Gray School of Music, Musikgarten Piano Faculty, Teacher

Dr. Juliette Gray Flanagin graduated Cum Laude from the Hockaday School and earned Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees in Applied Piano from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from theUniversity of Texas at Austin. Her teachers include Nancy Garrett, Fernando Laires, Anton Nel, Dr. Donna O’Steen Edwards, and Tong-il Han. She has performed in master classes with Malcolm Bilson, Rebecca Penneys, and Peter Tackas. She first began playing the piano at age 4 and performed her debut solo recital at age 15. An active performer, she has played numerous solo, chamber, and collaborative recitals throughout the United States, was a guest recital soloist at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas and was featured as a guest recitalist at the Mu Phi Epsilon Library Series and the Salon concerts in Dallas and at the Central Arts Series at Central Presbyterian Church in Waxahachie, Texas. She has served as staff vocal accompanist at Dallas Baptist University. She also accompanied for the Dallas based choral ensemble Sacred Song and has performed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Italy and the Dallas area with the ensemble. In addition to solo and ensemble work, Dr. Flanagin also freelances as a vocal and instrumental collaborative artist and is an active adjudicator for area piano festivals.

Dr. Flanagin has been teaching private, partner, and group lessons for almost 20 years, maintaining a private studio in Dallas,Texas, Austin, Texas, and Rochester, New York. She studied piano pedagogy with Tony Caramia at the Eastman School of Music and Martha Hilley and Sophia Gilmson at the University of Texas at Austin. Her pupils range from age 4 to adult and she has had winners in the Dallas Jazz Festival and TMTA Composition Competition. She taught group piano class at the University of Texas at Austin, served as an assistant teacher at the UT High School Piano Camp, and maintained a studio at the Gray School of Music. An award winning teacher, she received the Texas Excellence in Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants for her instruction of class piano at the University of Texas at Austin. Active in a variety of organizations, Dr. Flanagin was one of the founding members of the Hockaday orchestra, served as President of the Mu Phi Epsilon Fraternity at the Eastman School of Music, represented the Eastman Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon at their national convention and served as the President of the MTNA chapter at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Flanagin also led a group presentation on the format of studio performance class at the MTNA National Convention in Minneapolis. Dr. Flanagin began teaching early childhood music in 2003 where she joined the staff of Park Cities Baptist Church to lead the Musikgarten sacred curriculum for two-year olds. Currently, Dr. Flanagin maintains a private piano studio and is an active adjudicator and performer in the Dallas area. She joins the Gray School of Music in 2009 as a Musikgarten teacher. She lives in the Dallas area with her husband, Lewis, and three children, Brendan, Jeremy and Sarah.