Fred Kern
Piano
/ (940) 565-4731
Dr. Fred Kern, a native of Pittsfield, IL, is the Coordinator of Piano Pedagogy and Keyboard Skills and Professor of Music at the University of North Texas in Denton. He administers an area with three faculty members, nine graduate Teaching Fellows and over 600 music majors studying piano. He was previously on the faculties of William Rainey Harper College and Northwestern University.
He is the author, or co-author, of seven piano methods and numerous volumes of pedagogical publications to which he has contributed original compositions, arrangements and pedagogy curricula. One method, the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library, has been translated to 8 foreign languages. Dr. Kern was recently called a “pedagogical pathfinder” in a research document. His own doctoral research was on the American piano method and in particular, “The Contributions of Frances Clark to Piano Pedagogy.”
Dr. Kern is one of piano education’s most respected clinicians, having lead workshops in 36 states across the nation, as well as in Canada and Taiwan. He is an innovator in teaching fundamentals of music and pianism with fresh and inspiring perspectives incorporating creative approaches to learning.
His degrees are in piano performance, music education, and piano pedagogy – B.S. (Illinois State University); M.M. (Illinois Wesleyan University); Master of Music (Northwestern University) and Doctor of Musical Arts (University of Northern Colorado).
