Ithaca College

The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host Ithaca College Community Artists each Friday at 5pm. In a mere 15-20 minutes, learn what our community brings to the arts, and the invariable ways art invigorates our lives. This week’s guest is John Parsons.

To gain the Zoom link, send a message to Gordon Rowland (rowland@ithaca.edu).

John Parsons is Assistant Professor of Music Education. He completed his PhD in Music and Human Learning from The University of Texas at Austin. While at UT Austin, he taught undergraduate courses in woodwind and brass instrumental methods and served as a field supervisor for student teachers. Prior to his graduate work, John was a band director in the Austin area for 10 years, teaching a wide array of students and ensembles, including wind ensembles, orchestras, marching band and jazz ensembles. John has his Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in Music and Human Learning from UT Austin. His research in music education is centered on the effects of attentional focus on motor performance. More recently, he has begun to explore how undergraduate music students studying secondary instruments focus their attention on differing aspects of performance during self-directed practice in the context of online learning. John has co-authored and presented work at the Clifford K. Madsen International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior, the National Association for Music Education and Texas Music Educators Association annual conferences.