Dr. Rosi Guerrero has been a full-time tenured
faculty member in the music department
since 1998 and heads the piano department at Spokane Falls Community
School. Her expertises lie in
class piano instruction from beginner to advanced levels, private piano
instruction, piano pedagogy involving children in a young preparatory
program, and music theory instruction. Recently, Dr. Guerrero
piloted a funding proposal to upgrade the music building at SFCC, and the
music department was awarded $15 million dollars to renovate and add-on to
it’s building in 2009.
Dr. Guerrero is a member of the Washington State
Music Teachers Association Spokane Chapter and the Music Teachers National
Association. She has an
extensive educational background with a Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree
from Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan, a Master of Music Degree
from the University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, and a
Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada. All three degrees emphasize a major in
piano performance. Guerrero’s piano studies also include Gyorgy
Sebok at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada, Robin Wood, Nohema
Fernandez and Ralph
Votapek.
Dr. Guerrero is a strong advocate of the philosophy
that music education and participation in music should be accessible to
everyone. Music is
expressive, inventive, meaningful, but most importantly, humanistic.
It is an artistic form of self-expression from within.
Offering music instruction within the community provides all
students with diverse backgrounds, regardless of their age, level or
ethnicity, the opportunity to contribute to the cultural and social life
of the communities in which they live.
Rosi has been an adjudicator for the Washington
State Music Teachers Association State Honors Piano Recital Competition,
the Washington State Music Teachers Association Honors Recognition Piano
Recital and the Michigan Music Association Annual Piano Competition.
She has toured Japan, Quebec and Vancouver for the Worldwide and National
Music Festival. As a performer, Rosi has had a wide variety of
experiences in the solo, chamber and accompanying repertoire.
She has performed in numerous recitals throughout Western Canada,
Southwestern and Eastern United States, and presented a piano lecture
recital on "The Evolution and Idiosyncrasy of Stravinsky’s Solo
Piano Works" in Michigan.
Rosi Guerrero also actively participates in
seminars and workshop's across the Western region, including the Piano
Pedagogy summer workshops in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the World Piano
Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Pacific Northwest Teachers
Seminar in Portland, Oregon, and the Seminar in Community & Technical
College Education in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Guerrero served on the music faculty as an
adjunct instructor in piano pedagogy at Michigan State University (MSU)
and has been a former faculty member of the Community Music School at
MSU, the Tucson Valley Suzuki Association, and the Southwest School of
Music in Tucson. Functioning as supervisor and coordinator of the
Class Piano Program at MSU, she supervised and trained the class piano
graduate teaching assistants and dealt with approximately 125 music majors
and non-music majors at the undergraduate level on a daily basis.
Through lecture-demonstrations of keyboard applications skills and music
fundamentals, she assisted students in acquiring skills to improvise,
develop aural cognition, harmonize and apply theoretical concepts to other
subjects within their degree program.
Her extensive training also includes working with beginning level pedagogy courses and the piano pedagogy Children’s Preparatory Program at MSU, providing hands-on demonstrations and acting as supervising teacher for undergraduate pedagogy and piano majors. This is an innovative and valuable program to undergraduate degree students because it provides the opportunity for college students to become directly involved within the community, and at the same time, equips students with the necessary teaching tools in order to prepare them toward a successful teaching career in music.
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