Rebecca Shockley

Rebecca Shockley (PhD’80), professor emerita of piano pedagogy at the University of Minnesota School of Music, recently published a revised and expanded edition of her mother’s memoir, Is There a Piano in the House? Her mother, Dorothy Stolzenbach Payne, was a well-known pianist and teacher in Cincinnati for many years. Originally published in 1985 by the Keyboard Club (which she founded in 1935), the book includes new photos, letters, programs and stories