Dr. Beth Quilian (jobeth@dbu.edu)

Beth Quillian is the current Director of the Keyboard Division in the Department of Music and has served on the music faculty since 1995. In addition to the critically acclaimed Abby Simon, her teachers have included Peggy Abraham, Jane Abbot-Kirk, Betty Ruth Tomfohrde, Nancy Weems, and Robert Smith. Dr. Quillian is an active solo performer and is also in demand as an adjudicator of piano festivals, competitions, and solo literature contests.

A deep interest in the development of pedagogy and accompanying skills, has led Quillian to restructuring the piano program at DBU in order to emphasize these areas to undergraduate piano students. This coincides with her love of artistic collaboration with singers and various combinations of instruments.

She holds the BM in Piano Performance from Baylor University, the MM in Piano Performance from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, and the DMA in Piano from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary where she was awarded the James C. McKinney Outstanding Performer Award.

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