Dr. Rosângela Sebba

Dr. Rosângela Yazbec Sebba is Professor of Piano at Mississippi State University, where she coordinates the piano area and the Community Music School. She is proud to have initiated the All-Steinway School, a 12-year initiative completed in 2024. She teaches applied lessons, piano literature, and theory. Her college and pre-college students have received numerous awards and honors for their performances and presentations in regional, national, and international competitions and conferences. 

In demand as a clinician and adjudicator, she regularly presents workshops and lecture-recitals on repertoire and pedagogy throughout the country. She has also served as a guest artist and clinician for various associations in the US and abroad.

Her performances encompass solo, chamber music, one piano four-hands, and two pianos four-hands repertoire. Her CD album, Eight Sonatinas and the Sonata for Piano Solo by M. Camargo Guarnieri, was released in 2010 as the first and only recording of these works. The album has been featured on David Dubal’s classical piano programs: The Piano Matters on WWFM, Reflections from the Keyboard on WQXR, both New York City radio stations, and his lecture at the Cervantes Institute.

As a committed proponent of contemporary music, in 2017, Dr. Sebba released a chamber music CD on the Centaur Label - Millennia Musicae, featuring works by Stravinsky, Bill Douglas, and the premiere of a trio for piano, bassoon, and clarinet, as well as a quartet for piano, bassoon, clarinet, and violin by Mississippian composer Shandy Phillips. In addition to being the principal pianist of the Starkville/MSU Symphony Orchestra, she has been a soloist with other orchestras in Brazil and the United States, performing a wide repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Camargo Guarnieri and Saint-Saëns.

Currently, she is a reviewer for the American Music Teacher Magazine and has published arrangements of Brazilian music for various instruments.

As a sought-after chamber musician, she has collaborated in recitals and masterclasses with renowned artists and has given recitals, masterclasses, lectures, and lecture-recitals across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. She has participated in national and international conferences such as the College Music Society, International Villa-Lobos Conference, London International Piano Symposium, LIII Música en Compostela, International Double Reed Society, and National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors.

Dr. Sebba is an active member of local and state music teacher organizations, currently serving as the Golden Triangle Music Forum Secretary, District Audition Chair, and VP for Pre-College Evaluations for the Mississippi Music Teachers Association. She is also a member of several national and international associations, including the Music Teachers National Association, College Music Society, CARAVELAS - Núcleo de Estudos da História da Música Luso-Brasileira, National Federation of Music Clubs, World Piano Teachers Association, and National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors.

She is currently in the Mississippi Arts Commission Artist Roster and was selected as a Fellow in 2015. For more information, please go to her website: https://www.rosangelayazbecsebba.com/

In 2013 Rosângela was recognized as a Steinway Artist, in 2022 and 2023 she received the Steinway Teacher of the Year and in 2023 she was inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teachers Hall of Fame as a member of the hall’s fifth induction class. Also, in 2023 she received the Mississippi Music Teachers Association Outstanding Teacher Award and in 2024 she was nominated the Mississippi representative for the 2025 Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Teacher of the Year Award. In 2024 Dr. Sebba was named a Mississippi State John Grisham Master Teacher.