Connie Arrau-Sturm
Professor - Piano Pedagogy
Connie Arrau Sturm, Ph.D., coordinates the group piano and piano pedagogy programs at WVU. She is the author/clinician of over seventy-five publications/presentations, and a recent winner of the American Music Teacher Article of the Year award. Sturm served as a past Student Chapters Chairman for the Music Teachers National Association and currently chairs the Historical Research Committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She is currently researching innovative contributions of American women in early twentieth-century piano teaching. Her former students now hold piano teaching positions in colleges, music schools, and independent studios in the U.S. and abroad.