Professional Career
She began her teaching career at Philadelphia University of the Arts and then taught at the Manhattan School of Music in 1987. Between 1989 and 1997 she taught at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
In 1993 she began to teach at the Juilliard School. She became the chairperson of the Piano Division in 1997. She has served as a frequent adjudicator at prestigious international competitions, among them include the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas, where her student Joyce Yang won a second prize in 2005. She has been appointed by the Juilliard President Joseph Polisi as the Susan Rose Chair in piano and Artistic Director of the Juilliard School's Pre-College division.
Since 2006 she has been Professor of Piano in the Texas Christian University School of Music.
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