Lawrence Blind

Lawrence Blind received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from the Indiana University School of Music, and the coveted Performer’s Certificate while studying with Nelita True at the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Blind was a national winner of the prestigious Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Competition, a winner of the Young Keyboard Artist Association International Piano Competition, and a Semi-Finalist in the William Kapell International Piano Competition. Reviewers have praised his playing as “Electrifyingly exciting…amazing control, meltingly lyrical tone, flawless technique, and tremendous sonority…” and demonstrating “…an unfailing sureness or musical means and ends.”

Mr. Blind began his teaching career as an Associate Instructor in Piano at Indiana University, and later held the position of Assistant Professor of Piano at Heidelberg College in Ohio. In 1993 he moved to New Mexico where he established a private studio and collaborated with numerous faculty members in the University of New Mexico Music Department. He is a past president of the Albuquerque Music Teachers Association and the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico. In 2022 he was named the Southwest Teacher of Distinction by RCM, and in 2018 he was named the Teacher of the Year by the Professional Music Teachers Association of New Mexico.

His students have excelled in the RCM program and have repeatedly received both Southwest and National gold medals. He has also had numerous student winners in the PMTNM State Honors Auditions, MTNA New Mexico Junior and Senior Piano Competitions, Jackie McGehee Young Artist Concerto Competition, and Dennis Alexander Piano Competition.

He is the CEO and Director of the New Mexico School of Music, a community-based school with over 750 students.