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Robert
Cloutier,  Senior Piano Technician, is a
nationally recognized
Artist Technician specializing in the rebuilding and concert
preparation
of Steinway pianos. His background includes training at Steinway of New
York and London, more than two decades of concert experience throughout
the U.S. and abroad, and Senior Technician appointments at the
Manhattan
School of Music, Thornton School of Music, University of Oregon, and W.
Va. University. At CU Boulder he offers a piano tech class designed to
educate pianists in the nomenclature of the piano, and in performing
minor repairs. E-mail: Robert.Cloutier@colorado.edu
Dr. Andrew
Cooperstock is chair of the Keyboard Department.
He has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the major
capitals of Europe, Australia, Latin America, and in most of the fifty
states. He has performed on National Public Radio, Radio France, the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the BBC. With William Terwilliger
he has recorded the complete works for piano and violin by Aaron
Copland and performed them worldwide, receiving high praise from
Strings, The Strad, and American Record Guide. Dr. Cooperstock has also
performed with the Tak·cs and Ying Quartets, and cellist Andres Diaz,
and he is a founding member of Trio Contraste, which commissions
contemporary music for piano, violin, and clarinet. He has served as
juror for the New Orleans International, Music Teachers National
Association, National Federation of Music Clubs, and Concert Artists
Guild competitions. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the
Cincinnati and Peabody Conservatories, Dr. Cooperstock is currently a
member of the faculty at North Carolina's Brevard Music Center. Email: cooperstock@colorado.edu
Dr. 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.
E-mail: alejandro.cremaschi@colorado.edu
Elizabeth Farr  specializes in keyboard music of the
17th and 18th centuries. She performs on the harpsichord, organ, and
pedal-harpsichord. Dr. Farr holds degrees in organ performance from
Stetson University and The Juilliard School, and harpsichord
performance from the University of Michigan. Her teachers include Paul
Jenkins, Vernon de Tar, and Edward Parmentier. She has won a number of
concert organ and harpsichord competitions, including the Magnum Opus
Harpsichord Competition. She has concertized in the United States and
Europe, including several engagements at the famous 17th-century Arp
Schnitger organ in Norden, Germany. Dr. Farr teaches organ and
harpsichord and directs the Early Music Ensemble. Email: elizabeth.farr@stripe.colorado.edu
David
Korevaar,  Assistant Professor of Piano, has
presented recitals across the U.S. and internationally. A member of the
Prometheus Piano Quartet, Korevaar has performed as guest artist with
the Takács, Manhattan, and Colorado Quartets, among others. He is
active in the performance and recording of music by living composers
and frequently programs his own solo and chamber compositions. He
presents lecture-recitals on subjects including 18th-Century Viennese
appropriations of “Turkish” music, literary and biographical
connections with the piano cycles of Schumann, and the piano music of
Brahms. Among his many honors are top prizes from the University of
Maryland William Kapell International Piano Competition and the
Peabody-Mason Music Foundation, as well as a special prize from the
Robert Casadesus International Competition. He received his BM, MM, and
DMA degrees from The Juilliard School, where his teachers included Earl
Wild and Abbey Simon. Email: David.Korevaar@colorado.edu
Jeff
Jenkins , jazz piano. (see Jazz Studies)
 Doris Pridonoff
Lehnert, Professor of Piano, has been playing in
public as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber music
collaborator since her orchestral debut at the age of nine. She studied
on scholarship at the University of Southern California with Richard
Buhlig and the renowned Lillian Steuber and at The Juilliard School
with Rosina Lhevinne. Professor Lehnert has taught at the Hartford
Conservatory of Music and the University of Connecticut. She maintains
a busy schedule of teaching, consultation, and adjudication as well as
performing throughout the United States. With her husband, violinist
Oswald Lehnert, she has toured in the U.S. and abroad as part of the
Lehnert Duo. She received a citation for teaching excellence from
former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. In 1990 she was one of four
faculty members at the University of Colorado to be awarded the SOAR
Award for teaching excellence. Email: doris.lehnert@stripe.colorado.edu
 Pianist Margaret McDonald,
a native of Minnesota, joined the keyboard faculty of the University of
Colorado-Boulder's College of Music in the fall of 2004. She will help
in developing the College's new degree program in Collaborative Piano
and is active as a performer, coach and administrator. Ms. McDonald
received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano
performance from the University of Minnesota where she was a student of
Lydia Artymiw. She is completing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at
the University of California - Santa Barbara, where she worked with
Anne Epperson. Ms. McDonald attended the Music Academy of the West in
the summers of 2000 through 2002 as a fellowship student and also
received a fellowship to study at the prestigious Tanglewood Music
Center in the summer of 2003. In 2004, she was invited to the
Meadowmount School for Strings in New York as a staff accompanist.
Plans for 2005 include her return to the Music Teachers National
Association National Convention in Seattle as an official accompanist
for their annual competition. She also returns to the Music Academy of
the West for the 2005 season as associate faculty in the Collaborative
Piano program. E-mail: margaret.mcdonald@colorado.edu
 A native
of Montréal, Alexandra Nguyen is an
accomplished pianist who has appeared throughout the United States and
Canada, including performances at the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall (New
York, New York); the Dame Myra Hess series (Chicago); the 2000 Bartók
International Congress (Austin, Texas); and the Societe Pro Musica
Chamber Music Series (Montréal, Canada). She is a founding member of
two active chamber ensembles, Trio Encantar with oboist Deirdre
Chadwick and bassoonist Peter Kolkay, with whom she also appears
regularly in recital; and Duo Solaris, with pianist Zarina
Melik-Stepanova. Dr. Nguyen's honors include the John Newmark Prize at
the Prix d'Europe Competition, the Barr Award and the Brooks Smith
Fellowship, both at the Eastman School of Music. Awarded the first
Performer’s Certificate in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the
Eastman School, Dr. Nguyen was the first recipient of the C. Eschenbach
Award given for outstanding performance in a vocal recital, and was a
three-time winner of the Excellence in Accompanying Award.
Dr. Nguyen completed her graduate degrees in Piano Accompanying and
Chamber Music under the guidance of Jean Barr at the Eastman School,
and has studied with pedagogues such as Douglas Humpherys, Anne
Epperson, Madeleine Bélanger and Suzanne Goyette. She holds a Bachelor
of Science degree from McGill University and a Premier Prix from the
Conservatoire de musique du Québec a Montréal. Dr. Nguyen was formerly
the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the Eastman School of Music,
where she also coached chamber music, coordinated the Colloquium
series, and taught 20th century piano literature. Prior appointments
include Administrative Director of the Montréal Chamber Music Festival
and Director of Career Services at the Eastman School. As Director of
Career Services, Dr. Nguyen participated in the first international
symposium on career issues in music, The Working Musician, held in
London, England in 2005. She also served as a panelist at both the
National Association of Schools of Music 2005 Annual Meeting and the
2005 College Music Society Annual Conference. Dr. Nguyen is the
Associate Artistic Director of Eastman’s Young Artists International
Piano Competition, and is a member of the Collaborative Committee for
the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy as well as the Board of
Directors of the International Guitar Institute. E-mail:
alexandra.nguyen@colorado.edu
Daniel Sher,  Dean and Professor of Piano, received
his bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, the master’s
degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Martin Canin
and Rosina Lhevinne, and the EdD in piano pedagogy from the Teachers
College of Columbia University. While on the faculty at the School of
Music at Louisiana State University, he appeared in chamber music and
solo recitals in all of the southeastern states, in Europe, and in
Central and South America. He also performed in duo piano recitals with
his wife Boyce Reid Sher, including a debut recital at Alice Tully Hall
at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Dr. Sher served as Dean of the
School of Music at LSU from 1984 to 1993. Dr. Sher has served as Chair
of the Commission on Accreditation and the Nominating Committee for
NASM. He is immediate past president and a member of the board of
regents for Pi Kappa Lambda, the national honor society for music. He
began his appointment as Dean of the College in July 1993. Email: Daniel.Sher@colorado.edu
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