Dr. Peng Krol
DMA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Krol is an assistant professor of piano and the academic lead at Dalian Art College, China. She earned both the Artist Diploma and the Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, with the support of the Longford Fellowship and the full- scholarship at UIUC. Her doctoral project focused on the humorous dimensions of Beethoven’s piano variations, and her recent publications includes the article “The Whimsical Character of Beethoven’s Salieri Piano Variations” in Beethoven the European: Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception by BREPOLS. Her research has been applauded by Professor Kinderman of UCLA as “her study shed a revealing new light on these remarkable yet somewhat neglected works."
Dr. Krol has served as the coordinator and the principal instructor of the Piano Laboratory Program at UIUC, collaborative pianist at Carroll University (Wisconsin), and piano instructor at Harper College (IL).
