Kristian Klefstad
KRISTIAN KLEFSTAD is Assistant Professor of Piano at Belmont University, where he teaches piano, piano pedagogy, piano literature, and chamber music. In addition to directing the Piano Ensemble and the Graduate Chamber Ensemble, he is the Coordinator of the Piano Pedagogy program at Belmont and the Programs Chair for the Nashville Area Music Teachers Association.
Dr. Klefstad is an active recitalist, clinician, lecturer, and adjudicator in the United States. He has performed solo and chamber music recitals, throughout the country, including an appearance at Rockford, Illinois’s On the Waterfront festival in 2002, and has appeared as a soloist with the Jefferson City Symphony, the University of Texas Symphony, and the Millikin-Decatur Civic Symphony. Dr. Klefstad enjoys sharing musical understanding in the lecture-demonstration format, and recently presented an introduction to music of Ecuadorian composer Luis Humberto Salgado at the College Music Society’s National Conference in 2007.
Before coming to Nashville, Dr. Klefstad taught piano at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and was the Music Director of the Ballet Austin Academy. He served on the faculty and taught masterclasses for three years ar Baylor’s Summer Keyboard Institute. He has completed several arrangements of symphonic music for piano duo, and his setting of the finale from Beethoven’s Choral Symphony for two pianos was premiered in Temple, Texas by the CAC Chorale in 2005.
Dr. Klefstad is dedicated to raising and maintaining standards of musical proficiency and understanding in higher education, and strongly believes in rich and frequent interaction between college faculty and pre-college educators.
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