Kimberley
Croft has been playing the piano, singing and
loving music of all kinds since the age of six. Discovering a love of
performance as a young piano student, she participated in all the festivals,
contests, recitals, local and nation guilds associated with the Dallas
Music Teachers Association, who awarded her a generous scholarship to
pursue her musical studies after high school. The highlight of her young
musical life was attending the beautiful Rocky Ridge Music Center—near
Estes Park, Colorado—each summer. Rocky Ridge was enriching experience
which culminated in serving as a counselor there during her teenage years.
Kimberley received her Bachelor and Masters’ degrees in Piano Performance from the School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Professor David Renner. While there she was honored to attend the undergraduate and graduate piano pedagogy courses of Sophia Gilmson, under whom she gave her first solo piano lessons. After her Master’s recital and thesis, she spent an adventurous and experimental year teaching music in an AISD elementary school, during which time she earned her certification to teach music in public schools from Huston-Tillotson College in east Austin.
She is overjoyed to be teaching at Clavier-Werke School of Music and thoroughly delights in all the musical journeys of her thirty-five current students there. She plans to continue performing with a focus on her love for the unique genre of solo piano music from Spanish-speaking countries. She passionately believes that studying music with effort and discipline creates a more intelligent and creative individual with a broader, richer outlook on life.