A Respected and Celebrated Pianist in the Music Industry

Marie Mendelow has been teaching piano and percussion for over fifty years on four different continents. She received her collegiate training in her native South Africa at Witswatersrand University and completed all the piano examinations through the Royal Schools of Music, London. She studied piano under Dr. Adolph Hallis, a World Master, and was invited at the age of seventeen to join the Primary Orchestra of South Africa (SABC Orchestra), where she performed weekly on national television as one of their four percussionists. She has served on the faculty of the Orange Free State University and has been living and teaching piano and percussion in New Hampshire since 1991.

In 2007, Governor Lynch signed a proclamation making her New Hampshire's Music Teacher of the Year.