
- tamagawk@southwestern.edu
- 512.863.1356
- Fine Arts 149
Kiyoshi Tamagawa
Professor of Music
Expertise
Piano, Music Theory, Chamber Music, Collaborative Performance
Kiyoshi Tamagawa, Professor of Music and Associate Dean for the Sarofim School of Fine Arts from 2014 to 2017, has performed as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout North America, as well as Europe and Asia. His collaboration with the late violinist Eugene Fodor resulted in over thirty recitals and a CD of violin and piano music, “Witches’ Brew.” He has appeared with the Austin and Temple Symphony Orchestras as soloist, and performed with orchestras in New England, Colorado and Hawaii. He has presented sessions at national conferences of the American String Teachers’ Association, College Music Society, and the Music Teachers’ National Association, as well as state and regional conferences, including the Texas Music Educators’ Association, Texas Music Teachers’ Association, and the College Music Society, South Central Chapter. His writings on musical topics have been published in American Music Teacher, American String Teacher, American Suzuki Journal and Keyboard (now Clavier) Companion. He is the 2013 recipient of the Collegiate Teaching Award of the Texas Music Teachers’ Association, and the 2016 Third Prize Winner of the American Prize Lorin Hollander Piano Concerto Award competition. His book Echoes from the East: The Influence of the Javanese Gamelan on the Music of Claude Debussy was published by Lexington Books in 2019.
He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin, the Master of Music from the Yale University School of Music, and the Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his [or her] own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
–Author unknown“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
– Jacques Barzun“To teach is to learn twice.”
–Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842