Academics at MBC
Music Faculty
Lise Keiter-Brotzman
Pianist Lise Keiter-Brotzman has performed nation-wide and
is active as a solo recitalist, collaborative artist, and soloist with orchestra.
In the summer of 1998, she was awarded a fellowship to study at the Internationale
Academie de Musique in Gargenville, France, where she appeared several times
in performance. In the fall of 2006, she returned to France and performed two
concerts as part of the International Roussel Festival. In November
of 2006, she was the featured soloist in a performance of Beethoven’s Third
Piano Concerto at Elon University, and other recent performances have
taken her to Virginia Commonwealth University, James Madison University, the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Davidson College, Emory and Henry College,
and West Liberty State University (West Virginia).
Dr. Keiter-Brotzman joined the faculty at Mary Baldwin College in the fall
of 1998 and is currently the music department chair. Her work at Mary Baldwin
has led her to develop an interest in the music of women composers, and in
2005 she developed an all-women composers program of solo piano works in honor
of the bicentenary year of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847).
This highly popular recital has become her most requested program, and she
has performed it over a dozen times to date.
Frequently called upon as a lecturer, adjudicator, and masterclass clinician,
Dr. Keiter-Brotzman is active in many organizations. She is the MTNA Competitions
Chair for Virginia and serves as vice-president of the Charlottesville Music
Teachers’ Association (CMTA). In addition, she is president of the Mid-Atlantic
Chapter of the College Music Society (CMS) and recently represented her chapter
at the CMS National Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, as a panelist on the topic
of “Education in Music is Every Musician’s Responsibility.” She
is also committed to local groups, serving on the boards of the Valley Symphonic
Concerts and the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra.
Originally from Charleston, Illinois, Dr. Keiter-Brotzman has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, where she received several top prizes. She completed a Master’s Degree and the Doctorate of Music at Indiana University, where she also received the Award for Outstanding Teaching. Her teachers have included Leonard Hokanson, Gyorgy Sebok, Robert McDonald, Emile Nauomoff, and Evelyn Brancart.
Robert Allen, PhD
Associate Professor of Music
Adjunct Faculty
Susan Black (violin, viola)
Elizabeth Brightbill (flute)
Beth
Cantrell (cello)
Jolene Flory (voice, madrigal singers)
Linda Heuer (piano,
staff accompanist)
Laura Hoffman (Fundamentals)
Eloise Kornicke (piano)
Lynne
Mackey (piano)
Ibby Roberts (bassoon)
Melissa Sumner (voice)
David Tate (choir,
music education)
Adrienne Wager (harp)
