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EDUCATION:
Juilliard School of Music while still in high school
New York University, Bachelor of Science at age 18
New York University, Master of Art at age 19
Private voice, piano, and composition studies with famous teachers in their field

MUSICAL ACTIVITIES:
Gave classical music solo piano recitals in Philadelphia, New York City, and Seward, Alaska
Performed in Bach Triple Concerto with Steuben Symphony Orchestra
Gave voice recitals and radio performances in New York City
Did professional accompanying and voice coaching for outstanding performers
Taught voice and piano privately at my Carnegie Hall studio for many years until moving to California
Taught music at the High School of Music and Art in New York City for 35 years until 1975
   Subjects taught: Voice training, choral and orchestral conducting, theory of music, orchestration,
    harmony, art of accompanying, history of music, conductor of mixed chorus, women’s chorus,
    class piano for students with no piano background, music appreciation for art students
Prepared several high school choruses for joint concerts with major orchestras
Public performances as pianist and accompanist for various organizations in Orange County
Currently private teaching and coaching of voice and piano in and around Orange County, California
Performed classical piano music at opening of Laguna Hills Leisure World Clubhouse Five
Performed for League of Women Voters, City of Hope, and opening of Lincoln Savings
Music coordinator/performer of first Saddleback College Emeritus Day Program (October 1980)

STUDENTS:
The following is a very short list of the wonderful students I may have influenced:
James Conlon, present music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Opera
Allan Vogel, oboist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Hal Linden, vocalist, clarinetist, and actor
Barbara Sparti, with her troupe enactment of Renaissance music in many European countries
Shari Lewis, great musician and puppeteer
Gerald Fried, composer and oboist
Gloria Davy, formerly with the New York Metropolitan Opera and Berlin Opera
Peter G. Jeffery, Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University
Diahann Carroll, actress and singer

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Assistant examiner for the New York City Board of Examiners
Acted as judge in a choral competition in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Author of book Creative Music Theory published by Allyn and Bacon, Boston 1972 [see right photo at page top]
Co-author of two books on harmony, Harmony In Action New York 1956
     Click here to contact Mildred Landecker for information on how to purchase this book.
Honored for outstanding teaching contribution at Saddleback College (October 1983)
Mentioned 5 times in book Accent on Talent by Dr. Ben Steigman published by Wayne Univ. Press
Guest lecturer at Laguna Beach Community Center
Guest lecturer several times at Sunday Discussion Group
Presented program at Academia’s Music Unites All People (October 1998)
Arranged for guest speaker Harriet Payne, violinist at Pacific Symphony and personnel manager at
     Pageant of the Masters to speak at two sessions of Landecker’s History of Music Classes (April 1992)
Arranged for guest speaker, Micah Levy, conductor of Orange County Chamber Music Orchestra,
     to speak to my “For the Love of Music” History of Music classes
Grass roots organizer of Leisure World contingency to attend the Long Beach Symphony
Officer of the Globe Twirlers (square dance group) in Laguna Hills
Chosen as Leisure Worlder of the Month (February 1995) [see left photo at page top]
Named Teacher of the Year by Saddleback College Emeritus Program (January 2001 and April 2008).
     If you would like to a picture of Mildred in cap and gown receiving her award, click here or click here.
     If you would like to an article and photo which appeared in the May 30, 2008 Orange County Register, click here
     If you would like to a Saddleback College advertisement which features me and which appeared in June 2008, click here
Honored by the Board of Trustees, South Orange County Community College District (July 2003)
Associate Professor of Music, teaching music history/appreciation as well as
     opera history at Saddleback College from September 1978 to December 2008 (30 years)
Taught at Saddleback Valley Unified School District Adult Education Program from 1975 to 1978
For information about the LaGuardia High School Mildred Landecker Choral Music
    Purchase Endowed Fund, please click here or here.

To see a photo of James Conlon and Mildred Landecker backstage after an LA Opera
    performance he conducted in September 2006, please click here.
    To see a photo of James Conlon and Mildred Landecker backstage after an LA Opera performance
    he conducted in February 2008, please click here. If you would like to see a photo of Los Angeles
    Opera Music Director James Conlon on September 21, 2008 posing
    backstage at Dorothy Chandler Hall, click here or click here.

To see a photo of James Conlon and Mildred backstage after an LA Opera performance

on February 27, 2010, click here.
Mildred Landecker was Maestro Conlon's first conducting teacher.

For my personal donor story, please click here.

You can contact me at mlandecker@yahoo.com.

Mildred Landecker's musical education and background cover a broad spectrum of professional and academic activity. Earlier she attended the Julliard School of Music, and later she received her Bachelor of Science degree at age 18, and her Master of Arts degree at age 19 from New York University. She had concertized as a pianist and a singer before her high school and private teaching engrossed her attention.

For 35 years Mildred Landecker had been a teacher at the High School of Music and Art in New York City where she served as a judge on the Admissions Board. There she taught conducting, music theory and harmony, voice, accompanying, orchestration, choral ensemble, music history, and piano. Concurrently she taught privately at her studio in Carnegie Hall.

Mildred Landecker is the author of three music textbooks. For 30 years at Saddleback College, Emeritus Institute, she taught courses in the history and appreciation of music, Music Fundamentals (theory of music) and the Development of Opera. She retired in December 2008. She now teaches piano and voice privately in Laguna Woods, California. She also is a vocal coach. She loves her students, and she loves to teach!

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This page was last revised on March 12, 2010.