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Maurice Hinson is one of America’s most respected authorities on piano literature. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Music Teachers National Association in 1994 and the Citation of Merit Award from the University of Michigan in 1995. Recently, he was awarded the Liszt Commemorative Medal by the Hungarian Government and the Medal of Excellence by the American Liszt Society for his research on the piano music of Franz Liszt. Hailed as a specialist in American piano music, his most recent articles appear in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Dr. Hinson is a piano clinician for Alfred Publishing and has given recitals, lectures, and master classes on five continents and in forty-eight states.

As Senior Professor of Piano in the School of Church Music at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Hinson teaches piano, piano literature, piano chamber music, piano pedagogy, and courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century styles. He is the author of ten books, including Guide to the Pianist’s Repertoire, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble, Music for Piano and Orchestra, The Pianist’s Guide to Transcriptions, Arrangements and Paraphrases, The Pianist’s Reference Guide, and The Vienna Urtext Piano Literature Guide and more than 75 articles. He is also the editor of over seventy editions of piano music for Alfred, Belwin-Mills, Boosey & Hawkes, Willis, Schott, European American and Hinshaw publishers, as well as the writer and presenter of six videos on performance practice in Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic and early 20 th-century piano music. Dr. Hinson is the founding editor of the Journal of the American Liszt Society, past editor for The American Music Teacher, and contributing editor for The Piano Quarterly. He records for Educo Records.

Dr. Hinson received his B.A. degree from the University of Florida, and his M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Michigan. He also studied at the Julliard School and the University of Nancy, France (Conservatoire National).