Gjergji Gaqi, piano
Equally at home in solo and collaborative music, pianist Gjergji Gaqi maintains an active performing career throughout North America and Europe. Together with his brother and accomplished pianist, Piro Gaqi, through the Gaqi Piano Duo, they have brought the varied, folk-inspired piano duo repertoire of Europe and North
America to audiences of both continents. Gaqi’s latest pedagogical research on various topics has brought him to present sessions at the Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri and Virginia Music Teachers Association conferences.
Dr. Gaqi studied piano and chamber music at the International School of Chamber Music "Trio di Trieste" in Duino (Italy), while completing the bilingual International Baccalaureate diploma. He was a winner of the Colby Concerto Competition and a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Colby College with a major in Music and a minor in Economics. As a Walgreen scholar, Gaqi received his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with additional studies in chamber music and jazz piano. Dr. Gaqi is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, with previous appointments at Tyler Junior College, Siena Heights University, College of the Mainland and Brazosport College. He is currently the Composition Competition Coordinator for the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association, having formerly served as president of the East Texas Music Teachers Association and chair of the ETMTA Helen Elbert Collaborative Music Festival. In addition to being a sought-after masterclass clinician and adjudicator, Mr. Gaqi is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Settenote Online Piano International Competition
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