SCHUBERT, Myra Jean

Training more than 100 piano teachers and composers throughout her over 60-year long career, Ms. Schubert has taught composition since 1970. She also teaches piano, music theory, pedagogy and improvisation to students of all ages. A past instructor at Southern Nazarene University, she was also a private piano instructor in Bethany and both a composer and arranger with Lillenas Publishing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, and Alfred Publishing Company. A pianist and an organist at Bethany Nazarene Church since 1968, Ms. Schubert regularly presented her students at auditions for the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association (OMTA), receiving a plaque in 2005 to commemorate her 40th year anniversary with the OMTA and MTNA, receiving her 50 year pin with MTNA and OMTA in 2015, and becoming designated as the Distinguished Teacher of the Year in 2007.