Spring 2027

Masters Level Collaborative Piano

Masters-level individual instruction in collaborative musical performance, focusing on piano technique, aural skills, and communication with partners.

offering recorded2–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Deirdre Brenner

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=3 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify personal strengths and weaknesses as a collaborative artist and develop strategies to address problems

  • Employ advanced aural skills in investigating sound and balance with musical partners

  • Improve piano technique, stylistic awareness, interpretive decision-making and listening skills.

  • Describe performance practices across a range of musical styles

  • Improve sight-reading proficiency

  • Manage multiple musical assignments simultaneously

  • Demonstrate excellent communication skills in rehearsals, lessons and performance – both verbal and musical – with partners and faculty

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

Declared in Music: Performance MM

  • Declared in Music: Performance MM
MUSPERF 542

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  • Declared in Music: Performance MM

Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DEIRDRE BRENNER is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=3 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Collaborative musical performance
  • Performance practices across various musical styles
  • Self-assessment and problem-solving strategies for collaborative artists

Skills

  • Piano technique, stylistic awareness, interpretive decision-making, and listening skills
  • Advanced aural skills for investigating sound and balance with musical partners
  • Sight-reading proficiency
  • Verbal and musical communication skills in rehearsals, lessons, and performance

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2022— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
MUSPERF 542 · Spring 2027

Masters Level Collaborative Piano

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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