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Phone: 803-938-3831
Room: 119 Arts and Letters Building
Division of Arts and Letters
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Instructor
Music
Jane Luther Smith has received the Licentiate Performer's Diploma in Piano from London's Royal Academy of Music. Her work with first-generation Matthay students includes extensive study with Denise Lassimonne in England and additional work with the late Frank Mannheimer. She received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees (cum laude Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of South Carolina where her teachers included John Williams and John Kenneth Adams . Miss Smith was also a student of the late Elizabeth Newell at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina.
Her experience as a performer has been varied, including appearances in England, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, California, Minnesota, and Canada. In 1976 she was the winner of the AMA's Clara Wells Piano Auditions held at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and she was the recipient of a Chattanooga Cotton Ball Fellowship for advanced study in music in competitions held at the University of Tennessee (Chattanooga). She has been a featured performer both on the South Carolina Educational TV and Radio networks. She was the winner of the 1996 "Woman of Achievement Award" in the area of fine arts presented by the YWCA of the Upper Lowlands, Inc.
In addition to her demand as a solo recitalist, she is on the music faculty of the University of South Carolina, Sumter, and has taught Music Fundamentals for Central Carolina Technical College. She is owner of Jane Luther Smith Piano Studios in Sumter.
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