Helen Marlais

Who is Helen Marlais?

Helen Marlais is a professional pianist and an exclusive writer for the FJH Music Company Inc. She has also been an editor for the following award-winning piano series, Succeeding with the Masters, The Festival Collection, In Recital, Sight Reading and Rhythm Every Day, and The FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions. Dr. Marlais has given pedagogical workshops in virtually every state in America and is an FJH showcase presenter at the National Piano Teachers' conventions.

As well as being the Director of Keyboard Publications for the FJH Music Company, Dr. Marlais is also an Associate Professor of Music at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches piano performance majors, directs the piano pedagogy program, and coordinates the young beginner piano program. She also maintains an active piano studio of beginner through high school age award-winning students.

Helen has given collaborative recitals throughout the US and in Canada, Italy, England, France, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, China and Australia, and has premiered many new works by contemporary composers from the United States, Canada, and Europe.