Julie Gosswiller Adjunct Instructor Aural Skills, Keyboard Skills 139 Howard Hall Tel: 994-5758 jgosswiller@gmail.com

Julie Gosswiller is an adjunct instructor in aural and keyboard skills as well as a collaborative pianist at Montana State University. An active chamber musician, she frequently collaborates with colleagues Elizabeth Croy, Johan Jonsson and Ilse-Mari Lee. She and Croy were a featured duo on the Emmy-award winning series, 11th and Grant with Eric Funk, which aired on Montana PBS during the 2005 season. The duo also won numerous awards in the 2002 Cyber Sing Art Song Competition, including the Nancy Babcock award for best pianist. In addition, they have released their first CD which received rave reviews in the Journal of Singing. In 2002, Croy and Gosswiller were one of 10 teams chosen nationally to participate in the Cleveland Art Song Festival. Ms. Gosswiller has also collaborated with famed artists, Jonathan Cohler, clarinet, the Dallas Brass, soprano, Hyunah Yu and Mike Reynolds of the Muir String Quartet. In June of 2006, Ms. Gosswiller was a featured guest with the newly formed Meritage String Quartet and will be heard in concert with them at the Pilgrim Concert Series in Bozeman and again in Helena this fall. Ms. Gosswiller has been a student coach-accompanist at the Aspen Music Festival and has served as accompanist for the Colorado Childrens' Chorale, Young Musicians' Foundation, Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and Bozeman's Intermountain Opera. She also maintains an active piano studio. Her students have won first place in the elementary, junior and senior high school Montana Music Teachers' Association Competition as well as gold medals in the Spokane Allied Arts Festival. She holds a BM degree from University of Idaho and a MM degree in piano performance from the University of Colorado. Influential teachers and coaches include Angela Cheng, Doris Lehnert, Robert Spillman, Warren Jones, Stephen Blier and Martin Isepp.

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