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Dr. Janet Landreth combines an active career as an artist-teacher, performer, and administrator with international research and travel. She has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she studied the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos at the Museu Villa Lobos and in London, England, studying the Alexander Technique. The recipient of numerous performance awards, she has given recitals and master classes and/or presented her research in France, Spain, Brazil, Bolivia, Italy, China, South Korea and the U.S. She has appeared as a guest in the Deià International Music Festival at Son Marroig in Mallorca, Spain, the III International Latin American Piano Music Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the 1st International Villa-Lobos Conference in Paris, France. Janet studied with Jeanne-Marie Darré and Pierre Barbizet at the Académie Internationale d'Eté in Nice, France; John Perry at the Aspen Music Festival & School; Busoni winner Aldo Mancinelli at the University of Tulsa; and MTNA President Cecilia Mae Bryant at the University of Oklahoma. Janet retired as Professor Emerita in 2019 after 44 years of teaching at Colorado State University, where she was known as a gifted artist-teacher whose students won numerous competitions and awards, including ten that performed as soloists with the Denver (Colorado) Symphony.

Dr. Landreth was inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame in New York City in 2019 and performed the Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto with the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra in Changwon, South Korea the same year. The International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival, U.S.A., was founded in 2012.