Associate Professor of Music (Piano Pedagogy)
Office: Catlett Music Center 017
Phone: (405) 325-5444
Email: bfast@ou.edu
Dr. Barbara Fast, Keyboard Department Chair, coordinates the group piano program as well as teaches undergraduate and graduate piano pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma. She co-originated the National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum held for the first time in 2000 with the second Forum scheduled for 2004. She also serves as Associate Editor of Piano Pedagogy Forum, the first keyboard journal on the WEB, and has presented workshops on historical keyboard pedagogy and technology topics at Music Teachers National Conferences, World Piano Pedagogy Conferences, International and National College Music Society Conferences and the European Piano Teachers Conference. Additionally she has performed in chamber settings in England, Russia, Japan and Korea, as well as presented lecture recitals and master classes throughout the United States. Dr. Fast previously served as Keyboard Chair and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Northern Iowa.
BM—Piano and Flute, Bethel College, 1975
MM—Piano Performance, Kansas State University, 1977
PhD—Music Education (piano pedagogy), University of Oklahoma, 1997
Dr. Barbara Fast, Keyboard Department Chair, coordinates the group piano program as well as teaches undergraduate and graduate piano pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma. She co-originated the National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum held for the first time in 2000 with the second Forum scheduled for 2004. She also serves as Associate Editor of Piano Pedagogy Forum, the first keyboard journal on the WEB, and has presented workshops on historical keyboard pedagogy and technology topics at Music Teachers National Conferences, World Piano Pedagogy Conferences, International and National College Music Society Conferences and the European Piano Teachers Conference. Additionally she has performed in chamber settings in England, Russia, Japan and Korea, as well as presented lecture recitals and master classes throughout the United States. Dr. Fast previously served as Keyboard Chair and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Northern Iowa.