Marie Alberti, pianist, keyboardist, and pipe organist, (theater and classical) comes from a large musical family near Binghamton New York, and received her first musical education from her mother, Lily Salisbury, when she started playing by ear at the age of two years and ten months. Her public school music teachers were the very special Riemann, Bowman, McGinnley and Nobel at Windsor Consolidated School in Windsor, New York. (New York's largest combined elementary junior high and high school)

Zion Bible College in Providence, R. I. and Central Bible College in Springfield, MO. greatly contributed to her musical growth and development, completing her pipe organ studies with Dr. James Evans at the Conservatory of Music at Kansas City, MO. Her musical education has never ended, always attending and participating in professional workshops and conventions. She has lived in Springfield MO. for many years as an educator, entertainer-performer, published composer-arranger and because of the geographically central location of Springfield, has played many national shows and conventions.

Locally, in Springfield, she has played a variety of assignments including programs for Community Concerts, from Bach to Broadway tunes.

Also, she has played a Miss Missouri wedding in Eureka Springs, AK, the Broadway Show, Pipin, with Little Theater, presidential and gubernatorial receptions and theater organ for nearly 200 shows with the world famous Radio City Music Hall, ROCKETTES. She arranged and performed the music for the stage production World Premier of I WILL SING LIFE (from the book of the same name) as music arranger/director, at the Vandervort Theater in Springfield.

The playwright was Sandy Asher of Drury University and director, George Cron of New York. (The book was written about a camp built by Paul Newman, for terminally ill children.) Five performances were given.

Sacred music has always played an important role all through Marie's musical career. Being raised in a Christian family laid the foundation for much of her musical activity. Thru the years she has held several church musician posts, in various faiths and denominations, her most recent being that of church musician for six years at Antioch United Methodist Church in Springfield.

She assisted in setting up the music department and acted as music technician and arranger at the World Headquarters for the Assemblies of God Gospel Publishing House. She is the cofounder of the professional organization, SPRINGFIELD PIANO TEACHERS FORUM, which is now twenty years old, and still carrying a strong membership and actively helping independent teachers bridge the gap between secondary and collegiate levels.

Marie's musical instrument promotional sales has taken her to Europe seven times. Her late husband got to accompany her on these trips. As a high school art major, it was exciting to visit the Louve in Paris and Rome and Florence, etc., where much original art was seen.

Even though music has been her main career, volunteer work has been important and remains high on her list, sharing her talents with deserving organizations whenever possible, the most recent being eight continuous hours on the benches of the Conn theater organ and Steinway grand piano for the annual Ronald MacDonald House Christmas Home Tour!

Marie played the St. Louis Centennial Banquet for the 1999 National Federation of Music Clubs Convention. She has been flown from Gatlinburg to Bangor, from New York to LA for weddings and receptions of all kinds. She played regularly, at the Holiday Inn, University Plaza Hotel, in Springfield, for several years, for their Sunday brunch.

Most of her time is taken up with her thirty to forty private students: teaching, recitals, talent shows and competitions.

Folk instruments are a special interest of which her classically treated 'musical saw' is her audiences' favorite. This is a tradition handed down from three older sisters, who played them in trios all over New York State and two of them on the TV show, Good Morning America, accompanied on the piano by their eighty-two year old mother.

Marie and her late husband, Tom, have two daughters, Donna and Linda, who continue the musical tradition on French Horn and flute.

Marie humorously, refers to herself as a 'musical spastic' to which her sister, Beth, knowingly smiles and says, "By now you should be saying, MUSICAL ENTREPRENEUR!"

Information re: Marie J. Salisbury Alberti as listed in Marquis Who's Who in America.