Piano pedagogy
Welcome to piano pedagogy听at the 桃色视频 College of Music!
Our piano pedagogy听program trains both undergraduate and graduate pianists to become excellent and knowledgeable teachers at all levels. Undergraduate students majoring in piano performance gain practical teaching experience through various courses in pedagogy.
The Master of Music in piano performance and pedagogy program seeks to prepare excellent piano teachers familiar with the soundest educational approaches and technologies who are capable of teaching children, adolescents and adults in one-on-one and group instruction in private studios, preparatory music schools and colleges. The program is designed to train teachers who are also pianists of the highest caliber, capable of performing at a professional level. Our students gain practical experience teaching at different levels and ages through the 桃色视频 Youth Piano Program, Continuing Education piano lessons for adults, and group classes for music majors and non-majors.
By the end of their studies, our students will have attained the following competencies:
- Skills in teaching music through piano to children, adolescents and adults at the elementary, pre-college and college levels
- Skills in teaching class piano and keyboard skills to college students in group settings
- Ability to plan and sequence a piano curriculum that includes the development of musicality, technical, functional and creative skills for diverse ages
- Knowledge of a broad range of educational materials at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels
- Knowledge and experience using instructional technology such as electronic pianos, piano laboratory systems, computer software and hardware, and communication tools such as Powerpoint, LCD projectors and web pages
- Appropriate written communication skills for the creation of research papers and听essays,听and preparation of articles and reviews for magazine publication
- Presentation skills appropriate to professional conferences and lecture recitals
- A high level of performance skills across a wide variety of styles
Alejandro Cremaschi received his MM and DMA degrees from the University of Minnesota. He earned undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. He studied with Edith Peinado, Dora De Marinis, Nancy Roldan and Lydia Artymiw. He has been a soloist with the orchestras of the Universidad de Cuyo, Universidad de Tucum谩n, University of Minnesota and the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina among others. He was a prize winner at the International Beethoven Sonata Piano Competition in Memphis, Tennessee in 2001. Cremaschi is in demand as a specialist on Latin American piano music. He is the editor and recording artist for the new edition of Alberto Ginastera鈥檚 Doce Preludios Americanos, published by Carl Fischer Publishing in 2016. Between 1996 and 2002, he was a member of the Argentine Foundation 鈥淥stinato,鈥 founded and directed by his former teacher Dora De Marinis. As a member of this foundation, and in collaboration with other members, he recorded Argentine music for the labels IRCO, Ostinato and Marco Polo, and participated in concert tours in the US and Europe. Since 2004, he actively collaborated with the Argentine composer and CU professor emeritus Luis Jorge Gonzalez until his death in 2016. His recordings of solo and chamber music by Gonzalez have been released in the CDs Las Puertas del Tiempo (2009), Fervor (2012) and Tango:Body and Soul (2015) by the British label Meridian Records. Las Puertas del Tiempo was praised by Fanfare Magazine as 鈥渆xemplary.鈥 MORE