur and Penang in Malaysia, and lectures at the 2005 Georgia State Music Teachers State Convenetion. Upcoming appearances include performances, lectures and sessions with the Ohio Music Teachers Association, and the International Collaborative Conference of the Music Teachers National Association/Canadian Federation of Music Teachers/Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada.