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University of Wyoming

Theresa BogardDr. Theresa Bogard
Piano Studio


(307) 766-3894
tbogard@uwyo.edu

Dr. Theresa Bogard received her undergraduate education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia where she studied with Elizabeth Powell, and at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  She then attended the Eastman School of Music where she completed a Master's degree in piano performance.  She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the University of Colorado.  Dr. Bogard has taught piano at Northeast Missouri State University, and West Chester University, and has been Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the University of Wyoming since 1992. 

Dr. Bogard is interested in historical performance practice and early pianos, and received a Fulbright grant to study fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in The Netherlands.  In 1989, she was a top-prize winner in the International Mozart Fortepiano Competition in Bruges, Belgium, and in December 1991, she performed the complete secular Leider by Mozart on fortepiano with Robert Harrison, tenor and the internationally acclaimed soprano, Judith Nelson as part of the Mozart Festival in Boulder, Colorado.  Robert Harrison and Dr. Bogard have also collaborated in period instrument performances of An Die Ferne Geliebte by Beethoven, Die Schöne Müllerin by Schubert, and Dichterliebe by Schumann. 

Dr. Bogard is an avid performer of music by women composers and has presented programs of their music in several cities in the United States and abroad.  In June, 1992, she gave critically acclaimed concerts in New Zealand and Australia which featured works by Louis Talma, Margaret Bonds, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Mrs. H. H. A. Beach.  She has presented lecture/recitals on music by American women composers at the Scripps College Inaugural Symposium on Women in Music in California and at the American Music, American Women Susan Porter Memorial Symposium in Colorado.

Dr. Bogard performs numerous solo and chamber music recitals throughout the U.S. each year and has appeared in concerto performances with the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, the UW Chamber Orchestra, and the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra.  Bogard is featured on a compact disc recording of piano works by Louise Talma which was released by CRI records in 1999.  In June, 2000 she was one of ten international adjudicators for the First Governor’s International Piano Competition in Saratov, Russia.  In the fall of 2000 she travelled to Mexico with cellist Karen Becker where they presented several recitals of music by contemporary American composers and gave masterclasses at universities in Mexico City, Guadalahara, and Zacatecas.  She was invited to return to Mexico and gave a series of solo recitals there in the Spring of 2001.  Since 1996, Dr. Bogard has added traditional Balinese gamelan music to her special interests and has studied gender wayang extensively in Bali, Indonesia. Dr. Bogard is also a member of the Wyoming Music Teachers' Association.