Sheila Keats attended Radcliffe Colllege, Syracuse University, and received her B.S. in piano from Juilliard. Her teachers include Carl Friedberg, Jane Carlson, Lonny Epstein, and Adele Marcus. She has served as an Administrative Assistant to Richard Franko Goldman, Managing Editor of the Juilliard Review. Ms. Keats has also been the author of educational materials for Lincoln Center Student Programs and an annotator for the American Symphony with conductor Leopold Stokowski. She has been a member of the accompanying staff at Juilliard since 1971 and has served as an accompanist at Suzuki Institutes and both national and international Suzuki Teacher’s conferences. Ms. Keats has been a private piano teacher since 1954 and is a founder, with Robert Fraley, of the first Suzuki piano program in the greater New York area. She has also taught at the Diller-Quaile School and served as a visiting professor at Universidad Internacional Mendez Pelao, Santander, Spain. Ms. Keats was a Master Teacher and the 13th International Suzuki Method Conference in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1999. She was the Associate Director of the School for Strings from 1971-1995 and currently serves as the head of the Piano Department and Director of the Suzuki Teacher-Training Program in Piano.
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