Music

Mary Heiden

Title: Adjunct Lecturer, Music History
Department: Music

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Musicology, Earlly Music Performance emphasis, University of North Texas
• Piano Performance, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
• Piano Performance, Stephen F. Austin State University

Biography

Dr. MARY HEIDEN is a musicologist with keyboard specialties in piano and harpsichord. A native of Wisconsin, she earned degrees in piano performance from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music and Stephen F. Austin State University, where she was named outstanding recitalist. Her Ph.D. is in Musicology from the University of North Texas with an emphasis in Early Music Performance. While at UNT, Mary was program annotator for the university orchestras, a Teaching Fellow in harpsichord, accompanist for the Collegium Singers, and played continuo with the Baroque Orchestra. Additional study has included choral conducting and vocal performance.

Dr. Heiden retired from Kilgore College where she served as Chair of the Music and Dance Department and Director of Choral Activities. During her tenure at KC, she taught piano, voice, theory, and music literature. She has also taught courses in music history, literature, and appreciation at UNT, Texas A & M University-Commerce, and Weatherford College. While at WC, she was vocal coach for their Opera Workshop and was named “Outstanding Pianist” by the DFW chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Dr. Heiden has performed extensively as a collaborative keyboard artist, both on piano and harpsichord. Her doctoral dissertation centered on the Fitzwilliam Collection at Cambridge University in England and her research interest specializes in eighteenth-century music, especially the transition from the harpsichord to the piano.