Dr. Rosa LoGiudice
Dr. Rosa LoGiudice De La Cruz is a dynamic performer and piano instructor. She collaborates frequently with professional instrumentalists and singers on recording and performance projects in the greater Phoenix area, and with her husband, Dr. Nathaniel De La Cruz, a professional double bass soloist. Their duo has won first prize in several competitions, including the Charleston International Competition in the duo category recently in 2023 and the instrumental category in 2020, and first place in the National Young Artists Competition with the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra of Idaho in January 2020. Dr. LoGiudice frequently premieres new music in Arizona, recently premiering two new works at a duo recital with her husband at Hammer & Strings Conservatory in April 2023, where they premiered a new concerto for double bass by Argentine composer Mauricio Annunziata inspired by Andean folk music, and a suite for bass and piano by local composer and educator Dr. William Clay, inspired by a musical depiction of an earthquake in Peru in 2007.
LoGiudice holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in piano performance from Hunter College, CUNY in New York, New York, where her primary teachers were John Bloomfield and Dorothy Taubman and a Master of Music in collaborative piano from University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied with professional collaborative pianist and professor Robert Koenig. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in collaborative piano from Arizona State University under the tutelage of Dr. Andrew Campbell. During her entire college career, in addition to studying and performing solo repertoire, she worked with instrumentalists and singers in their lessons and performances, rehearsed and performed with university choirs, wind ensembles, and orchestras, and worked with composition students in premiering new works for studio recitals. She also collaborated with the Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble from 2017-2022 performing in diverse new music chamber ensembles.
Dr. LoGiudice has over 20 years of teaching experience. She began teaching at Andy’s Family Music Center in Livingston, New Jersey teaching traditional and Suzuki piano lessons while earning her Bachelor’s Degree at Hunter College. She taught varying ages and levels, and her students participated in twice yearly recitals. Dr. LoGiudice received Suzuki teacher training for all seven levels, and incorporates philosophies of the Suzuki method in her teaching without being exclusively influenced by it. Dr. LoGiudice established her own private teaching studio in Thousand Oaks, California after graduating from Hunter College where she taught all ages and levels from four years old to adult students. Her students participated in the Southern California Junior Bach festival, and in the Certificate of Merit program for theory and performance evaluations where many received honors. Upon moving to Arizona in 2016 to pursue her doctorate in collaborative piano at Arizona State University Dr. LoGiudice began teaching at East Valley School of Music in Chandler, where she taught from 2016-2023. She taught levels beginning to advanced, from ages five to adult. Her students have participated in the Arizona Study Program playing evaluations and theory testing where they frequently receive the highest honors, and in the EVMTA, Jason Sipes, and MTNA competitions. Dr. LoGiudice is committed to teaching and helping students find their own passion for music. Her goal is to inspire her students to discover the joy of performing both as soloists and with other musicians.