Dr. Martha Baker-Jordan was a Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at California State University, Fullerton, for 34 years where she received numerous awards for teaching excellence and where she designed and implemented both Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Piano Pedagogy. In addition to many published articles and piano instruction books, she authored "Practical Piano Pedagogy," a 476-page best-selling piano pedagogy text.

Marty was a frequent presenter at state, national and international levels and served in many leadership capacities for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy as well as editing the "Proceedings" several times. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in 2011.

Marienne Uszler was editor of Piano & Keyboard magazine, author of That’s a Good Question, Play It Again, Sam, and Time Flies, and is co-author of The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher, Sound Choices: Guiding Your Child’s Musical Experiences, The Pedagogy Major in the College Curriculum: Undergraduate and Graduate Levels, and Teaching Piano Adventures. Recently she co-created the website Beethoven: Independent Man (beethoven.pianoadventures.com).

She is retired from the University of Southern California School of Music where she was Professor of Keyboard Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies, and where she established the piano pedagogy program.

For six years she was Editor for Articles and Reviews for American Music Teacher. Her articles, interviews, and critical reviews have appeared in The Piano Quarterly, American Music Teacher, Piano & Keyboard, and Arts and Education Policy Review. She has given workshops and presentations throughout the United States, as well as in England, Canada, Korea, Australia, and Finland.