Kevin Purrone is an active performer, creative musician and teacher. As a soloist and collaborative artist, he travels throughout the United States and Europe, performing at Bruno Walter Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall (New York), Herculessaal (Munich), Concertgebouw "de doelen" Kleine Zaal (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Beethoven Hall (San Antonio), the Godbold Cultural Center (Lubbock), and at many universities and colleges in the United States.

He has also performed on the soundtracks for Ken Burn's "Coney Island" and for "Merchants and Masters" a Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) production. Recently, Kevin's facination with film music led him to create and record an improvised sound track to "The Man Haters," a silent movie produced in Indiana during the beginning of this century.

As a composer, Kevin writes music for a variety of instrumental and vocal combinations, including piano, percussion, acoustic and electronic ensembles, jazz ensemble and electronic media.

Dr. Purrone's research areas include creativity, teaching with multiple intelligences, improvisation as a pedagogical tool, and arts-integrated education. He served as a reaction panelist at the Arts Integrated Curriculum Conference with Harriet Major Fulbright, President, Center for the Arts in the Basic Curriculum (Washington, D.C.), where he was responsible for assessing and advising teacher participants who created units demonstrating arts-integrated approaches to learning.

A native of Connecticut, Kevin Purrone earned the Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts from Texas Tech University. He received his Masters degree from Indiana University in applied piano, where he regularly performed in the studios of Josef Gingold and Janos Starker, and is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), where he earned a Bachelor of Music in Theory (with distinction). He received a Graduate Summer Research Award (Texas Tech University) for work in computer algorithmic programming.

As a teacher, Kevin began giving music instruction while still a teenager. Since then, his teaching activities have taken him to the high schools of Bridgeport, Connecticut, to the University of New Haven, and to Texas Tech University.

Kevin Purrone is currently a member of the music faculty at Ball State University.

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