Janci Bronson

Dr. Janci Bronson serves as a Full Teaching Professor of Music at Iowa State University, where she teaches all the class piano courses to music majors (MUS 1270, 1280, 2270, 2280), Functional Piano Skills to Keyboard Majors (MUS 3270A), and Piano Pedagogy (MUS 4150B).

She earned a Ph.D. in Music Education, Piano Pedagogy emphasis, from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied with Drs. Jane Magrath, Barbara Fast, and Ed Gates. She holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, in Piano Performance from Kansas State University.

In 2021-2022, Dr. Bronson won two ISU Miller Open Education Mini-Grants to create “Instructional Videos for Class Piano Courses” to support her ISU students and the greater piano learning community. To honor these creative outputs, in 2023 she was named an ISU “Open Education Trailblazer.” Additionally, in 2018, Dr. Bronson was a recipient of ISU’s Outstanding Teaching by a Lecturer award.

Dr. Bronson is an active leader within the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), being named a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM). She currently serves as the faculty advisor for the newly formed ISU MTNA Collegiate chapter, IMTA State Collegiate Chapter Chair, and the Music Teachers of Central Iowa local Treasurer. Previously she served as the IMTA State President and State Technology chair, where she wrote articles published in the Iowa Music Teacher magazine.

In 2016-2017, Dr. Bronson was chosen as the IMTA State Certified Teacher of the Year and received the 2017 IMTA State Distinguished Service award. She chaired the 2017 IMTA state conference planning committee, hosted at ISU. Previously, she served as the University of Oklahoma MTNA chapter President when they won the MTNA-Benjamin Whitten National Collegiate Chapter of the Year award. As an undergraduate, she served as the Kansas State University MTNA collegiate chapter President.

She frequently serves as an invited adjudicator and clinician for other universities, state MTNA conferences, state Pedagogy Workshops, and local music teacher groups. Additionally, Dr. Bronson maintains a successful private piano studio of beginners through advanced students. Her students win district and state performance competitions and have been accepted into prestigious undergraduate and graduate piano programs.