DR. ERICA RUMBLEY - PIANO

Dr. Erica Rumbley serves at the piano accompanist for the West Texas Symphony Chamber Chorale.

She recently came to the Midland-Odessa area, where she serves as an Associate Professor of Piano at Odessa College. Prior to moving to Texas, Dr. Rumbley has taught and served as a Collaborative Pianist in the United States and China.

Dr. Rumbley has published in the Journal of American Music and presented papers and lecture recitals at numerous College Music Society and American Musicological Society conferences. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century American music, as well as Chinese piano music and the composer Zhang Zhao. She is also beginning a study of the therapeutic uses of music with refugee and underprivileged populations.

As a pianist, Dr. Rumbley has performed widely as a collaborative artist and a soloist, and she takes great joy in the act of making music with others.