Paul C. Pollei, United States

Paul Pollei is Founder and Artistic Director of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a graduate of the University of Utah, Eastman School of Music and Florida State University. Following forty years of teaching, he recently retired from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where he was Professor of Graduate Keyboard Studies and a member of the piano faculty.

Pollei is also founder and member of the American Piano Quartet, devoted to research, performance and re-publication of music for two pianos/eight hands. An active recitalist, lecturer and teacher to many prize-winning students, Dr. Pollei has served as a board member of the National Piano Foundation where he was chairman of National Master Classes. He often writes about the issues of piano pedagogy and piano training for national and international professional journals and is very active in the work of the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, the Music Teachers National Association and the World Federation of International Music Competitions. In addition, he served as founding music faculty member and then became advisor for the music faculty at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah, and has served on the advisory boards of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the United Nations International Education Board.

Dr Pollei has been a jury member for many national and international competitions in more than 40 countries and throughout the United States.