Helen
Marlais’ active performance schedule includes collaborative
concerts in North America, Western Europe, the Middle East,
and Asia. Marlais is one of the most prolific authors in
the field of educational piano books. Her critically acclaimed
and award-winning piano series, Succeeding with the
Masters®, The Festival Collection®,
In Recital®, Sight Reading and Rhythm®,
Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory®, and The
FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions®, among others,
are exclusively published by The FJH Music Company. As well
as being the Director of Keyboard Publications for The FJH
Music Company, she is also an Associate Professor of Music
at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
where she teaches piano majors, directs the piano pedagogy
program, and coordinates all of the group piano programs,
which includes the young beginner piano program.
She
performs and gives workshops throughout the country and
at all of the national music teachers’ conventions.
Her articles can be read in Keyboard Companion,
The American Music Teacher, and Clavier
magazines. Her more than 60 educational piano CD’s
are recorded on Stargrass® Records.
Dr. Marlais has
performed with members of the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minnesota,
Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Beijing National
Symphony Orchestras to name a few, and has recorded on Gasparo
and Centaur record labels with her husband, concert clarinetist
Arthur Campbell. They have had numerous collaborative performances
broadcast regionally, nationally, and internationally, on
radio, television, and the Internet. Her travels abroad
have included performing and teaching at the leading conservatories
and festivals in Italy, France, Hungary, Turkey, Lithuania,
Estonia, and China. She has premiered many new contemporary
works by composers from the Unites States, Canada, and Europe
and is also the pianist for the chamber music group Trio
Nuovo. This group specializes in playing both new and
well-known music for clarinet, bass clarinet, and piano.
She received
her DM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern
University and her MM in piano performance from Carnegie
Mellon University.
