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Richard Seiler, a native of Brevard, North Carolina, is an associate professor and Keyboard Chair in the Division of Music in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Dr. Seiler teaches piano, piano literature, and music theory. He holds performance degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (BM), Illinois State University (MM), and Louisiana State University (DMA). His teachers included Peter Paciencia, Robert Blocker, Joseph DiPiazza, Gellert Modos, and Jack Guerry. As a student for three summers at the Brevard Music Center Festival, he studied with Anthony Sirianni. A Fazioli artist, Seiler has taught masterclasses and performed as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. He has been a featured soloist with orchestras in North Carolina, Illinois, and Louisiana, including the LSU Symphony in a performance of the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto. He has recorded for Centaur Records and is a National Patron of Delta Omicron and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, American Guild of Organists, and Music Teachers National Association. Seiler tours frequently with ULM faculty ensembles including the Ouachita Trio, Duo D'Arbonne, and the Lunte/Seiler Duo, having performed at the 1999 and 2002 National Flute Association conventions in Atlanta and Washington D.C., the 2001 and 2005 International Clarinet Association conventions in New Orleans and Tokyo, the 2002 Mid-South Flute Society conference, four College Music Society-Southern Chapter conferences, four International Horn Society-Southeast Division workshops, and the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. He served on the guest artist faculty in Summer 2006 at the week-long International Music Festival in Yantai, China. He is listed on the Louisiana Division of the Arts Touring and Artist Roster and is also a member of The Louisiana Trio, which was awarded a $20,000 Challenge America grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, through the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Seiler and Sandra Lunte (flute and piano duo) won the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council's 2007 Artist of the Year Award. Dr. Seiler also serves as organist/choirmaster at Grace Church in Monroe.

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Office Location: Biedenharn 206

Phone: 318-342-1571

Email: seiler@ulm.edu