Detailed Information for Ruth Morrow

Dr. Ruth E. Morrow, NCTM, is the current Dolores P. Bolin and D. Phil and Aurora S. Bolin Chair of Piano and Chair of the Department of Music at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.  She holds degrees from Indiana University (DM, Piano Performance and Pedagogy), the Eastman School of Music (MM, Piano; MA, Musicology), and Whitman College (BA, Music, Philosophy).  With a background spans all musical styles and includes performances throughout the United States and Europe, Dr. Morrow remains in demand as recitalist, collaborative pianist, and lecturer on topics from ragtime to movement.  She teaches at the Indiana University Piano Academy each summer, and is a Certified Instructor of the Feldenkrais® Method.  In addition to her numerous musical endeavors, Dr. Morrow is an avid marathon and half-marathon runner.  She has finished a marathon in all 50 states and on all seven continents and plans to do the same with half marathons.

2012-13:

• "Debussy 150:" a concert to commemorate the 150th year of Claude Debussy's birth including performers from the piano and voice studios (MSU) as well as community members.

2011-12:

• Soloist with the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3
• "A Mixture of Seeming Opposites: World Music and Music in the Western Euaopean Tradition," co-presented with Prof. Ulrike Brinksmeier (College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, OH) at the biennial conference of the International Society of Music Educators (ISME) in Thessaloniki, Greece.
• "Mindful Practice Habits," poster presentation and dialogue at the biennial conference of ISME, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Wrote program notes for the 2011-12 season of the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra.
• Organized "Chopin Preludes Op. 28:" a recital by the collegiate pianists of Midwestern State University.

2010-11:

• Solo piano performance on faculty recital: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 2010
• Solo and chamber performances, Sails in the Desert Resort, Uluru/Ayers Rock, NT, Australia, July 2010
• "Listening through Silence to Sound," paper presentation at the National Conference of the College Music Society, Minneapolis, MN, September 2010
• Chamber Recital with Dr. David Johnson, violin: MSU, Steven F. Austin University
• Chamber Recital with Dr. Roy Couch, tuba: Cameron University (Lawton, OK); MSU
• Solo piano recital of the music of Mendelssohn, R. Schumann, Chopin, and Liszt (composers born 1809-11): MSU; Plano, TX