Born in Mexico, Dr. Desireé González-Miller, NCTM, enjoys a musical career that has brought her to different concert venues and musical institutions across Mexico, United States of America, and Europe.
Desireé is an award-winning pianist and teacher. She has won top prizes in the Parnassós National Piano Competition, the American Protegé International Piano
Competition (including a performance in Carnegie Hall), and the Young Virtuosos UANL
and Summer Arts Piano Competitions. She received the Reid Nibley Scholar award twice while studying at Brigham Young University (BYU). Most recently, she was given the 2015 Janet Mann Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Utah, and the 2014 Student Teacher of the Year Award by the Utah Music Teachers’ Association.
She has performed in master classes with internationally renowned concert pianists and pedagogues such as Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Mirian Conti, Dmitry Rachmanov, Nancy Weems, Arthur Greene, Logan Skelton, Nelita True, Arkady Aronov, Yaron Kohlberg, Leonel Morales, Anna Bogolyubova, Alexander Pashkov, and Jorge Federico Osorio, just to name a few.
Her academic research and pedagogical interests have led to numerous presentations at local, state, national, and international piano conferences. She has presented at the International Society for Music Education World Conference in Glasgow, Scotland,
the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy National Conference in Chicago, IL, the Music Teachers National Association National Conferences, and at the National Symposium of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Michigan, Cincinnati College- Conservatory, Southern Methodist University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Texas at Austin. Desireé's artistic and educational activities have been further supported by grants and scholarships by the University of Utah College of Fine Arts, Brigham Young University, Utah Music Teachers Association, the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, and the Arts Council of Monterrey, México. The Office of Research and Creative Activities at BYU sponsored her to research the piano repertoire of the Mexican composer Manuel M. Ponce.
Desireé holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University where she studied with Dr. Jeffrey Shumway and Dr. Scott Holden. Dr. González-Miller graduated from the University of Utah with Doctorate in Musical Arts in Piano Performance and a related field in Musicology under the tutelage of Dr. Vedrana Subotic.
Dr. González-Miller is currently a Visiting Piano Professor at Brigham Young University, where she has an undergraduate piano studio. She also teaches Piano Pedagogy, Piano Literature, Chamber Music, and Survey of the Great Pianists. She also serves as the advisor of the BYU MTNA Collegiate Chapter.
Desireé is an award-winning pianist and teacher. She has won top prizes in the Parnassós National Piano Competition, the American Protegé International Piano
Competition (including a performance in Carnegie Hall), and the Young Virtuosos UANL
and Summer Arts Piano Competitions. She received the Reid Nibley Scholar award twice while studying at Brigham Young University (BYU). Most recently, she was given the 2015 Janet Mann Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Utah, and the 2014 Student Teacher of the Year Award by the Utah Music Teachers’ Association.
She has performed in master classes with internationally renowned concert pianists and pedagogues such as Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Mirian Conti, Dmitry Rachmanov, Nancy Weems, Arthur Greene, Logan Skelton, Nelita True, Arkady Aronov, Yaron Kohlberg, Leonel Morales, Anna Bogolyubova, Alexander Pashkov, and Jorge Federico Osorio, just to name a few.
Her academic research and pedagogical interests have led to numerous presentations at local, state, national, and international piano conferences. She has presented at the International Society for Music Education World Conference in Glasgow, Scotland,
the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy National Conference in Chicago, IL, the Music Teachers National Association National Conferences, and at the National Symposium of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Michigan, Cincinnati College- Conservatory, Southern Methodist University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Texas at Austin. Desireé's artistic and educational activities have been further supported by grants and scholarships by the University of Utah College of Fine Arts, Brigham Young University, Utah Music Teachers Association, the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, and the Arts Council of Monterrey, México. The Office of Research and Creative Activities at BYU sponsored her to research the piano repertoire of the Mexican composer Manuel M. Ponce.
Desireé holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University where she studied with Dr. Jeffrey Shumway and Dr. Scott Holden. Dr. González-Miller graduated from the University of Utah with Doctorate in Musical Arts in Piano Performance and a related field in Musicology under the tutelage of Dr. Vedrana Subotic.
Dr. González-Miller is currently a Visiting Piano Professor at Brigham Young University, where she has an undergraduate piano studio. She also teaches Piano Pedagogy, Piano Literature, Chamber Music, and Survey of the Great Pianists. She also serves as the advisor of the BYU MTNA Collegiate Chapter.
