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Milford Square Music Studio

2244 Milford Square Pike
215-536-8142

Gloriana Sewell started piano instruction at the age of seven with Marilyn Grupp, trained at the Juilliard School of Music. During her eleven years of study with Miss Grupp she performed in studio recitals in Steinway Hall, Knabe Hall, Judson Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City and entered National Guild Auditions in the New York City center. In 1965 she won the Music Education League piano competition and performed in Town Hall in New York City.

Mrs. Sewell gained accompanying experience starting in 7th grade choir in junior high school and also accompanied extensively for both congregational and solo singing in church. In high school, she accompanied for both general and specialized choirs, played piano in the jazz band and was the accompanist for the New York State All-State Sectional Chorus in 1965. She was chosen to perform a concerto with the Huntington Philharmonia through a school competition in 1966. She took three years of music theory in high school and wrote two acts of an original opera that was performed by her classmates and a solo piano piece that she performed at her graduation ceremony. She was the recipient of the Magna Cum Laude Musicae Award in her senior class of over 600 students and graduated Valedictorian of the Class of 1966 from Walt Whitman High School in Huntington, Long Island.

Mrs. Sewell received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in piano from Bob Jones University in South Carolina. She studied with Laurence Morton, chairman of the piano department. She presented her senior recital, performed on the university radio station and Vespers programs, was a finalist in the commencement piano competition and earned the National Guild Collegiate Diploma. She also won first place in the South Carolina Music Teachers Concerto Competition and performed a concerto with the Charleston Symphony. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and third in her class in 1970.

From 1970-71 Mrs. Sewell studied privately with Reginald Stewart, retired head of piano from the Peabody Conservatory and Resident Artist at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. From 1976-78 she studied piano with Phyllis Clark at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Keren Ligowski started Suzuki piano lessons at the age of three with her mother, Gloriana Sewell. Keren was an active participant in studio piano recitals, National Guild Auditions, Achievement Awards Auditions of the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association, Suzuki Institutes at Ithaca, New York and Kingston, Ontario, and competitive auditions of the PMTA and Music Teachers National Association. She had her first National Guild Audition at the age of four and performed her first program of ten pieces at the age of five. In 1987 she earned the Paderewski medal for completing ten years of ten piece programs. In 1983 she started participating in the Achievement Awards Auditions of the LVPMTA and won a second place trophy in the Honors Recital. In 1987 she earned the Superior Plus plaque for receiving five consecutive years of Superior Plus ratings. In 1984 she started participating in the Baldwin Junior High Keyboard Competition of the MTNA, and in 1985 she won first place in the state. In 1987 she qualified in the district Yamaha High School Piano Competition and represented her local chapter at the state convention. In 1987 she also won the Voorhees Concerto Competition and performed the Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Allentown Symphony. In 1988 she won the state high school level of the MTNA Columbia Pictures Student Composition Competition.

The Milford Square Music Studio has two locations:

2244 Milford Square Pike in Milford Square

2330 Witchazel Drive in Trumbauersville.

Gloriana Sewell teaches private lessons in Milford Square, and Keren Ligowski teaches private lessons in Trumbauersville. The Kindermusik classes and all the Suzuki Piano Enrichment Classes and Saturday Workshops are held at the Milford Square studio.


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