Falk Piano Studio

Teresa Compos Falk, Juilliard Alumni

 

Teresa Compos-Falk, a resident of Yorktown, Virginia, received her earliest piano training in her Pennsylvania hometown at the Bethlehem Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Alma E. Hoch.

 

During her teen years, she studied with Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute of Music and later received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School of Music, studying with famed pedagogue Adele Marcus and also Ania Dorfman. Her extensive professional experience includes the New York Times critically acclaimed solo recitals at Town Hall, NY, Carnegie Recital Hall, NY, and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. College and university concerts were given as Teri was a faculty member for fourteen years at 3 colleges in the New York / New Jersey area.

 

As a piano soloist, she gave Faculty Exchange concerts at Dartmouth (Hopkins Hall), Seton Hall, Moravian College, numerous colleges on the Eastern Seaboard, and in the Midwest. Chamber music programs at Tanglewood, Aspen Music Festivals, Federal Hall, and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center were also a part of her performing experience. Concerts followed in Korea as part of securing a visiting professorship in Seoul, Korea.

 

In 1987, Teresa received an MTNA Master Teacher certification and returned to the United States after living in Korea while her husband, John, served two years as an Army Chaplain in Seoul. In 1988, Teri opened a piano studio in Hampton Roads, VA, and became VMTA treasurer shortly after. She has served as a VMTA Baldwin and Yamaha judge before her studio yielded MTNA State, Southern Division, and National Baldwin and Yamaha winners.

 

In the summer of 1994, she was chosen to participate in the French Piano Institute at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris.  It was a three-month period of study, concerts, and performing in master classes five times. She also served as local Peninsula Music Teachers president for four years.

 

Her studio, with 50-plus students, has won many State and National awards and competitions. Many have also gone on to study at Ivy Leagues and prestigious music conservatories.