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Pianist Elizabeth
Gutierrez enjoys a diverse career as a performer, teacher, and
pedagogue and currently holds the positions of Assistant Professor of
Music and Coordinator of the Keyboard Area at The University of Texas
at San Antonio. Prior to her appointment at UTSA, she served as the
Director of Keyboard Editing for The FJH Music Company and Associate
Professor of Piano at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A native of Texas,
she received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano
performance with highest honors from the University of Texas at
Austin where she studied with Lita Guerra. Other teachers with whom
she has collaborated include distinguished pianists Artur Balsam and
Leonard Shure. Ms. Gutierrez performs extensively as both a soloist
and chamber musician and has appeared in recital throughout the U.S.,
in Mexico and Europe. She is a featured solo recording artist with Euterpe’s
Ear (www.the-ear.com),
an audio music reference library web site highlighting recorded
excerpts of selected piano works drawn from the standard teaching and
performance literature.
Ms. Gutierrez is
in frequent demand as a lecturer and clinician for workshops,
conferences, and master classes in the U.S. and has also given
presentations for universities and music teacher organizations in
South America. Her articles on teaching have been featured in the
national music journal, Keyboard Companion, and she is also
recognized as a successful composer of educational music for piano
students. Her piano arrangements and compositions are published by
The FJH Music Company, for which she also serves as an associate editor.
An avid researcher
and proponent for Latin-American piano music, Ms. Gutierrez is
becoming particularly well known for her discoveries in this field.
Her performances and lectures have been influential in presenting
this emerging tradition. Many of the attractive pieces from this
colorful literature are now distributed through ALMA Inc. (The
Association for Latin-American Music and Art) a company that she
founded in 1998. |
