GRETCHEN A TANNER portrait
  • Director, Preparatory Division, School Of Music
  • Manage, the Director of UPOP, School Of Music
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, School Of Music

Education

  • Bachelor of Music , Piano Pedagogy, University of Utah
  • Master of Music, Piano Performance and Pedagogy, University of Houston

Biography

Gretchen A Tanner received a Bachelor of Music Degree with an emphasis on Piano Pedagogy from the University of Utah. She completed her Masters of Music Degree with emphasis on Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Houston.  Her teachers include: Janet Mann, Nancy Weems, Lenora Ford Brown and Reid Nibley.

Ms. Tanner has worked for the Preparatory Division at the University of Utah since 1997.  She worked as the Assistant Director for the majority of that time and was appointed as the Director of the Preparatory Division in 2010.  With a faculty of 27 teachers and over 300 students, the Preparatory Division offers classes in Piano, Strings, Guitar, Voice, Organ and a Children's Choir.  Ms. Tanner also teaches the Beginning Piano classes as well as private students for the Division.

Ms. Tanner has additional responsibilities as the instructor for the Piano Pedagogy Class at the School of Music. The Pedagogy course offers college students hands on teaching experience with 1st through 3rd graders.  She loves the challenge of teaching and enjoys working with the college students as they improve their skills.

She enjoys performing as part of the Little-Tanner Duo,  in the School of Music Piano Faculty Concerts and Temple Square Concert Series. She also accompanies local choirs and instrumentalists.

She is a member of the MTNA and Faculty advisor to the University of Utah Collegiate Chapter. She is an active adjudicator and presenter for the MTNA organization.  She is also a member of the Youth Arts Division. The Division strives to bring  the Arts into the lives of children through out the Salt Lake Valley

Ms. Tanner resides in Sandy with her husband and two daughters.  She loves any activity that has to do with the mountains and spending time with her family.