Lelia Sadlier

Ms. Sadlier earned the Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and the Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School. She is currently completing the Doctor of Music degree in piano performance and literature from Indiana University. She taught theory at Baylor University was on the Taylor University faculty as an adjunct instructor of piano and principal coach and co-music director of TU Opera Theater. Concurrently, she was a teaching assistant, vocal coach, and accompanist in several teaching studios at Indiana University. Prior to that, Ms. Sadlier was Assistant Coordinator of Secondary Piano, Associate Instructor of Piano, and Head of the Young Pianists Theory Program at IU. She also has served as staff accompanist for Opera North, Loyola University, the University of New Orleans, Juilliard School of Music, and New York School for Strings. In addition to her many performances as a recitalist and accompanist, she has appeared as concerto soloist with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, and the New Orleans Civic Symphony Orchestra. She performs often as a chamber musician, as well as a collaborative artist with her husband, tenor David Sadlier. Among her earlier achievements, Ms. Sadlier's articles have been published in Music Teacher Magazine, she was an ASCAP Young Composer's Competition Finalist (1989), the youngest student on the USA Today All-Academic Team (1988), an international audition winner of the TCU/Cliburn Institute (1987), a first-place winner in the MTNA Composition Contest (1987), and the youngest-ever composer to study with Leonard Bernstein at Boston University Tanglewood Institute (1986). Ms. Sadlier teaches applied piano and keyboard skills at CNU.