Alejandro Cremaschi

Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy

Email: alejandro.cremaschi@colorado.edu
Website: http://www.alejandrocremaschi.com
Office Location: Room C194, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-492-6510
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

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 Dora De Marinis, Nancy Roldan and Lydia Artymiw.  He has been a soloist with the orchestras of the Universidad de Cuyo, Universidad de Tucuman, 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. A specialist in the areas of Latin American repertoire, group piano, cooperative learning, and technology, Dr. Cremaschi has authored computer tools to aid the development of reading and performance skills at the piano, and is currently involved in experimental research on the acquisition of sightreading skills with the aid of technology. He has been a presenter at national and international conferences such as the Music Teachers National Association annual conventions from 2002 to 2007, and the International Society for Music Education in 2002 and 2006. He has published articles in the European Piano Teachers Association magazine, the Piano Pedagogy Forum online journal and the Keyboard Companion magazine. His software reviews have appeared in the American Music Teacher magazine. Mr. Cremaschi is the author of Creative Piano and Keyboard, a technology-based class piano textbook for non-music majors, published in 2003 (currently under revisions). Dr. Cremaschi is also in demand as a specialist on Latin American piano music. Between 1996 and 2002, he was a member of the Argentine Foundation "Ostinato," 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. He has offered world premieres of solo and chamber works by the Argentine composer Luis Jorge Gonzalez, and a piano concerto by composer Guillermo Silveira. Dr. Cremaschi teaches piano pedagogy, applied piano, class piano and keyboard harmony, and coordinates the class piano area at CU.

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