Janice Meyer Thompson

Jan enjoys the view of the Arno in Florence.
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Janice Meyer Thompson, pianist, enjoys a diverse career as soloist, collaborative artist, lecture-recitalist, and master teacher on three continents. Chamber music performances with The Kent Camerata and other colleagues have taken her throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, with recent recitals and master classes presented in the premier conservatories of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin (China), Seoul, and Ulsan (South Korea). Jan Thompson collaborates with Vermont pianist Elaine Greenfield in performances, workshops, and university master classes given by their prolific coast-to-coast ensemble, The Transcontinental Piano Duo. Ms. Thompson is a frequent presenter at national and international music conferences and festivals and is a member of the Adamant Music School (Vermont) summer artist faculty. She is recorded on compact disc in performances with The Kent Camerata (Kent Camerata Favorites), with singers Mary Sue Hyatt and Jane Dressler (Song Upon Song, TimeGrabber Digital) with bassoonist David DeBolt (A Musical Painting Comes to Life, Crystal CD 841), and with The Transcontinental Piano Duo (Piano 4-Hands, Concert Favorites, The Elegant Erard).

Dr. Thompson is nationally recognized for her leadership in the field of piano pedagogy and for her academic accomplishments as Professor of Piano at the Arizona State University School of Music in Tempe. She is founding director of the ASU Piano Prep and Conservatory Programs and coordinator of graduate piano performance/pedagogy degree programs. Her published articles have appeared in American Music Teacher, Clavier, Keyboard Companion, and in the Proceedings of the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. Ms. Thompson holds the Doctor of Music degree in Performance-Chamber Music from Northwestern University, where her principal teachers were Gui Mombaerts and Donald Isaak. She has coached with Murray Periah, John Browning, Phyllis Curtin, Phyllis Rappeport, and Bela Nagy.

"Pianist Jan Thompson possessed….beautiful sound, easy versatility of style, and remarkable sensitivity to phrasing and nuance” (Chicago Sun Times)

“…Jan Meyer Thompson is the excellent pianist in the Cherubini and Chabrier numbers…showing stylistic versatility as well as technical mastery.” (Robert McColley, Fanfare )

"Meyer was in complete melodic control and handled her thematic share with deep and convincing emotional involvement." (Dmitri Drobatschewsky, The Arizona Republic)

"As an accompanist, Jan Meyer Thompson was a support and inspiration to her colleagues, while as a soloist she was sovereign and convincing in her interpretation of Capriccio in G Minor by Johannes Brahms." (Margit Classen, Gelchsheim Blatt)