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Kevin R. Olson is
an active pianist, composer, and faculty member at Elmhurst College
near Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches classical and jazz piano,
music theory, and electronic music. He holds a Doctor of Education
degree from National-Louis University, and bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in music composition and theory from Brigham
Young University. Before teaching at Elmhurst College, he held a
visiting professor position at Humboldt State University in California.
A native of Utah,
Kevin began composing at the age of five. When he was twelve, his
composition An American Trainride received the Overall First
Prize at the 1983 National PTA Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Since then, he has been a Composer-in-Residence at the National
Conference on Piano Pedagogy and has written music for the American
Piano Quartet, Chicago a cappella, the Rich Matteson Jazz Festival,
and several piano teachers associations around the country.
Kevin maintains a
large piano studio, teaching students of a variety of ages and
abilities. Many of the needs of his own piano students have inspired
a diverse collection of books and solos published by The FJH Music
Company Inc., which he joined as a writer in 1994. |
