The Piano Department offers comprehensive professional training to talented performers. Its mission is to assist, guide, and encourage students in achieving the highest artistic and intellectual standard of which they are capable. Through individual instruction, ensemble coaching, and musicianship classes, the faculty strives to promote understanding while simultaneously encouraging original and creative thought. Students receive thorough preparation for careers as soloists, chamber musicians, accompanists, and teachers.

Faculty

John Ellis (Chair, pedagogy and performance)

Kelley Benson (pedagogy)
Katherine Collier (performance, collaborative piano)
Arthur Greene (performance)
Robert Grijalva (Director of Piano Technology)

Christopher Harding (performance, chamber music)
Martin E. Katz (Artur Schnabel Collegiate Professor of Music,
collaborative piano, voice literature)
 Louis Nagel (performance, piano literature, chamber music, Director of Outreach in the Performing Arts))
Edward Parmentier (harpsichord, early music)

Logan Skelton (performance)
   

Associated Faculty

 
Penelope Crawford (fortepiano)

 
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