Gaye Bennes, Alexander Technique and Piano Gaye Bennes has B.S. and M.S. degrees in piano performance from the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with Beveridge Webster and Rosina Lhevinne. She has been active as a soloist and chamber musician, including performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Symphony Orchestra's pre-symphony concerts. Gaye has taught piano at the Longy School of Music, at Concord Academy, and has been Artist-in-Residence at Eastern Kentucky University, Delta State University (Mississippi), and Winona State University (Minnesota). Her training includes study in improvisation, Dalcroze Eurythmics, and the piano methods of Abby Whiteside and Dorothy Taubman. She is an STAT, AmSAT certified instructor of the Alexander Technique. Gaye has been composing pieces for piano with stories and poems to match since the age of seven. She likes to guide students to use imagination and natural creativity to develop and learn to enjoy their skills for the fullest possible experience of making music. With her training in Alexander Technique, Gaye gives special attention in piano teaching to the use of the body for posture and movement awareness.