JOAN STEIN, Pianist, has won critical acclaim in the United States and Europe for her performance in solo and chamber music recitals with the Walden Trio and members of the New York Philharmonic, as well in the "Betty Rosenblum-Joan Stein Duo".

Her concert venues include the Alte Oper, Frankfurt, West Germany; Town Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, Lincoln Center, Cooper Union, and the New School, New York; the National Gallery and the Phillips Gallery, Washington, D. C.; and at numerous colleges and universities, including Bennington, Dickinson and Thiel Colleges, several New York State Universities, and Rutgers, Drew and Fairleigh Dickinson Universities.

As Music Associate for the NBC-TV "Your Show of Shows", Ms. Stein has performed with Imogene Coca, Robert Merrill, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner and Rise Stevens, and has played on United Artists Cable TV.

Concert broadcasts include West German National Radio, Robert Sherman's "The Listening Room", over WQXR N.Y. Times radio, and the New York and New Jersey Educational Radio Networks.  She can be heard on Vanguard, Orion and Opus One recordings.

Ms. Stein has been cited by the Governor of New Jersey for her contribution to the cultural life of that state, and in conjunction with the Walden Trio, for performing and commissioning works by New Jersey, and in particular, women composers through a grant from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ms. Stein has been associated with such contemporary American Composers as Ann Callaway, Ezra Laderman, Vivian Fine, Ruth Schonthal, Howard Swanson, Roger Sessions and Herbert Haufrecht.

Joan Stein is a founding member of Teaneck Artists Perform (TAP) chamber music group.  A graduate of the Juilliard School, she studied with Mme. Rosina Lhevinne, Miescyslaw Munz and Edward Steuermann.