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Dr. Joan Singer Spicknall, founder and director of The Suzuki Music School of Maryland, Inc., is foremost, a music educator and performer. As a scholarship student in Piano at the Peabody Conservatory (now the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, she received a Teachers Certificate, B.M., and M.M., and her postgraduate work continued in Chamber Music. While holding a Teaching Assistantship at the University of Maryland, she received her D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy, with minors in Theory and Music Literature. She taught in colleges in Maryland, Indiana, and Iowa, notably, the University of Maryland, Saint Mary of the Woods, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Morningside College, and Loyola College, as well as others. Dr. Spicknall became interested in Suzuki Method, and completed all the levels of training through the S.A.A., Inc. She founded THE SUZUKI MUSIC SCHOOL OF MARYLAND, INC. in 1988, and serves as the Director and a Piano Instructor. The School offers instruction in all instruments and voice, Suzuki and Traditional Methods, as well as a variety of Enrichment Opportunity Classes. It also sponsors a Music and Arts Camp in the Summer. Dr. Spicknall has presented papers and lectures at conferences nationally and internationally. Most recently she was invited to be part of a PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MUSIC EDUCATORS DELEGATION TO SOUTH AFRICA, where she also presented a paper. She has been invited to participate in their programs before, as well as upcoming delegations to other countries. Earlier in 2003 she was honored to participate in the 23rd Annual Engineers in Concert at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an event she co-founded with a student while serving on the faculty there.