Joyce Grill


Joyce Grill is an American composer, teacher, and conductor.

Biography

Grill graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she completed a BM in Music in 1958. She received training at the Fountainebleau School of Fine Arts in France, where she studied piano with Robert and Jean Casadesus and theory and composition with Nadia Boulanger.
She taught piano, music appreciation, and accompanying classes at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse from 1974–1999 where she wrote the UW–La Crosse Fight Song.
She founded the La Crosse Area Music Teachers Association in 1980. Her first book Accompanying Basics was published in 1987 by KJOS. In 2006 she was named a MTNA Foundation Fellow. In 2010 she was the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association Commissioned Composer.
She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota and has held offices in both the Wisconsin State Music Teachers Association and the National Music Teachers Association.

Works