 Brad Beckman is originally from Harvard, Illinois, and received his bachelor of music degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1986. While at IWU Dr. Beckman received numerous competitive scholarships, was Honors Recitalist, and was selected for Pi Kappa Lambda membership. Continued study with Joseph Banowetz brought Dr. Beckman to the University of North Texas in 1986 where he earned both a master of music degree and a doctor of music degree in Piano. While at UNT Dr. Beckman held a competitive Teaching Fellowship in Piano and received the Mary M. Morgan Dissertation Award for Excellence in Music Performance for his work on Ronald Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH. Dr. Beckman is currently Lecturer in Piano at the University of North Texas where he teaches Piano Pedagogy, Keyboard Skills classes and is faculty advisor for the UNT/TMTA Collegiate Student Chapter. He also maintains a private studio at the Hockaday School in Dallas. Dr. Beckman has performed throughout the Midwest, is a frequent adjudicator and has contributed to Keyboard Companion Magazine regarding the teaching of adult students. He has been active in Texas Music Teachers Association as Presenter, Performance Contest Coordinator, Appointed Director, past President of the Plano Music Teachers Association and currently as a member of the Executive Board for TMTA.
Dr. Beckman is a frequent performer throughout the Midwest and has performed at the State Department in Washington, D.C., as part of the State of the Arts concert series where his playing was described as "sensitive, well constructed and erupting in a flood of emotions..." State Magazine, Washington, D.C. He also performs regularly with two-piano partner, Dr. Carolyn True of Trinity University. Dr. Beckman is a member of the Ronald Stevenson Society, College Music Society and the American Liszt Society.
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