Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Adcock, III

William Kenan Endowment

Mitchell’s Piano Gallery

Moravian Music Foundation

Myron D. Brown, a native of Birmingham, AL, is an acclaimed pianist and Chair of the Department of Music at Winston-Salem State University. He has been a recurring guest artist at the Colour of Music Festival and is also a champion of multi-piano literature, where he has been featured each year in the Roomful of Pianos showcase at the NAMM Show.
Equally as distinguished in gospel music as he is with classical repertoire, he serves as Minister of Music for the Western North Carolina Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America. Dr. Brown holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati. He remains a prominent performer, adjudicator, and leader within the North Carolina arts community.

Barbara Lister-Sink, Ed.D., an internationally acclaimed pianist and acknowledged global leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique, has extremely close ties to the Moravian community and to music at Salem College. Her ancestors came to North Carolina with Moravian settlers in 1753, her great-aunt, Genie Fitzgerald, graduated with a degree in music from Salem College in 1911, and she received her early piano training from Salem College faculty member Margaret Mueller and Dean Clemens Sandresky.
The year 2026 marks her 40th year at Salem College, where she has served as Dean or Director of the School of Music for 16 years, following in the footsteps of Deans Vardell and Sandresky. She is a graduate of Smith College and the Utrecht Conservatory and holds an Ed.D. from Columbia University. A Steinway Artist since 1977, Lister-Sink has performed and recorded as a soloist and with many of the world’s most distinguished musicians throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. Her DVD, Freeing the Caged Bird: Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique, won the 2002 MTNA–Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award.
Lister-Sink’s international leadership in pianists’ health has also led to a 2016 TEDx talk and invitations to present at conferences, symposia, and lecture series at medical research institutions, including Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Duke University School of Medicine.

Dreama Lovitt currently serves as the Director of Traditional Music and Organist at West Market Street UMC, Greensboro, is the Visiting Director of Choral Activities at Salem College, Winston-Salem, and privately teaches piano and organ. She holds a BM Degree from the University of Richmond, VA, where she studied organ with Suzanne Bunting and Suzanne Riehl and piano with Richard Becker. She holds a MM Degree in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, where she studied organ with Swedish organist Hans Davidsson and keyboard technique with Ulrika Davidsson, particularly for use with the clavichord and organ. She has sought additional input from international organists Hans Fagius, Daniel Roth, and others, and has performed in the US, Italy, Sweden, and France. In addition, she has pursued coursework in Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the US and at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Timothy Olsen, as Kenan Professor of Organ at UNC School of the Arts and Associate Professor of Organ at Salem College, enjoys working with a wide range of students—from those just beginning their study at the organ to high level graduate students. Dr. Olsen’s desire to expose the organ and its repertoire has led him to collaborate with local colleagues organizing an annual “Sounds of the Summer” organ recital series in Winston-Salem, NC, as well as an annual Salem Bach Festival for which he plays organ and harpsichord. Dr. Olsen is a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN (BM) and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY (MM, DMA). He currently resides in Pfafftown, NC with his wife, three boys, and their Chihuahua, Milo Bjørn.