Phyllis Alpert Lehrer is known internationally as a teacher, performer, clinician, author, and adjudicator. She has given master classes and workshops, and enjoyed an active concert career as a soloist and collaborative artist in the U.S., Canada, Central and South America, Asia, and Europe.
Ms. Lehrer is Professor Emerita of Piano at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. She now serves on the artist faculty of the Westminster Conservatory community music school. She has presented regularly at conferences, and she is a founding member of Young Audiences of New Jersey and the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance. Her collaboration of over 35 years with Ena Bronstein Barton includes two CDs featuring duets and two-piano works.
Recent publications include five volumes entitled Classics for the Developing Pianist, co-edited with Ingrid Clarfield, along with their Study Guides; Personal Trainer, five volumes devoted to keyboard theory, sight playing, technique and repertoire, co-authored with Paul Sheftel; and Chopin: An Album, published by Carl Fischer. Ms. Lehrer wrote the practice suggestions for the four books of Piano Etudes for the Development of Musical Fingers. Among her other edited works are Fantasie-Variations and Sonata, No. 2, Op. 31 by Dianne Goolkasian-Rahbee, Outside the Box by Kevin Olson and Wynn-Anne Rossi, and Dance Preludes for Piano Duet by Timothy Brown. Ms. Lehrer contributed several chapters to A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers, and co-authored The Inner Game of Music Keyboard Workbook with Barry Green.
Ms. Lehrer received a B.A. with music concentration from the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music, and an M.S. in piano from the Juilliard School of Music. She was honored as a Music Teachers National Association Foundation Fellow in 2007, and voted NJMTA Teacher of the Year for 2012-2013. In 2019 she received the Westminster Merit Award from the Alumni Association. At NCKP 2021, she received the Frances Clark Center Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding dedication to the field of music and piano teaching.