About the Creator of PianoFonics

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About the Creator of PianoFonics^®

Carolyn Inabinet is the owner/director and primary instructor at Music Works Academy, Ltd., a private music school in Phoenix, Arizona offering piano, guitar, voice and violin. Ms. Inabinet was a 1968 Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Tennessee with a major in piano and French. In addition, she has done extensive graduate work at both the University of Tennessee and Arizona State University in early childhood music, instructional design and technology, and music history as well as graduate study in piano and classical organ. She is co-author of Practice and Progress (1992) and The FJH Studio Organizer (2002).

Ms. Inabinet is a member of Phoenix Music Teachers Association (PMTA), Arizona State Music Teachers Association (ASMTA), Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA), and the National Guild of Piano Teachers (NGPT). She began teaching Kindermusik in 1980 and holds Kindermusik and MusikGarten teaching certification in all curricula as well as Levels I and II certification in Orff/Schulwerke. Ms. Inabinet completed certification with Harmony Road Music Course in 2006.

A nationally certified teacher (NCTM) with Music Teachers’ National Association, Ms. Inabinet has received permanent professional certification and has been a speaker at four national conventions. In 1988 and 89, she was a presenter at the first music technology symposiums held by MTNA. In 1996, her article “Beyond Piano Instruction: A Decade of Evolution and Revolution” appeared in The American Music Teacher, the national MTNA journal. This article addressed a nationwide problem with independent music teachers...zoning. In her 1996 MTNA National presentation, she shared her experiences and knowledge gained during a five-year zoning battle and subsequent resolution with the City of Phoenix. In 2003, Ms. Inabinet was a presenter in the MTNA National Conference Poster Session with PianoFonics^®, resource materials for group and private instruction.

In addition, Ms. Inabinet is the author of The Cranial Connection, an introductory handbook to cranial osteopathy. She has received recognition from the American Academy of Osteopathy as well as the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association for her contribution to manipulative osteopathic literature.