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They also recorded a number of albums of sacred and classical music which were nationally distributed. They returned many times as concert artists to Italy, Albania, and Russia as a duo and solo pianist. Dana Talley travelled throughout the United States as concert artists, giving Master Classes in colleges and also performing with symphony orchestras and as soloists in over 2000 community concerts. Upon playing for the Metropolitan Opera auditions, she also received a National Opera Institute grant to study Opera Coaching at The Metropolitan Opera, where she worked with Joan Dornemann as an Apprentice Coach and studied, as well, with Alberta Masiello and Martin Katz. She emphasizes the importance of this aspect of a musician's career, as it took her to Italy, where she played for 17 major opera festivals, was featured on RAI, and accompanied in the private studio of Mario Del Monaco and other great artists, also performing throughout the country as a collaborative artist with her husband, Dr. Very important to a developing musician is the opportunity to play collaborative piano, and even prior to high school, Sue was performing as accompanist in churches and in the schools, both for singers and instrumentalists. She continued her postgraduate studies in New York City with Joseph Raieff (The Juilliard School). She received her MA in Piano Performance from Western Washington University under the tutelage of John McIntyre. Immediately after high school, she studied at the Music Academy of the West with Reginald Stewart. Erno Daniel (faculty at USC and UCSB) at Whitworth College, with Margaret Saunders Ott, and in Los Angeles, with Carol Rosenberger (faculty at USC). For the first twenty years of lessons, she studied under great piano teachers on the West Coast: in Portland, Karleen Huddleston (faculty at George Fox University), in Santa Barbara, California, Miss Galina Michniuk and both Dr. Sue Lane Talley studied piano from the age of five, and from the age of six, was performing in recitals she won her first piano competition at the age of eight, and debuted with the Santa Barbara Symphony in Mendelssohn's G-minor Concerto at 16.