Senior Lecturer/Accompanying and Class Piano

Faith DeBow, Senior Lecturer, has taught class piano and accompanying at Texas State since 2001, where she also frequently accompanies student and faculty recitals.  Ms. DeBow enjoys a vibrant and eclectic career as a collaborative and solo pianist throughout the Central Texas area.  She plays for the Grammy-nominated, Austin-based professional choir Conspirare, and is an instrumental staff accompanist at Trinity University in San Antonio.  In addition, she works with the boy choir program at the PreK-8th grade San Antonio Academy. 

Ms. DeBow has performed in over a dozen U.S. states and six countries. She has worked on the accompanying staffs of Interlochen Arts Camp and the Quartet Program at Bucknell.  She has performed solo concerts at the National Conservatory of Panama and for the U.S. ambassador to Panama, and in summer 2007, she accompanied the Hill Country Youth Choir for their two-week tour of England and Wales.  In July 2008, she played three concerts in Copenhagen, Denmark with Conspirare at the Eighth World Symposium on Choral Music, including a world premiere of the "Light Mass" by Vytautas Miskinis.  Conspirare recently filmed a one-hour television special for PBS that will be broadcast nationally in March 2009. 
 
Ms. DeBow holds a master's degree in accompanying and chamber music from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Jean Barr and was the first awardee of the Brooks Smith Fellowship.  She earned her bachelor's degree in piano performance from Butler University, where her teachers were Steven Roberson and Panayis Lyras.  She has been coached in masterclasses by artists Malcolm Bilson, Nelita True, Maurice Hinson, Fernando Laires, and Santiago Rodriguez. During her time at Butler, where she was also a Division I competitive swimmer, she won the concerto competition and performed the Ravel Concerto in G major with the Butler Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. DeBow is also a singer/songwriter and plays the organ and harpsichord. She enjoys performing new music and has worked with composers Jake Heggie, Eric Whitacre, Tarik O'Regan, Donald Grantham, Vytautas Miskinis, Mark Cruz, Charles Ditto, and Jae-Un Park. In 2007, Ms. DeBow was included in Who’s Who Among American Teachers and Educators.