Spring 2027

Doctoral Level Collaborative Piano

Doctoral-level individual instruction in collaborative piano performance, focusing on developing the student as a collaborative artist through advanced technique, aural skills, and communication.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Deirdre Brenner

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=2 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

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Music: Performance DMA

  • Declared in Music: Performance DMA
MUSPERF 742

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  • Declared in Music: Performance DMA

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 — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Collaborative piano performance
  • Aural skills and sound balance
  • Piano technique and interpretation
  • Performance practices across styles
  • Musical and verbal communication

Skills

  • Collaborative piano performance and artistic development
  • Advanced aural skills for sound and balance
  • Piano technique, stylistic awareness, and interpretive decision-making
  • Performance practices across musical styles
  • Sight-reading proficiency
  • Managing multiple musical assignments
  • Verbal and musical communication with partners and faculty

Grades

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

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Selected offering source records
MUSPERF 742 · Spring 2027

Doctoral Level Collaborative Piano

Recorded 2026-10-14
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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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