Oscar Macchioni, D.M.A. Keyboard  omacchioni@utep.edu Office: FFA M438 Office Phone: (915) 747-7817

Oscar Macchioni joined the music faculty of the University of Texas at El Paso in 2003. He teaches class piano, piano pedagogy and applied piano. Dr. Macchioni was born in Tucumán, Argentina. Upon his graduation from the National University of Tucumán, he received a scholarship from the Polish Government to study piano at the Academy of Music of Krakow with Prof. Ewa Bukojemska. He received his Master in Music from Louisiana State University and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Arizona studying under the guidance of Micheal Gurt, Dr. Nohema Fernández and Prof. Tannis Gibson.
 
He won several competitions in Argentina and the USA, such as Green Valley Piano competition in Arizona, Promociones Musicales de Buenos Aires and Tucumán National University (composition), and was a finalist in the International Audio-Tape Piano Competition organized by the Germaine Pinault International Music Society in New York. Oscar Macchioni has performed extensively in his native Argentina, Italy, Poland, Mexico and in the USA, which has included such notable locations as the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago (live recording available in YouTube); Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Columbia University, Steinway Hall, and the Donnell Library in New York. He  enjoys research activities and recently presented  lecture-recitals at international and national conferences such us the Second International Vernacular Conference in Puebla, Mexico (selected The Outstanding Musical Presentation of the Conference); International Council for Traditional Music in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; College Music Sociaety, and Society for Ethnomusicology.

Oscar Macchioni has been recognized by many international and national  organizations.  He has been sponsored by Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. (Fellow Graduate Student, Summer 2000), the Polish Government, Organization of American States (OAS), Leschetizky Association of New York, Bariloche Music Camp, and most recently he received the Music Teachers National Association "StAr" Award and was named "Distinguished Graduate Student" by the University of Arizona Music Advisory Board. In 2004, Oscar Macchioni has been featured in the French Magazine Piano. La Lettre du Musicien,  among other Argentinean pianists, and an extensive Artist/Educator interview was published in August 2007 in the Piano  Education Page.  His biography aslo appeared in the 2005 edition of Who's Who in Amercia.

Dr. Macchioni is much in demand as a piano adjudicator. In July of 2006, he spent a month in Taiwan invited by the International Piano Performance Examinations Committee, where he examined about 1,200 students nation wide. He was also invited to serve as a judge for the World Piano Pedagogy Conference "Most Wanted" Piano Competition, MTNA and EPMTA competitions. Although he is a passionate performer of Latin American music, Dr. Macchioni's repertoire includes a diversity of musical styles and composers from all periods from Soler to William Bolcom and Astor Piazzolla.