Arthur Houle

Dr. Arthur Joseph Houle is founder and artistic director of the Festival for Creative Pianists [https://www.festivalforcreativepianists.org/about], a critically acclaimed virtuoso performer, a private teacher since the age of thirteen, and a published writer, composer, arranger, and editor. He was Director of Keyboard Studies and professor of music at Colorado Mesa University from 2006 to 2020. Prior to that, he taught at the Universities of Iowa, North Dakota and Texas-Austin, College of Idaho, the Dana Hall School of Music (Wellesley, MA), and the extension divisions of New England & Boston Conservatories. Currently he is professor emeritus and resides in Boise, Idaho.

Houle was Abundant Silence's 2015-16 Featured Composing Educator and recipient of five CMU Exemplary Faculty Awards, a 2011 MTNA Fellow Award, and, most recently, four Steinway & Sons Top Teacher Awards. His YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/@arthurjosephhoulepianist/videos] features over 150 posts of his stylistically varied recordings spanning a professional career of more than 4½ decades.