The Department of Music is proud to announce Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies Janet Scott Hoyt received the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award, and is nominated by the Faculty for the University-wide Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The award recognizes outstanding teaching contributions of faculty members, and is awarded annually in a faculty-wide competition, based on departmental nominations that include comments and evaluations from colleagues, present and former students, and external evaluators. Thanks are due to the Teaching and Learning Committee and its Chair, Debra Cairns, for their assistance in assembling this nomination. Congratulations, Janet!
About Janet:
Alberta-born pianist Janet Scott Hoyt is a performer and pedagogue with a wealth of experience on the concert stage and in the teaching studio. She studied at the University of Alberta with Robert Stangeland and completed her postgraduate studies there, supported by numerous scholarships and awards. Further studies were done in Europe with Cecile Genhart and at the Banff Centre with Gyorgy Sebok and Menahem Pressler.
A highly sought-after collaborative pianist, she has had a long association with the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 1995 she was nominated to lead the Collaborative Pianists Faculty there. During the course of her career, she has performed with many internationally renowned artists, including violinists Sydney Harth, Oskar Shumsky, flautists Robert Aiken and Jeanne Baxtresser, horn players Barry Tuckwell and David Hoyt, cellists Shauna Rolston, Tanya Prochazka and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. Among her many performances are premieres of works by composers such as Violet Archer, Srul Irving Glick, Malcolm Forsyth, and Oskar Morawetz.
Janet Scott Hoyt was named to the piano faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Alberta in 1998 where she now supervises a graduate program in piano pedagogy. She has also served as a faculty member for Augustana University College and the L.I.S. Summer School at the Hochschule Fur Musik in Detmold, Germany. She is in great demand as adjudicator, coach and workshop clinician.