Professor of Piano
Fine Arts Building 222
918-444-2707
chioldi@nsuok.edu
Degrees
D.M.A. Piano Performance - University of Illinois
M.M. Piano Performance - University of Illinois
B.A. Music - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
Piano
Piano Pedagogy
Group Piano
Music Theory
Ronald Chioldi is professor of music at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where he teaches studio piano, class piano, piano pedagogy, and music theory.
Dr. Chioldi is an active performer, appearing as soloist and collaborator throughout the region. Recent solo and collaborative performances include concerts in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
A committed educator and author, Dr. Chioldi is a coauthor of the popular group-piano textbooks Keyboard Musicianship, Books 1 & 2 (9th edition), and Keyboard Fundamentals, Books 1 & 2 (5th edition), both published by Stipes Publishing of Champaign, Illinois. He has presented showcases highlighting these texts at national conferences of the Music Teachers National Association in Albuquerque, Atlanta, Georgia and Austin. He has written for Clavier Companion. His article, "Reflections on a Remarkable Career: An Interview with James Lyke," is published in the May/June 2009 issue of Clavier Companion. An active member of Music Teachers National Association, he has presented workshops/lectures such as Intermediate Piano Concertos and Developing Technique Through Intermediate Literature, and he is a sought-after adjudicator. He has served on the summer piano faculties at Georgia State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His students have won competitions, and have earned placement in prestigious summer programs, as well as graduate schools across the country.
Chioldi began playing the piano as an undergraduate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently, earned both the Master of Music, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied piano with Ian Hobson and piano pedagogy with James Lyke.