Merlin B. Thompson

Merlin B. Thompson (Ph.d., M.A., B. Mus.) is an award winning educator, musician, and scholar. He is an internationally recognized authority on the Suzuki Piano Method and the first Canadian to graduate from the Matsumoto Talent Education Research Institute, where he studied with Suzuki Piano Method cofounders Drs. Shinichi Suzuki and Haruko Kataoka. He has worked with hundreds of children, parents, and teachers in workshops, institutes, conferences, established programs, and mentorships throughout Canada, U.S.A., Australia, Japan, Spain, Great Britain, and New Zealand. Currently an instructor in music pedagogy at the Schulich School of Music (McGill University) and teacher mentor in the Werklund School of Education (University of Calgary), he also maintains an active piano teaching studio and publishes in numerous international academic journals.