Area piano students will participate in the National Guild Auditions on May 14 and 15, at the Austin Public Library, and will be judged by musician, teacher and composer Mary Hauber, OSF, a Dubuque Franciscan.

Hauber has taught piano for over 50 years. She is a graduate of Briar Cliff College and graduated with a masters degree in piano pedagogy from East Texas State University.

Hauber began composing piano solos as a teenager and presently has music published with Alfred Music Publishing Co. Her study of music literature started at the age of seven, but her real love of piano came when she started teaching and sharing her love for music with children and adults.

She lives in Dubuque, Iowa.