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Dr. Janet Landreth

Keyboard Area Coordinator

(970) 491-6880 | Janet.Landreth@colostate.edu

Dr. Janet Landreth – Coordinator of Keyboard Area Studies and Associate Professor of Music, teaches Piano, Piano Literature, and Special Topics in Pedagogy. She studied with Jean Marie Darre and Pierre Barbizet at the Academie internationale d’ete in Nice, France where she earned the coveted performer’s certificate, with Celia Mae Bryant and Aldo Mancinelli at The University of Oklahoma (D.M.A.) and Tulsa University (M.M., B.M.), respectively, and with John Perry at the Aspen Summer Music Festival. She has been the recipient of numerous performance awards including the Bloch Young Artist Award and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Artistic Performance and has performed as soloist with the Denver Symphony, the Centennial Symphony, the Jackson Symphony, the Oklahoma Symphony, and the Fort Collins Symphony, among others. Many of her students have also won prizes and awards, including ten that have been featured soloists with the Denver Symphony.

Janet combines an active career as an artist-teacher and performer with international research and travel. She has studied Alexander Technique in London, England and lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she did extensive research on the piano music of the great Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos at the Museu Villa-Lobos. She was a featured soloist in the International Deia Music Festival in Mallorca, Spain in August of 2000, performing in the magical setting of Son Marroig, the former royal residence of Archduke Ludwig Salvador of Austria. As a representative of the U.S and a specialist in the music of Villa-Lobos, she performed works by Samuel Barber and Villa-Lobos in addition to works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Sgambati and Liszt. In April of 2002, she was one of four scholars from the United States whose research papers were selected for presentation at the 1st International Villa-Lobos Conference in Paris, France. The conference was organized by the musicology department of the University of Helsinki, Finland and the Villa-Lobos Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and took place in the Finnish Cultural Center in the heart of Paris. Dr. Landreth’s paper entitled “Settings of Folk Tunes and Children’s Songs in the Solo Piano Music of Villa-Lobos” was subsequently accepted for publication by the Finnish musical journal, Acta Semiotica Fennica. Dr. Landreth has also been invited to serve on a doctoral thesis jury at the Sorbonne in Paris, France in December of 2002 as a result of her dissertation research on the French composer, Andre Jolivet.

In addition to her career as a performer, teacher, and scholar, as Coordinator of the Keyboard Area at Colorado State University, she has organized and hosted many keyboard workshops, master classes, and concerts by visiting artists from around the world, such as Dmitri Ratser, Edwardo Ponce, Sophia Hasse, Suzanne Bradbury, Awadagin Pratt, Gary Graffman, Walter Klien, and many others. She is also Founder and Artistic Director of the Wendel Diebel Keyboard Olympics, a highly innovative annual event modeled after Olympic skating competitions and open to keyboard students of all ages each summer on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins, Colorado.