Our featured symposium clinician this year is Leila Viss. Since 2012, Leila has inspired teachers, students, and parents through her blog (http://leilaviss.com/). She creates imaginative, tech-savvy resources for her piano studio and website, and offers Space to Create courses designed to help pianists nurture their creativity through improvisation, composition, and arranging.

Leila is known for her engaging presentations and is Colorado’s 2024 MTNA Foundation Fellow. Her presentation, titled Words Matter: Does Your Feedback Need Fixing?, will focus on providing meaningful feedback to Generation Alpha students. Leila will explain how traditional feedback often falls short and introduce six steps for transforming it into more effective”feedforward.”