About Christie Peery:

Christie Peery-Skousen has performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras around the world including the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony, and Samara Philharmonic, performing with such conductors as Joseph Silverstein, Peter Schickele, Mikhail Sherbakov, and Ignat Solzhenitzyn. Orchestral and solo performances have taken her to Geneva, Moscow, Calgary, Michigan, Texas, Colorado, California, Baltimore, and New York. She has won numerous national and international competitions including the Corpus Christi International and the Missouri Southern International. Other international prizes for Christie include the Junior division of the Gina Bachauer International and the Joanna Hodges Competition in California

In 1998 she co-founded and served as the Director of Business Operations for the Metta Academy of Music. In 2001 she founded Music Business Solutions, a company that provides business services to private music teachers.

Ms. Peery-Skousen currently serves as the Master Teacher and founder of Peery Piano Academy and is the author of the Peery Piano Habits Program, a conservatory level teaching and certification system. She serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory where she is head of the First Steps at the Keyboard program. Her students are frequent prize winners in local and national competitions and perform as soloists and with orchestras throughout the Bay Area

About ArtistWorks:

ArtistWorks, Inc is a Napa, California company that develops Internet-based businesses in partnership with leading musicians, virtuosos and other world-renown experts. The ArtistWorks’ platform is artist-centric and student friendly. Utilizing ArtistWorks’ unique proprietary video technology, students submit their own videos for evaluation, and are provided written and video responses directly from the Artist. The social networking community provides a lasting legacy of teaching for the artists and a worldwide gathering place for like-minded students.
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