Simon Music Center, 225G
Education
- Bachelor of Music, Boston University, 1999
- Master of Music, University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music, 2001
- Performer Diploma, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2005
Biography
Alissa Guntren is visiting lecturer in music in music in general studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has taught since 2009.
She coordinates the music theory courses for Music in General Studies and teaches music fundamentals, aural skills, and music history courses. She designed and is the primary instructor for a comprehensive piano and aural skills course for musical theater majors.
Guntren earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Boston University, Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Cincinnati, and Performer Diploma in Piano Performance from the Jacobs School of Music. She completed the coursework for a Ph.D. in Music Theory at Jacobs, where she also studied historical keyboard instruments in its Historical Performance Institute.
Her research interests focus on music and the somatic experience, creativity in music-making, and music theory pedagogy. She has a particular affinity for nineteenth-century German Romantic repertoire. Her instructors have included Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Menahem Pressler, Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff, Maria Clodes Jaguaribe, and Elisabeth Wright.
Guntren is an active chamber music performer and piano instructor and active in multiple local nonprofits, including Bridges Musical Arts Youth Organization and Women Writing for (a) Change Bloomington.