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"I make every effort to teach with heart, passion, and a sense of humor."-- Noreen Wenjen, NCTM Noreen Wenjen received a BM from UC Santa Barbara in Piano Performance, an Artist Diploma from the American College of Musicians, and the 15-year MTNA National Teaching Certification in 2012. Noreen has received top prizes from international piano competitions and is listed in Who's Who Among American Women. Her teachers include Joanna Hodges, Nancy Rohr, Peter Yazbeck, Dr. Stewart Gordon, and Jim McCormick. Noreen is the President of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT). She also serves as Chair of The MTNA China Certification Task Force and is part of the MTNA AMT Editorial Committee for their national magazine, American Music Teacher. She served as the state Membership Secretary for CAPMT and as Piano Auditions/Ensemble Auditions Chair for CAPMT District 3 for almost 20 years. Noreen has been a member of MTAC since 1998 and served as 1st Vice President and Community Outreach Chair. Noreen's experience in marketing with Nissin Foods and MacTemps (now Aquent) has helped her bring her business savvy to her piano studio and www.wenjenpiano.com website. She Recently presented The Business-Minded Piano Teacher: Protection, Prevention, and Development Tips for Your Music Studio and presented Two-year Wait List: How to Build and Maintain a Recession-proof Music Studio at the 2015 MTNA Conference in Las Vegas. She presented three music technology sessions at the 2016 MTAC Convention in Los Angeles. Noreen has written two books that will be published in 2019 and 2020 by Audrey Press: Two-Year Wait List: The Premiere Marketing Guide for Music Teachers and Zoom, Text, Tweet! Interacting with Today’s Music Students through Videos, Websites, and Technology. She is privileged to-have taught extraordinary students who are blind, deaf, gifted, gifted Profoundly, dyslexic, and-have ADHD. Her students-have received awards in piano competitions and she serves as an adjudicator the MTAC, SYMF, and SCJBF, among other events. She maintains piano studios and Seal Beach in Torrance, CA and enjoys playing tennis, cooking, and surfing with her family.