Janet Landreth

Dr. Janet Landreth, Professor Emerita of Piano and Keyboard Area Coordinator at Colorado State University, is Founder and Executive Director of the International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival, U.S.A., a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado that produces an international competition for pianists in four age groups (solo and concerto) each summer along with a six-day festival featuring masterclasses, presentations, and evening concerts by world-renowned guest artists.

Dr. Landreth combines an active career as an artist-teacher, performer, and administrator with international research and travel. She has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she studied the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos at the Museu Villa Lobos, and in London, England studying Alexander Technique. The recipient of numerous performance awards, she has given recitals and master classes and/or presented her research in France, Spain, Brazil, Bolivia, Italy, China, South Korea and the U.S. She has appeared as a guest in the Deià International Music Festival at Son Marroig in Mallorca, Spain, the III International Latin American Piano Music Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the 1st International Villa-Lobos Conference in Paris, France. Janet studied with Jeanne-Marie Darré and Pierre Barbizet at the Académie Internationale d'Eté in Nice, France; John Perry at the Aspen Music Festival & School; Busoni winner, Aldo Mancinelli at the University of Tulsa; and MTNA President, Cecilia Mae Bryant at the University of Oklahoma. Janet retired as Professor Emerita in 2019 after 44 years of teaching at Colorado State University where she was known as a gifted artist-teacher whose students won numerous competitions and awards, including ten that performed as soloists with the Denver (Colorado) Symphony.

Dr. Landreth was inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame in New York City in October of 2019 and in December of 2019 she performed the Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto with the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra in Changwon, South Korea. 2021 marks the 10th Anniversary of the International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival, U.S.A. which she founded in 2012.