Dr. Elizabeth Grimpo, associate professor of music at Concordia University, Nebraska, was presented with the 2015 Outstanding Teaching Award at the university’s commencement ceremony on May 9.
The honor is given to a full-time faculty member who has been nominated by students and selected by a committee of students and faculty members who have previously received the award. The recipient’s name is not revealed until it is called during commencement.
Grimpo graduated from Concordia University-Chicago, magna cum laude, in 1999 with a degree in music education and a certificate in piano pedagogy. She was named student laureate of her graduating class.
Grimpo earned her Master of Music in 2001 and Doctor of Musical Arts in 2006 in piano performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2006, she won the graduate concerto competition, earning the opportunity to perform the first movement of Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto in G Minor with the UNL Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, Grimpo is associate professor of music at Concordia University, Nebraska, a position she has held since 2008. She is also playing an integral role in helping Concordia Nebraska become the first school in the state of Nebraska to offer a Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy (pending approval by AMTA and NASM).
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