Joanne Haroutounian composer / arranger

Joanne Haroutounian serves on the piano faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, where she oversees the university’s piano pedagogy program. Dr. Haroutounian combines her musical careers in performance, teaching, writing, editing and pedagogy with research in educational psychology and gifted/arts education. She presents workshops and master-classes internationally, and has frequently been a guest speaker at national MTNA conventions and other national pedagogy conferences.
More than twenty teaching publications written or edited by Dr. Haroutounian are offered through Kjos Music Co. These include Chamber Music Sampler, a set of three books of piano trios for intermediate to moderately advanced performers, and Explorations in Music, a comprehensive curriculum in theory, ear training, analysis, and creative composition. Her recent publication, Kindling the Spark: Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent, offered through Oxford University Press, provides information regarding perspectives of musical talent for teachers, parents, and pedagogy or music education students in college.

Dr. Haroutounian’s specialized interest in working with talented music students grew into research that led to the development of the MusicLink program, which provides long-term private instruction to promising students in financial need. She is currently the Director of the MusicLink Foundation, a non-profit organization that has brought music instruction to over 5,000 students across the country and parts of Canada over the past 20 years.