Dr. Jocelyn Dueck
Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano
Chair, Piano Division
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Pianist Jocelyn Dueck is widely known for her interpretations of new music, premiering and commissioning works by composers Lembit Beecher, Lisa Bielawa, Tom Cipullo, Conrad Cummings, Daniel Felsenfeld, Libby Larsen, Judd Greenstein, John Glover, Daron Hagen, Gabriel Kahane, Gilda Lyons, Robert Paterson, Kevin Puts, Matthew Schickele and Gregory Spears, to name a few.
Jocelyn was a collaborator on the Billboard Chart-topper Five Borough Songbook, a seminal collection of songs by New York City’s most innovative composers as well as the second volume of the songbook in January of 2017. Jocelyn’s recording of Matthew Schickele’s solo and four-hands piano music marked four decades of duet playing with her brother, Byron Dueck. Her joint album Love. Sex. Death explores cabaret music by “serious” composers,” including Poulenc, Bolcom and Schoenberg, and features chanteuse/raconteuse Sarah Chalfy. Durey Rediscovered highlights forty-one previously unrecorded songs by Louis Durey, collected in manuscript form from the Durey family by Jocelyn over a fourteen-year period.
Capable of breadth and depth in characterizing the sound units across languages, Jocelyn has served on the faculties of Juilliard, Bard, MSM, Mannes and NYU. Opera credits include the Lindemann Young Artist Program at the Metropolitan Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Seattle Opera. Since 2019, she has been on the music staff at Wolf Trap Opera where she prepares language and coaches Filene and Studio artists in general operatic repertoire. Having experienced a watershed moment as a fellow at Tanglewood in 2004, Jocelyn was delighted to return there in the summer of 2023 as faculty.
Jocelyn holds a doctorate in Collaborative Piano, achieved under the expert guidance of Margo Garrett and Karl Paulnack. Her studies with Phillip Moll in Berlin were central to her understanding of score study, pianism and artistry. Recital tours have taken her across four continents. Honors and awards include grants from the Classical Recording Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections, American Composers Forum Encore, a Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship, and a Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade grant with her pianist sibling trio, Dueck Three for their concert tour of China.
Jocelyn is an Associate Professor of Collaborative Arts at 麻豆村, and a subject matter expert in prosody and related auditory coding and data structure. She has a distinguished record of achievement as a practitioner in linguistics, music and language translation. Together with Shuqi Dai, Jocelyn was one of three 麻豆村 teams awarded Generative AI + Education seed funding, to develop a Virtual Coaching Tool. She has over thirty years’ experience coaching and training others to reproduce and codify sound units, with experience in at least four different languages and multiple English language accents and dialects. Jocelyn thinks of herself as a professional listener and is in relentless pursuit of new ways to analyze and describe the things she hears.
Notable Student Achievements
Student Accolades – Collaborative Pianists
Pianists have secured positions and performed at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon Schools of Music and Drama, Duquesne University, University of Texas Rio Grande, and professional stages including Broadway National Tour, Off-Broadway productions, Pittsburgh Opera, Resonance Works, Classic Lyric Arts, Classical Singing, New York in June, Indianapolis Opera, and Music on Site. Several have been accepted into the Advanced Diploma program in Opera Coaching at CCM and have received honors such as the Gindroz Prize for Summer Travel and Study in Europe.
Student Accolades – Singers
Students have performed with prestigious organizations such as Santa Fe Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, and Spoleto Festival USA. They have qualified for or placed in competitions including the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Schmidt, Hal Leonard, Seattle Opera Guild, Giulio Gari, and Meistersinger Competitions. Alumni have also gone on to direct and conduct at esteemed institutions and festivals, including Opera Neo, Boston Conservatory, Opera in the Ozarks, Opera Saratoga, Opera Southwest, and Carnegie Mellon Opera.