Member, Commission on Accreditation
Elected November 2022; term ends November 2025
Courtney Crappell joined the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Conservatory as the Dean in fall 2022. He previously worked at the University of Houston (UH), where he was director of the Moores School of Music and Associate Dean for operations of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts.
Dean Crappell’s administrative experiences include fundraising, curricular design and oversight, support of faculty and staff, and community engagement. He has also been a leader in developing interdisciplinary work in the field of arts and health. In consultation with colleagues in the UH Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital’s Center for Performing Arts Medicine, he developed the proposal for the school’s new bachelor’s degree program in music therapy.
As a researcher and teacher in piano and piano pedagogy, Dean Crappell authored the book Teaching Piano Pedagogy: A Guidebook for Training Effective Teachers (Oxford, 2019). More recently, his interdisciplinary research team’s article, “The Effects of Group Keyboard Music Making on the Mood States of College Students,” appeared in the journal Psychology of Music. His articles and reviews have appeared in the journals American Music Teacher, Clavier Companion, Piano Pedagogy Forum, and the MTNA e-Journal, and he authors the regular column, “Teaching Tomorrow Today,” for the American Music Teacher journal. From 2008–2022, Dean Crappell served as a member of the executive steering committee for the National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Forum (GP3), and he has also served as co-chair of the Committee on Teacher Education in Higher Ed Committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP).
Dean Crappell holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance with emphasis in Piano Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma.
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Posted December 2022