marilyn lazare
Piano. CMS Piano Dept. Lead Faculty and Senior Faculty Advisor
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
- Hans Christian Anderson
Marilyn Stewart Lazare has been a member of the CMS faculty since 1989, and currently serves as the Lead Faculty member of the Piano Department as well as our Senior Faculty Advisor. Marilyn did her undergraduate work at the Paris National Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Nadia Boulanger, Annette Dieudonne and Germaine Pinault. She also holds master’s degrees from Harvard University (Romance Language and Literature) and Brigham Young University (Musicology).
Prior to joining the CMS faculty, Marilyn taught at Mount Ida College, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Longy School of Music. She also serves as a church organist. "Madame Lazare" is also a member of the faculty at Quinnipiac University, where she is an Associate Professor of French.
"The joy of playing the piano, for me, is to find the tonality produced by the keys, alone or in combination. I ask students to think of a color, a flavor, or the texture of a fabric when they play a phrase, and to allow the music to speak to them."