JME welcomes piano students

JME — Junior Music Experience — is a piano performance evaluation program for young people in the Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky area. Lenore Wilkinson and Linda Henn Bergholz established the program in 1982 to encourage young piano students to continue their studies and to reward them for their efforts. Not a “contest,” JME enables even young, beginning piano students to participate in student-friendly evaluations — not competitions in front of a panel of judges but rather in a one-on-one environment with a piano teacher like their own. Get more information here.

If you are a student who would like to participate in a future JME Evaluation, ask your teacher to contact JME for information.

Next Evaluations

The spring JME Evaluations will be conducted on Saturday, April 26, 2008. The Evaluations take place at several locations in the Greater Cincinnati area including Northern Kentucky.

For more information about JME events go here.

Information for participants

If you will be participating in a JME Evaluation and need information about what to do and how to find your Evaluation location, go here.

Lori Gephart joins Linda Bergholz as JME Director

To continue the good work started by Lenore Wilkinson and Linda Bergholz, Lori Gephart has graciously agreed to join Linda Bergholz as a new JME Director. Lori has participated in JME events for more than 20 years, most recently as Kentucky Coordinator. “JME has been important to me for a long time,” said Lori. “I feel honored to be involved in managing the organization.”

Lenore Wilkinson died in 2006.

Linda Bergholz will continue as Executive Director of JME.

Looking for a piano teacher?

If you are looking for a piano teacher in the Greater Cincinnati area, we invite you to contact one of the teachers who participates in JME. Here is a partial list arranged by location.