Piano Pedagogy
If teaching is your passion, consider a degree in piano pedagogy.
As a piano pedagogy student, you’ll combine extensive course work with simultaneous hands-on teaching experience. Regular observation of teaching and the discussion of teaching strengths and weaknesses will allow you to develop teaching skills throughout your course of study.
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music@tcu.edu
817-257-7232
Ann M. Gipson Ph.D., NCTM
Director of Piano Pedagogy Programs
Associate Professor of Music
a.gipson@tcu.edu
817-257-6312
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Programs Offered
Sample Courses
- Group Piano Pedagogy
- Educational Psychology
- Philosophy of Music Education
- Current Trends and Research in Piano Pedagogy
Core Curriculum
Your success is at our Core. TCU’s Core Curriculum prepares you to live and work in today’s ever-evolving diverse and global society. It encourages you to be intellectually curious and ask big questions about the world and your place in it.
Special Admission Requirements
For undergraduates and graduates wanting to attend the TCU School of Music, there is an admissions process. Learn more about the audition requirements.
What Sets Us Apart
At TCU, we offer valuable hands-on experience—quite literally. Undergraduate and graduate piano pedagogy students teach pre-college students enrolled in the Pedagogy Laboratory Program, a two-year program of beginning piano instruction combining both class and private instruction. Graduate students also teach college-level piano classes, non-music major piano classes, adult hobby piano classes and college students studying piano as an elective.
Your piano pedagogy professor will work with you to choose the right combination of courses and mentor you so you can reach your goals.
Career Prospects
Our students complete their studies in the perfect position to teach others, whether they choose to establish their own music studio or teach in a community school or university setting. TCU’s piano pedagogy students experience the rewards of helping others use music to explore the intersecting worlds of emotion and sound.
Related Academic Programs
- Brass
- Collaborative Piano
- Conducting
- Music
- Music Education
- Music Theory & Composition
- Musicology
- Organ & Church Music
- Percussion
- Piano
- Strings
- Voice
- Woodwinds
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