Dr. Carlyn G. Morenus
Professor of Piano
School of Music
College of Fine Arts
Illinois State University

Cook Hall 204
Campus Box 5660 
Normal, Illinois 61790-5660
(309) 438-3470 (office)
email: cgmoren@ilstu.edu
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Biographical Information

Carlyn Morenus is Professor of Piano and Keyboard Area Coordinator at Illinois State University, where she has taught since 1999. She teaches group piano, piano pedagogy, individual instruction in piano and organ, and piano literature. While completing doctoral studies at The University of Texas at Austin from 1996-1999, she was an Assistant Instructor teaching group piano courses for music majors and non-majors. From 1990-1995 Dr. Morenus served on the Vincennes University (Indiana) faculty as Assistant Professor of Piano, where she taught studio and group piano, organ, keyboard chamber music, and other music courses. In addition to numerous recitals at the university and around the city of Vincennes, she presented annual duo-piano recitals at Vincennes University and elsewhere in Indiana with California-based piano partner Marc Steiner.

Carlyn Morenus maintains an active performing schedule as a solo pianist, collaborative pianist and chamber musician. She has concertized in Malaysia, Thailand, Italy, Austria and Slovakia, as well as giving recitals and masterclasses throughout the United States.

Dr. Morenus holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Pedagogy from The University of Texas where her principal teachers were Martha Hilley, Sophia Gilmson and Lita Guerra. Influential teachers in music education included Robert Duke, John Geringer and Judith Jellison. She holds a Master of Music in Applied Piano from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied with Howard Karp, and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California, studying with Robert Ward. Other influential teachers have included Dorothy Judy Klein, Malcolm Hamilton and Jean Barr.

Along with her piano activities, Dr. Morenus has continued her life-long interests in organ and singing. She has sung with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Roger Wagner Chorale, and for several years was a member of the New Texas Festival Conspirare Choir and the Victoria (Texas) Bach Festival Choir. Dr. Morenus has held church organist positions in California, Wisconsin, Indiana and Texas, and she is currently a free-lance organist.

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