Molly Turner

Molly Turner is a pianist, conductor, and composer. She is an enthusiastic piano teacher for all genres: classical, jazz, pop, sing and play, and can teach any song you have an audio link to! She is a patient teacher and interested in helping each student achieve their unique learning and artistic goals.  In addition to piano, she teaches conducting, score study, music theory, composition, and improvisation. As a conductor,  she has served as Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony, and. Salonen Fellow at the San Francisco Symphony.  At New World Symphony, she leads the orchestra in subscription, family, education, and holiday concerts.  Recent highlights are with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Symphonies for Schools, Minnesota Orchestra's Young Person Concerts, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group Noon to Midnight, and New York Philharmonic as cover conductor. Recently, she has conducted the Orchestre de Paris, at Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music, Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, Juilliard Orchestra, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Primrose International Viola Competition, Colburn Orchestra, and Eastern Festival Orchestra.

She was a Community Engagement Fellow at Juilliard where she taught K-8 classrooms in aesthetic group music lessons and also played violin and piano for classrooms. She maintains a regular studio of piano, violin, and composition students. She studied with David Robertson at The Juilliard School for her masters degree in conducting and received a bachelor in music composition from Rice University. She studied piano privately all four years at Rice University and took a keyboard skills class each semester at Juilliard. She has played piano since the age of 6 and violin since the age of 10. With a background in music composition, she regularly arranges songs for beginners, integrates improvisation into lessons, and seeks to help students play the music they are interested in!  Ear training, music theory, and improvisation games are often integrated in lessons when students are interested!