Jacqueline Herbein has an extensive background in the physiology of piano technique, having studied with such leaders in the field as Edna Golandsky, associate director of The Taubman Institute, Barbara Lister-Sink, producer of the critically acclaimed video Freeing the Caged Bird, and Barbara Conable, author of the manual What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body. Ms. Herbein has been an assistant at The Taubman Institute and WingSound Summer Intensive Training Program, where she also served as program coordinator. As an outgrowth of her intensive study and her desire to enhance pianists’ and teachers’ knowledge in healthy, well-coordinated piano technique, Ms. Herbein developed the training workshop, The Physically Perceptive Pianist. She has been invited to present her work at universities, state music conventions as well as local teacher organizations and music schools.  June 2002 marked the first weeklong Physically Perceptive Pianist training program at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

An active soloist and ensemble performer in Western Pennsylvania, Ms. Herbein initiated the Westmoreland Chamber Concert Series, serving as both artistic director and pianist, and frequently collaborates with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony.  She has released two compact discs, the first, American Diversions, with Belgian violinist Jenny Spanoghe, recorded for René Gailly International Productions, Brussels, Belgium, and the second, a solo recital. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras and in recital both here and abroad and can be frequently heard on the WQED-FM radio program Performance in Pittsburgh.

Ms. Herbein’s work with pre-college students has received special recognition, and she has twice been invited to be a guest artist at the Mississippi Piano Showcase, an intensive week of teaching, lectures and master classes with high school pianists throughout the South.  She has taught at Lehigh University, Seton Hill College and the Chatham College Laboratory School of Music and today maintains a private piano studio in the Pittsburgh area.  Currently chairperson of the Independent Music Teachers Forum for the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association, her own students have won numerous awards and competitions at the local, state and regional levels.  Ms. Herbein earned the BM degree with highest honors from Converse College, and the MM degree from the University of North Texas, where she was a teaching fellow.