Vanessa Cornett-Murtada is the Director of Keyboard Studies and Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy. She teaches piano and courses through the Graduate Programs in Music Education, including elementary and intermediate piano pedagogy, keyboard literature, and music theory pedagogy. She also directs the Certificate in Piano Pedagogy and the annual Summer Workshops in Piano Pedagogy at the University of St. Thomas. Outside of the music department she serves on the Advisory Board of the Luann Dummer Center for Women and on the Coordinating Council of the University Advocates for Women and Equity.
An international clinician, Dr. Cornett has presented workshops and masterclasses around the United States and in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, and Taiwan. She is an active clinician for national conferences of the Music Teachers National Association, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and the College Music Society. She has also presented at the World Piano Conference, International Conference of the Arts in Society, and the Centre for the Study of International Governance.
Her publications include book chapters in the fourth edition of Creative Piano Teaching, papers in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and in the Proceedings from Pedagogy Saturday (MTNA), forthcoming papers in College Music Symposium and Cultural Politics: Exploring Cultural and Political Power Across the Globe, and numerous reviews of books and new music in Clavier Companion and American Music Teacher. She chairs the Historical Perspectives Committee of the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and serves on the Membership Committee as Collegiate Liaison for the Minnesota Music Teachers Association. She received outstanding teaching awards from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Music Academy of North Carolina.
Dr. Cornett obtained the D.M.A. degree in piano performance and the Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned her B.M. degree in piano performance and M.M. degree in piano pedagogy from West Virginia University. She is a certified hypnotherapist who specializes in the treatment of performance anxiety for musicians. Her current research focuses on human consciousness and music performance.
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