Books and Educational Resources

Valery Lloyd-Watts is an acclaimed author of many valuable educational resources.

The Bigler~Lloyd-Watts More Than Music Piano Pedagogy, (working title Mastering the Piano) to be published by Alfred Publishing Company, includes music scores, recordings, lesson plans, teacher's manual, and their Scramble Game. This powerful and effective program synthesizing the Suzuki, Conservatory and traditional methods was released in 2004.

With years of teaching and training experience, she and Carole Bigler wrote Studying Suzuki Piano: More Than Music in 1980, which has been recognized as the "Bible" of Suzuki piano training, available through Warner Brothers. It has been translated into Japanese, Korean and Russian, with a foreword by Dr. Suzuki.

In 1995, Alfred Company published the duo's second book, Ornamentation, A Question and Answer Manual, on how to realize ornaments from all eras of music. Additionally, they have edited Everybody's Perfect Masterpieces, Recital Winners, Recital Gems, and J.S. Bach's Adagio on a Theme by Marcello.

In 1999, she jointly published with Carole L. Bigler Seven Principles of Effective Piano Teaching, a manual for piano teachers, as well as Lesson Plans for:

• Master Class Series I (recording released as A Concert of Masterpieces)
• Master Class Series II (recording released as A Second Concert of Masterpieces)
• MusiCoach for Recital Winners and Recital Gems
• Lesson Plans for Applause! Book 1