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Musicfest Northwest is an adjudicated classical music program held in Spokane, Washington
Piano Adjudicator
Theresa Bogard
Theresa Bogard is an active performer combining varied
interests in historical performance practice, contemporary
music, chamber music and the music of women composers.
She studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in
Australia, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the
Eastman School of Music. In 1988, she received a Fulbright
grant to study fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland at the Royal
Conservatory of the Hague in The Netherlands, and was a
top-prize winner in the International Mozart Fortepiano
Competition in Bruges, Belgium the following year. Theresa
has presented programs of solo and chamber music in
several cities in the United States, Mexico, New Zealand,
Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Korea, Indonesia, China, and Brazil
and is also featured on a CD recording of piano works by
Louise Talma.
Sought after as a collaborative pianist, Bogard she can be
heard on two recordings for saxophone and piano with
saxophonist Scott Turpen on the Albany label, Johann
Nepomuk Hummel: Chamber Music at Schönbrunn with Red
Cedar Chamber Music on the Fleur de son Classics label,
Eastern Gems, a disc of flute and piano music by eastern
European composers with flutist Nicole Riner on Centaur
Records, Music of Gustav Nolck for cello and piano, and a
recently released recording of chamber works by Jennifer
Higdon. In June 2000 she was one of ten international
adjudicators for the First Governor’s International Piano
Competition in Saratov, Russia, and she has adjudicated
numerous regional and national competitions in the US.
A longtime member of MTNA, Bogard is well known as a
teacher and has been honored with numerous teaching
awards. In 2008, she was chosen as the Wyoming Professor
of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education. Her students have distinguished
themselves in national and international competitions
including six national MTNA finalists. Her piano students
have been accepted into graduate and undergraduate
programs at Julliard, the Eastman School of Music, Cleveland
Institute of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music,
Manhattan School of Music, Rice University, Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, Indiana
University, University of Wisconsin, University of Houston,
and the University of Michigan. Dr. Bogard is a Steinway
Artist and is currently the head of the Keyboard Area of the
Department of Music at the University of Wyoming.