Melody Bober
As a composer, Melody Bober enjoys creating motivational piano pieces that foster her students' understanding and love of music.
Melody graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a bachelor's degree in music education. She later received a Master of Arts degree in piano performance from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Melody credits much of her success to her influential teachers who include Joel Shapiro and Andrew Froelich (piano), Mary Hoffman (music education), and Tony Caramia (jazz).
An active church pianist and accompanist, Melody has also held the position of church music director. In addition to teaching piano in her private studio, Melody's music-teaching experience includes 20 years of public school and two years at the university level.
A dynamic clinician and innovative composer, Melody is in great demand at conventions and workshops for piano teachers across North America. She resides in Minnesota with her husband Jeff.
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This is the third and final article about the new elementary series Solo Xtreme, a collection of three books from early elementary transitioning to the early intermediate level, that challenge students to do “X-treme” feats at the piano.
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Let’s look at a composition from Book 2 of the Solo Xtreme series—the mid to late elementary level—called “Steps to a Mystery,” a piece with ‘X-treme’ right hand movement.
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New pieces for piano students often focus on one new concept at a time—two note slurs, staccato vs. legato, accents, new harmonies, etc. What if all of these concepts were found in the same piece?
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