Teaching

Professorships:
La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore
San Francisco State University, California
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia
Taiwan National Academy of Arts
Xinjiang College of the Arts, China
Xinjiang Normal University, China
Yining University, China

Faculty positions held:
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Extension, California
Faculty member, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, California
Lecturer and Fellow, Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz

Adjudication and student activity:
William Corbett-Jones has participated frequently as a jury member in local and international competitions, and some of his students have been prizewinners in international competition.

Many of his students have gone on to careers in music:

The late Calvin Simmons became conductor of the Oakland Symphony in California.

John Lo Piccolo became conductor of the Helena, Montana Symphony and the Idaho Falls Symphony.

Philip Kelsey occupies a high administrative position at the Seattle Opera.

Robert Schwartz (D.M.A. Juilliard) concertizes widely and teaches piano at Skyline College.

Inara Morgenstern is a member of the SFSU School of Music and Dance faculty.

Three of his students are on the faculty of the Community Music Center in San Francisco.

Recently, three students have completed doctoral programs at Peabody, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Iowa.

Two of his students, Elenor Barcsak and Kwei-Ling Pomerleau, have served as president of the Marin County Music Teachers Association.

Donna S. Kline has written an acclaimed biography of America’s first native-born famous female concert pianist, Olga Samaroff.

Allen Fuller is director of games at Harrah’s Club in Reno, and concertizes in the Nevada area and also in Germany.

Richard Olsen, in addition to being a laureate at several national and international piano competitions, is also a distinguished Vice President of Transamerica Corporation, and trustee of many institutions including the San Francisco Conservatory, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco

Performances and the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School Eye Research Foundation.

Lynn Inglese is pianist for the San Francisco Ballet.

Jefferson Packer has been accompanist for the Baroque Philharmonic and currently is the manager of the San Francisco Youth Orchestra.

Gary Leuenberger is producer of Enchanter Music Productions and also a faculty member at San Francisco State University.

Several others are actively teaching and performing in the greater Bay Area, including Elliott Dunlap, Janet McLain, Vanessa Polgar, Eric and Catherine Thompson, and William Kenville.