Andrea Johnson

Andrea Johnson is the Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Northern Iowa where she coordinates the group piano and piano pedagogy programs. Dr. Johnson obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy degree at the University of Oklahoma in 2019 where she also served as Instructor of Piano Pedagogy from 2018-2019.  Her primary teachers include Jane Magrath, Barbara Fast, Claire Wachter, David Riley, Susan Chan, and Leonard Richter. She also holds degrees from the University of Oregon, and Portland State University. 

 

Dr. Johnson has enjoyed collaborative performances with faculty members at the University of Northern Iowa and University of Oklahoma and her recent invited solo and collaborative performances include Portland, Eugene, Bend, and Monmouth, Oregon; Pullman, Washington; Norman, Oklahoma; Cedar Falls, Iowa; Denton, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; and Athens and Nafplion, Greece. In May of 2022 Dr. Johnson traveled as the piano accompanist and solo performer with the UNI Cecilians Choral Ensemble to Greece with director Dr. Amy Kotsonis.  

 

Dr. Johnson’s publications have been accepted in national and internationally distributed academic journals, as well as local music teacher association outreach journals. An article based on her dissertation entitled “The Acting System of Konstantin Stanislavski as Applied to Piano Performance” was recently published in the Piano Pedagogy Forum Online Journal and the MTNA eJournal. Andrea recently conducted a study in collaboration with University of Northern Iowa Kinesiology professor Terence Moriarty which was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology Spring of 2022. An abstract and poster presentation of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Moriarty’s research findings were recently accepted at the  National American College of Sport Medicine Annual Meeting and World Congress in June 2022. 

 

Dr. Johnson presents nationally and has most recently been invited to present at the Music Teachers National Association Conference, National Center for Keyboard Pedagogy Virtual Conference, College Music Society National Conference, College Music Society Southern Regional Conference, Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Conference (GP3), South Carolina Music Teachers Association State Conference, Iowa Music Teachers Association State Conference, and the National American College of Sport Medicine Annual Meeting and World Congress. Committed to local outreach, Dr. Johnson regularly serves as an adjudicator nationally and she has served as President of the Northeast Iowa Music Teachers Association from 2020-2023 and as an executive board member of the Iowa Music Teachers Association. In her extra time, Dr. Johnson enjoys performing in local theater, and recently appeared in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa. A private piano instructor, Dr. Johnson maintains a private piano studio with students in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa.