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Susanne Skyrm .has appeared as a piano soloist and collaborative artist throughout the United States and Europe. She combines performing the standard piano repertoire with research interests in early keyboards and Spanish and Latin American keyboard music. Her performances have been broadcast in the USA on public radio and on public access television. She has recorded 18th-century Spanish and Portuguese keyboard music on a rare Portuguese fortepiano from the collections of The National Music Museum on the University of South Dakota campus (Treasures of Iberian Keyboard Music, Music & Arts). She has given presentations for the Music Teachers National Association, the European Piano Teachers Association, the College Music Society, the American Musical Instrument Society, the Diego Fernandez International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music and many others. Recent performances include a recital for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America's international meeting at the National Music Museum in Vermillion in May and at the International Festival of Spanish Music in Mojácar, Spain in August. Dr. Skyrm recently published Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Music (Wayne Leupold Editions, 2010), which features music of Sebastián Albero, Jose Galles, Manuel Blasco de Nebra, and other, lesser-known composers. Dr. Skyrm holds degrees in piano performance from the College of Idaho, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was a prize winner in the Mason and Hamlin Idaho state auditions and the regional auditions and the recipient of an award from the Cincinnati Three Arts Foundation. She studied with master teacher Ilonka Deckers-Küszler in Milan, Italy, for a number of years. Other teachers include Fern Nolte Davidson, Larry Graham, and Ray Dudley, piano; Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano; and Bernard Brauchli, clavichord. In 2006 she was named the first recipient of the University of South Dakota's College of Fine Arts Biennial Distinguished Professor Award. She teaches studio and class piano and piano literature at the University of South Dakota, where she has been on the faculty since 1988. .
Piano, piano literature
piano performance, early piano, Spanish and Latin American keyboard music.
