Dr. Leon Harshenin

Taylor University

Associate Professor of Piano and

Coordinator of Piano Studies

tel. 765-998-5230

BIO:

Dr. Leon Harshenin, a native of Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada), is

currently serving at Taylor University in his tenth year, as Associate

Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Piano Studies.  Dr. Harshenin

received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance

in 1984 and 1985 respectively from the Juilliard School in New York,

studying with Beveridge Webster, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree

in Piano Performance and Pedagogy in 1998 from the University of

Michigan, where he studied under Louis Nagel.

From 1989 to 1994 Dr. Harshenin taught piano and music theory in

Ontario, Canada independently and at Redeemer College. He has also been

an instructor at the Interlochen All-State Piano Program in Michigan and

a guest lecturer in piano at Wheaton College. While a graduate student

instructor at the University of Michigan, he received the Joanne A.

Smith Pedagogy Award for outstanding teaching.  

Since arriving in Indiana, Dr. Harshenin has been much in demand as a

piano competition adjudicator, and is currently state coordinator of the

Music Teachers National Association Junior High Performance Competition.

He has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the Midwest,

California, New York, western Canada, Ontario, Switzerland, Austria,

Italy and Ecuador. In March 2003, he performed Beethoven's Choral

Fantasy with the Marion Philharmonic Orchestra and Taylor University

Chorale, and performed Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with the MPO

this March.