Dr. Ronald Chioldi - Publications

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 piano, class piano, and music theory. Other teaching appointments include summer piano faculties at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Georgia State University, and the University of Illinois. As a performer, he has appeared recently in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas. A diverse and committed educator, his piano students have won placement in masters programs and summer festivals throughout the country. Chioldi is a coauthor of the popular group-piano textbooks Keyboard Musicianship, and Keyboard Fundamentals, published by Stipes Publishing, and he has presented showcases highlighting these texts at national conferences of the Music Teachers National Association. He has presented workshops/lectures to piano teachers groups, and he is a sought-after adjudicator, throughout the south central and south east region of the United States. His article, Reflections on a Remarkable Career: An Interview with James Lyke, is published in the May/June 2009 issue of Clavier Companion. Chioldi received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois, where he was a student of Ian Hobson.