Fay Adams

Fay Swadley Adams, Professor Emeritus, has retired after forty-four years of service to the University of Tennessee School of Music. While at the university she served as the Coordinator of the Keyboard Area and taught piano, piano pedagogy and Suzuki pedagogy. Her awards include: YWCA Outstanding Woman in the Arts; Chancellor's Citation for Service to the University of Tennessee; first recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in the UT School of Music; Volunteer Spirit Award; Music Teachers National Association Foundation Fellow; TMTA Distinguished Service Award; Past Director of MTNA Southern Division; MTNA Board of Directors; MTNA Senior Performance Competitions Coordinator and the 2016 MTNA National Teacher of the Year. She is a registered Suzuki Piano Teacher Trainer, former member of the SAA Board of Directors and former member of the SAA Piano Review Committee. She has served as a Suzuki piano clinician at workshops across the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.