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Elizabeth C. Axford

Liz earned her MA in Music from San Diego State Univ., and BA in Music from the Univ. of Illinois. One of the original seven NSAI Regional Workshop coordinators, she started the Miami, FL Workshop in 1990, and the San Diego Workshop in 1992, after Hurricane Andrew devastated the area of Miami in which she taught and lived. During this time, she has produced or attended over 150 songwriting/music business seminars in LA, Nashville, San Diego, Miami, Dallas, Orlando, and Daytona Beach, and conducted monthly workshops.

Liz has studied songwriting privately with Marc-Alan Barnette, Rick Beresford, Jason Blume, and Harriet Schock. She participated in Jai Josefs' songwriting classes at The Musician's Institute in LA, as well as his Monday Night Group with peers Alex Del Zoppo, Neil Devor, and Glenn Rumbaoa, among others. Many of her songs have won awards in international songwriting contests, including Billboard and Unisong, as well as regional songwriting contests. Her songs and arrangements have been heard on artists' CDs, in videos, on the radio, in TV commercials, on PBS, CNN, and the CW, on Internet web sites, as ringtones, and as sound chips in greeting cards and gift bags.

Her critically acclaimed music reference books written for Scarecrow Press, "Song Sheets to Software - A Guide to Print Music, Software, Instructional Media and Web Sites for Musicians" and "Traditional World Music Influences in Contemporary Solo Piano Literature" are in university and public libraries throughout the world. Her "Keyboard Chops" articles are online at www.indie-music.com as well as the Piano Press Newsletter at Yahoo Groups. Her column "Songwriting and the Web" appeared in the NSAI Newswire.

Elizabeth C. Axford

Liz earned her MA in Music from San Diego State Univ., and BA in Music from the Univ. of Illinois. One of the original seven NSAI Regional Workshop coordinators, she started the Miami, FL Workshop in 1990, and the San Diego Workshop in 1992, after Hurricane Andrew devastated the area of Miami in which she taught and lived. During this time, she has produced or attended over 150 songwriting/music business seminars in LA, Nashville, San Diego, Miami, Dallas, Orlando, and Daytona Beach, and conducted monthly workshops.

Liz has studied songwriting privately with Marc-Alan Barnette, Rick Beresford, Jason Blume, and Harriet Schock. She participated in Jai Josefs' songwriting classes at The Musician's Institute in LA, as well as his Monday Night Group with peers Alex Del Zoppo, Neil Devor, and Glenn Rumbaoa, among others. Many of her songs have won awards in international songwriting contests, including Billboard and Unisong, as well as regional songwriting contests. Her songs have been heard on the radio, in TV commercials, on CNN and PBS, as sound chips in greeting cards, and on the Internet.

Her critically acclaimed music reference books written for Scarecrow Press, "Song Sheets to Software - A Guide to Print Music, Software, and Web Sites for Musicians" and "Traditional World Music Influences in Contemporary Solo Piano Literature" are in university and public libraries throughout the world. Her "Keyboard Chops" articles are online at www.indie-music.com as well as the Piano Press Newsletter at Yahoo Groups. Her column "Songwriting and the Web" appeared in the NSAI Newswire.