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Name
Dennis Thurmond
Title
Masterclass Clinician
Bio
Dennis Thurmond, former director of piano pedagogy program and the DMA 4th Field Electro- Acoustic Media at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Formerly the Chairman of the Music Synthesis Department and piano faculty at The Berklee College of Music in Boston. Former Teaching Fellow at the MIT (Cambridge) Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Formerly on the summer faculty at the Utrecht-HKU Conservatory in the Netherlands and improvisation master classes at the Hochschule fur Musik (Freiburg, Germany). A classical and jazz pianist and keyboard synthesist. He was a student of Adele Marcus, Stewart Gordon and Vasant Rai. He did advanced graduate study at Columbia University, NYC. He was a studio musician in New York City for 10 years. Dennis Thurmond is a composer for Alfred Publishing, California and The Forest of Music Press, Taipei/Shanghai. He has presented many master classes/performances including World Pedagogy Conference, Chair of Improvisation Committee World Pedagogy Conference, Slovenia, (Lectures on Improvisation) A New Era in Keyboard Instruction with Robert Pace, and has presented at the Acoustic Society of America, “Acoustic and Electronic Instruments in Improvisation: A Keyboard Performance Perspective”, “Developing Improvisation Skills with the Aid of Music Sequencing Software”. The Art of the Piano, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
During 2017/2018 completed a 30 city China concert tour for Yamaha China. He was a juror for the finals of the 2nd National Yamaha China Electronic Keyboard Competition, he was invited to perform and lecture at the Belt and Road International Music Seminar on the Art of Improvisation held at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
He continues to tour Asia, Europe and USA and was a studio musician for many years in NYC where he was keyboardist/arranger for the New York Vocal Ensemble.
His compositions include:
The Jazz SophistiCAT (4 volumes)
Music Thru MIDI (4 volumes)
A Systemic Approach for the Classical Pianist
TaiChi of Improvisation
The Beginning Modern Pianist (5 volumes..in /EnglishChinese) The Twelve Studies (Chinese) Music+Math=Melodic Improvisational Patterns (in progress)
During 2017/2018 completed a 30 city China concert tour for Yamaha China. He was a juror for the finals of the 2nd National Yamaha China Electronic Keyboard Competition, he was invited to perform and lecture at the Belt and Road International Music Seminar on the Art of Improvisation held at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
He continues to tour Asia, Europe and USA and was a studio musician for many years in NYC where he was keyboardist/arranger for the New York Vocal Ensemble.
His compositions include:
The Jazz SophistiCAT (4 volumes)
Music Thru MIDI (4 volumes)
A Systemic Approach for the Classical Pianist
TaiChi of Improvisation
The Beginning Modern Pianist (5 volumes..in /EnglishChinese) The Twelve Studies (Chinese) Music+Math=Melodic Improvisational Patterns (in progress)
