Gilbert DeBenedetti

Present Positions

• Endorsed Consultant, Advanced Placement Music Theory, The College Board (April, 2006).
  My AP workshops will grant continuing education credit to teachers beginning the summer of 2006.
• Music Faculty, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

  Music Faculty, Pittsburgh Public Schools: Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

  Independent Private Piano Teacher.

Education

• Master of Arts in Music Theory and Composition, University of Pittsburgh (1985).
• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music (Composition), Carnegie-Mellon University (1980).
• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Education, Carnegie-Mellon University (1980).
• Pennsylvania Level II Teaching Certificate (Music).
• Master of Science in Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University (1976).
• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University (1973).

Areas of Interest

• Composing for beginning pianists
• Music theory pedagogy
• Piano pedagogy