Scott Donald

Doctor of Musical Arts, Piano Performance

Dr. Scott Donald is pleased to be joining the faculty of Orpheus Academy. He is the former Director of the New School for Music Study in Kingston, NJ.  Other teaching duties also include piano faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, MI.  He has also served on the faculty of the American Boychoir School in Princeton, NJ and The College of New Jersey.  Dr. Donald has performed at major venues such as the Kimmel Center of Philadelphia, Interlochen Arts Camp and will make his Carnegie Hall debut in October, 2010.  He received his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Furman University in Greenville, SC, a Master of Music in Applied Piano and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education/Piano Pedagogy from The University of Texas at Austin where he studied piano with Danielle Martin and pedagogy with Robert Duke and Martha Hilley.

Dr. Donald maintains an active schedule involving performance, research and pedagogy presentations.  He has presented research at the local, state, national and international level and has published articles for Texas Music Education Research, American Music Teacher, Piano Pedagogy Forum, and Keyboard Companion. His research involves studying the motor skill development in piano performance and the structure of practice.  He is also a frequent adjudicator of festivals and auditions.  Dr. Donald is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music and serves on the research committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.

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