Professor Emeritus

In an increasingly active career, Timothy Woolsey has given over 100 performances and masterclasses during the past several years. Recent performances have included solo recitals at the Phillips Collection and the National Gallery of Art (both broadcast to audiences of 75,000 in the Washington D.C. area), a lecture-recital on the 18th-century fortepiano at the Texas Music Teachers Association Convention, and a lecture-recital on the piano music of Alexander Scriabin at the MTNA National Convention in Little Rock.

He has also performed with the East Texas Symphony, at Shatin City Hall in Hong Kong, and at many colleges and universities in Texas and throughout the United States. His solo programs include works he has commissioned from leading Texas composers, and he recently recorded these works for Centaur Records©.

He is currently Professor of Piano at Texas State University. He has been nominated by the School of Fine Arts for the University's Teaching Excellence Award four times, and in 1988 he was one of three finalists selected for this award out of a faculty of over 700. In 1993 he was selected by the Texas Music Teachers Association as Collegiate Teacher of the Year.

He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied with John Perry. He also studied with Anne Koscielny at the Hartt School of Music and has coached with many other eminent teachers including Frank Mannheimer, Lilian Kallir, and Roy Hamlin Johnson. In addition, he has studied with Malcolm Bilson, the world-renowned fortepianist.