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Department of Piano

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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

Christopher Harding (Chair, performance, chamber music)

Kelley Benson (pedagogy)

Amy I. Cheng (chamber music)

Katherine Collier (performance, collaborative piano)

John Ellis (Associate Dean for
Administration; pedagogy and performance)

Arthur Greene (performance)

 

Associated Faculty

Penelope Crawford (fortepiano)

Robert Grijalva (piano technology)

Martin E. Katz (collaborative piano, voice literature)

Louis Nagel (performance, piano literature, chamber music)

Logan Skelton (performance)

Edward Parmentier (harpsichord, early music)

news

Yihua Eva Cao
Concerts Featuring Concerto Competition Winners to Begin

Concerto Competition winner Yihua Eva Cao performs Piano Concerto no. 2 by Camille Saint-Saëns with the UPO on February 6. more

SMTD logo for newsWinners of Annual Concerto Competition Announced

Following two days of intense competition at Hill Auditorium, the winners of the annual School of Music, Theatre & Dance Concerto Competition have been announced.  more

events

SMTD logo for eventThird Dissertation Recital: Stijn De Cock, piano

Sunday, May 26 - 5:00pm
Walgreen Drama Center, Stamps Auditorium
Free - no tickets required
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Zhu Zhu, BM Performance 2010
Dmitri Vorobiev, DMA 2007, with violinist Daphna Raz, BM 2010Professor Christopher Harding and Sun Ah Lee, DMA Performance 2010Nico DeVilliers, MM 2009 with vocalist Seth Carico, MM 2007Professor Martin Katz with Joel Ayau, DMA Collaborative Piano 2010SiYi Fang, BM Performance 2011Professor Louis Nagel with Dylan Perez, Arts and Scholars Degree candidate 2012
“I take pride in our piano faculty for their engaging attitude and relentless passion not only in the teaching of a lesson but even outside the class, being willing to guide us, share with us their life-long experience as an illuminating source and significant part of maturing one’s musicianship....Michigan is where artistry takes flight!”
Tai-Hsuan (Kathy) Lee, MM 2012

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