Christopher Guzman

Sue Haug

Sue Haug became director of the School of Music in July 2005. Prior to her arrival at Penn State, she served as head of the Department of Music at Iowa State University, a position she had held since 1991. She taught piano and piano pedagogy as a member of the ISU music faculty since 1975. Haug holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Iowa. She has performed regularly as soloist and accompanist. She and her colleagues at ISU developed and toured with original music-dramas on the lives and music of Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Nadia Boulanger. Her most recent research has focused on sight-reading at the piano and cognitive psychology as it applies to the learning of music. Haug's articles have been published in the American Music Teacher, Clavier, and Keyboard Companion, and she has been invited to give presentations at national meetings of the College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association, the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, and Sigma Alpha Iota. She is past president of the Iowa Music Teachers Association.

Steven Smith, professor of piano at Penn State, has recorded and performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has won the Mozarteum competition in Salzburg, and in 1991 he received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association. He has performed recitals and concertos throughout the world and has recorded solo recitals for the French, German, and Spanish national radios, Radio 4 Hong Kong, and America’s PBS. His compact discs appear on the Cambria and Innova labels. He has given many master classes and lecture recitals for universities and teacher associations in the United States and abroad, including the University of Melbourne, Australia, Hong Kong’s Academy of Performing Arts, and Glasgow’s Royal Scottish Academy among others. Recently he has focused on a comprehensive series of recitals of Beethoven’s sonata and other repertoire. He received critical acclaim for his series of new-music solo recitals, Piano Entente, presented at Merkin Concert Hall in New York and at St. John’s Smith Square, London. Smith was honored in 2005 with the PSU College of Arts and Architecture’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching; previously he won the Teacher of the Year Award of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers’ Association. His students have won significant national awards, including the Fulbright Scholarship and the Clara Wells Competition of the Matthay Association. In the Music Teachers National Association competitions since 1991, four of his Penn State students have been national semifinalists (Pennsylvania winners). Steven Herbert Smith received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Baylor University and Master’s and D.M.A. degrees from The Eastman School of Music, as well as an Artist’s Diploma from the Mozarteum of Salzburg, Austria, where he was a Fulbright scholar. His teachers included Cécile Genhart and Kurt Neumüller.