Faculty & Staff
Dr. Jackie Edwards-Henry
Professor
Piano
jeh@ra.msstate.edu
(662) 325-2864
Music Building A, Room E
- Ph. D. University of Oklahoma (OK)
- M. M. University of Illinois (IL)
- B. S. William Jewell College (MO)
Jackie Edwards-Henry is professor of piano and piano pedagogy and the keyboard area chair at Mississippi State University, director of Mississippi Piano Showcase, and the current Vice-President for Membership for Mississippi Music Teachers Association. In addition to her university and professional service responsibilities, she maintains an active schedule as a performer, clinician and adjudicator. She has performed throughout the Southern, Midwestern and Eastern United States, as well as in Canada and Great Britain with Gail Levinsky, saxophonist, Lana Johns, flutist and The Langston Trio [Barrington Coleman, tenor, Gail Levinsky, alto saxophone, and Jackie Edwards-Henry, piano] in concerts and at regional, national and international conferences.
Recent accomplishments by Dr. Edwards include the following: a premier of "Call and Response" for alto saxophone and piano by James Aikman at the 2002 British Saxophone Congress, Cardiff, Wales; the release of a CD in July 2002, Saxophone and Other Voices, with saxophonist Gail Levinsky; and an article, "Sonata by Mozart, Lyrics by Ima Desperate Teacher," published in the April/May 2002 issue of American Music Teacher. Dr. Edwards received a Ph.D. in piano pedagogy from The University of Oklahoma, B.S. and M.M. degrees in performance and pedagogy from William Jewell College and The University of Illinois, and pursued additional piano study in Bordeaux, France as the recipient of a Rotary Scholarship.