Alexis Merchant

Alexis Merchant is entering her eighth year teaching at Waynesburg University. Merchant is from Washington, Pennsylvania, an alumni of Trinity High School. She began playing the piano at age five, her great grandmother being her first piano teacher. Merchant found her true love for music when she was chosen to attend the Westminster Choir College of Rider University’s high school summer piano camp in Princeton, New Jersey, led by nationally recognized Professor of Piano Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield.

Merchant graduated cum laude from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, receiving her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance. At Capital, she studied under Steinway artist Dr. Tianshu Wang and Professor Seymour Fink. Merchant began teaching piano lessons in the Bexley area during her undergraduate studies. She holds her Master’s of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Ohio University. At Ohio University, Merchant studied under Dr. Christopher Fisher and was a graduate assistant, teaching multiple levels of group piano classes to undergraduate music majors. She also played for the Ohio University Wind Symphony and taught piano lessons through the Athens Community Music School.

Today, in addition to teaching at Waynesburg University, Merchant has a thriving piano studio in Washington, Pennsylvania, teaching students of all ages. When she is not teaching music, she enjoys spending time with her husband and children, being with her TOV church family, and visiting the coffee shop!

B.M. Capital University; M.M. Ohio University