Amy Aberg McLelland is an award-winning pianist whose playing has been described as "ravishing ....with a wonderful variety of tone colors and nuance of interpretation."
Performing in both solo and collaborative recitals, she has appeared on Public Television and Public Radio. as a soloist with symphonies and other large chamber groups. 
In demand as a piano accompanist, McLelland has served as an official MTNA accompanist and as accompanist for music majors and music professors at numerous institutions such as the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, University of Southern Mississippi, William Carey College, Mississippi College, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, Alabama School of Fine Arts, choral festivals, symphony auditions, and other special events.
McLelland holds bachelor and master degrees in piano performance from Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. A native of Huntsville, Alabama, she graduated from Randolph School and also studied at North Carolina School of the Performing Arts. Certified in the healthy and ergonomically correct Taubman Approach to piano playing, McLelland has coached extensively with Edna Golandsky and John Bloomfield in New York City. Her piano scholarships in college and graduate school involved accompanying music majors and professors as well as providing piano music for receptions and special events, playing in ensembles, jazz band, orchestras, accompanying vocal literature classes, auditions, and more. Other awards and scholarships include winner, MTNA Collegiate Artist Competition (state, and runner-up to national), winner HSO Young Artist Competition, AMTA State Winners Circle, recipient of the Louise McAllister Scholarship, the Luke A. and Mary M. Wood Scholarship, the Hindman Foundation Fellowship, and a MTNA Teacher Enrichment Grant.
Trained as a classical pianist, reviewers hail her as an expert on Mozart, and indeed she was chosen among 100s of pianists to perform for Imogen Cooper (featured on the soundtrack for the movie Amadeus) in Spivey Hall. However, McLelland enjoys playing all styles of music, from Blues improv, to Bruce Hornsby, Chopin to Copland, Rachmaninoff to Bartok and Brahms, and her favorite composers, Hindemith and J.S. Bach. As a composer, McLelland enjoys creating music in a wide range of musical styles. She has composed music for movies, musicals, piano trio, jazz ensembles, piano solo, vocal ensembles, solo voice and chamber choirs, piano and violin, woodwinds, percussion, sacred choral anthems, harpsichord, and pipe organ. Her graded-level piano method for younger students, 88 Keys to Mastering the Piano is unique in its focus on healthy, ergonomic technic and the Taubman Approach.
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