Betty Wishart Betty Wishart earned degrees in piano performance from Queens University and the University of North Carolina, and pursued additional study in New York City. Her major composition and piano teachers were Richard Bunger Evans, Roger Hannay, Donald Waxman and Michael Zenge. Her music, published by Conners Publications, has been performed throughout the United States and in England, France, Italy, South Korea and Japan. In addition to concert music, she has written sacred and pedagogical music. ”Folksongs for Four”, an elementary quodlibet for piano quartet, was included in the Federation of Music Clubs Junior Festivals Repertoire for 1998-2003. She has also presented workshops on “Contemporary Piano Music for Students” and adjudicated numerous piano and composition contests Wishart has been credited in numerous publications including Who’s Who in Music, Foremost Women of the 20th Century, World Who’s Who of Women, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, Personalities of the South, International Leaders in Achievement, and Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women. She has received awards from ASCAP (1996-2007), American Pen Women, American College of Musicians, Composers Guild, and has been Composer-in-Residence at Weymouth Center for the Arts. A member of the music faculty at Campbell University, she is also Composition/Theory Chair of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association, and immediate past president of the Southeastern Composers’ League.

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