The Piano and Its Perspectives
Once a month Mississippi State University in partnership with Brazil, Portugal and Colombia presents a podcast/interview. This Friday, April 28, our broadcast starts at 3PM Mississippi, 3PM Colombia and New York, 5PM Brazil and 8PM Portugal. You can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqNdkCI8xA8
The Piano and Its Perspectives is a program of the School of Music, Digital Department and Cultural Office of the Federal University of Goiás, Mississippi State University and Universidad del Atlántico - Colombia, with support from the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal, Center for Studies in Sociology and Musical Aesthetics of the New University of Lisbon, Center for Brazilian Studies, Rádio Universitária and Rádio Brasil Central FM. Andréa Luísa Teixeira (coordination), Pablo Lisboa, Rosangela Yazbec Sebba and Yamira Rodriguez Núñez are part of the program's team. The proposal is to bring to all those interested, issues related to the importance of music and its role in society.
Our guest is Alejandro Cremaschi, Professor of Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he teaches piano pedagogy and applied piano, directs the CU Youth Piano Program, and coordinates the class piano area. He is the Director for Research Advancement for the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy. Cremaschi is an active performer and has recorded as a soloist and chamber pianist for the labels IRCO, Ostinato, Marco Polo and Meridian Records. His pedagogical edition and recording of Alberto Ginastera's Doce Preludios Americanos for piano was published by Carl Fischer in 2016, and superseded the original 1946 original edition of this work. His research areas include concert repertoire and pedagogical music by Spanish and Latin American composers; student achievement, motivation and practicing strategies; and the pedagogical uses of technology. He has been a presenter at numerous national and international conferences, and has published articles in the Research Studies in Music Education journal, Journal of Music, Technology and Education, Clavier Companion, Piano Magazine and the MTNA e-journal among others. He was a prize winner at the International Beethoven Sonata Piano Competition in Memphis, Tennessee in 2001. Dr. Cremaschi received MM and DMA degrees from the University of Minnesota, and undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. He studied with pianists Dora De Marinis, Nancy Roldan and Lydia Artymiw. Cremaschi received an Outstanding Alumni Award from College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Maryland Baltimore County, and an Outstanding Service Recognition Award from the Frances Clark Center in 2021.
