Lydia Madrick has over 40 years of piano teaching experience with all ages.  She has degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music where she majored in Piano Performance.  As a performer she has soloed, accompanied, and played chamber music.  She has been in Santa Fe for 16 years where she has been keyboard player for the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, accompanist for the Zia Singers, SF Symphony Chorus, Highlands University Concert Choir, and various other choruses and chamber groups.  She is Music Director of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe and is the accompanist for Temple Beth Shalom High Holidays Choir.  She has accompanied students at Santa Fe Talent Education for their Book Recitals and has been seen trying to learn the viola with SFTE.  In her spare time, she accompanies singers and various instrumentalists and rides her Paso Fino horses as often as she can.  She lives with her husband, Allen, two dogs, and 13 horses near Eldorado.  She is totally excited to be joining her friends at SFTE.