Bethany Cencer, harpsichordist, is a doctoral student at SUNY Stony Brook double-majoring in harpsichord and musicology/theory. She regularly performs with the Stony Brook Baroque Players under Arthur Haas. Ms. Cencer received her BM in early-music musicology and MM in keyboard-instrument performance from the University of Michigan, where she studied harpsichord with Ed Parmentier, fortepiano with Penelope Crawford, and piano with Douglas Humphreys and Katherine Collier. She has served as both president and publicity chair of the nonprofit Ann Arbor Academy of Early Music. Ms. Cencer is a passionate teacher as well as performer. Her article "The music teacher as coach...: empowering students to realize their inner potential" was recently published in American Music Teacher magazine.