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Video 1: What is your musical background?
Video 2: What composers have influenced you?
Video 3: What is your composition process like?
Video 4: What advice do you have for piano students and composers?
Meet Jason Sifford – Bio
Dr. Jason Sifford is a freelance pianist, teacher, and composer with a wide range of abilities and interests. He teaches at Cornell College (Iowa), maintains a private teaching studio in Iowa City, and is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician, lecturing on such diverse topics as classical performance practice, jazz pedagogy, technical development in young pianists, composition, and music technology. He also appears regularly as a music director and theater musician.
As a composer, Dr. Sifford is primarily interested in didactic literature for the piano, and his catalog includes several solo collections, a baroque suite, and arrangements of popular and traditional songs. His music is featured in the state syllabi for Iowa and Minnesota, the bulletin for the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Royal Conservatory of Music (Canada). Dr. Sifford holds degrees from Missouri State University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan. More on Jason can be found on his website.
