Dr. Deborah Clasquin is a Professor of Music and senior member of the keyboard area at Humboldt State University, where she teaches studio piano, piano performance seminar, piano pedagogy, accompanying and Music History.

Dr. Clasquin enjoys an active career as an orchestral soloist, as well as recitalist and chamber musician, and has appeared in recital in Paris, Moscow, Kiev, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C. and throughout Northern California. Numerous awards and prizes have marked her performing career, including a gold medal at the International Piano Recording Competition and second prize at the International Bartok Competition. Her interpretations of French Impressionist composers have brought critical acclaim. Her concerts have been broadcast by cable television and National Public Radio's "Performance Today" from the nation's capital.

As a teacher, Dr. Clasquin has been invited to present piano master classes in Paris, Moscow and Kiev. She has served as adjudicator at California Professional Music Teacher's Association state conventions. For ten years, she was the Director of Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop, a program which attracts talented young musicians and music teachers to the Humboldt State University campus each summer.

Dr. Clasquin holds degrees from Smith College, New England Conservatory of Music and a Doctorate in Piano Performance from Indiana University, where she studied with Menahem Pressler, pianist of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio.

Her students have won numerous competitions, including the gold medal in
both the Senior and Concert Artist divisions of the Magin International
Competition in Paris, France, silver medals at the Virginia Waring
Competition, as well as an appearance on NPR's "From the Top".

Dr. Clasquin has presented master classes at both the Gnessin
Conserevatory of Music in Moscow and the Kiev Conservatory in the Ukraine. Most recently, she served as adjudicator for the MTAC Young Artist competition with Stewart Gordon. This February, she will be delivering a lecture/demonstration at the 2006 CAPMT state conference.