Meet Your Faculty

Nationally and internationally known Ithaca College piano faculty members provide daily lessons, workshops, classes, and supervised practice for participants.

Charis Dimaras

Professor, Music Performance
Specialty: Piano & Collaborative Studies

Deborah Martin

Professor, Music Performance
Specialty: Piano Pedagogy

Diane Birr

Professor, Music Performance
Specialty: Collaborative Piano (MM degree Coordinator); Secondary Piano

Dmitri Novgorodsky

Associate Professor, Music Performance
Specialty: Piano, Piano Literature, Piano Ensemble

John White

Associate Professor, Music Theory, History Composition
Specialty: Music Theory

Susan Avery

Lecturer, Music Education

Vadim Serebryany

Associate Professor, Music Performance
Specialty: piano