Joyce Grill
Tasten- und Balginstrumente
Joyce Grill composer
date of birth: 20.04.1936
Joyce Grill (born April 20, 1936) is an American composer, teacher, and conductor.
Grill graduated from the University of WisconsinMadison where she completed a BM in Music in 1958. She received training at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France, where she studied piano with Robert and Jean Casadesus and theory and composition with Nadia Boulanger.
She taught piano, music appreciation, and accompanying classes at the University of WisconsinLa Crosse from 19741999 where she wrote the UWLa Crosse Fight Song.
She founded the La Crosse Area Music Teachers Association in 1980. Her first book Accompanying Basics was published in 1987 by KJOS. In 2006 she was named a MTNA Foundation Fellow. In 2010 she was the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association Commissioned Composer.
She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota and has held offices in both the Wisconsin State Music Teachers Association and the National Music Teachers Association.
Grill graduated from the University of WisconsinMadison where she completed a BM in Music in 1958. She received training at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France, where she studied piano with Robert and Jean Casadesus and theory and composition with Nadia Boulanger.
She taught piano, music appreciation, and accompanying classes at the University of WisconsinLa Crosse from 19741999 where she wrote the UWLa Crosse Fight Song.
She founded the La Crosse Area Music Teachers Association in 1980. Her first book Accompanying Basics was published in 1987 by KJOS. In 2006 she was named a MTNA Foundation Fellow. In 2010 she was the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association Commissioned Composer.
She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota and has held offices in both the Wisconsin State Music Teachers Association and the National Music Teachers Association.