Jim Bob Floyd
JB Floyd '' is an American concert pianist, composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. Before retiring in 2013, Floyd had spent 64 years as a music educator in higher education, notably as Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at Northern Illinois University from 1962 to 1981 and Chairman of Keyboard Performance at the University of Miami Frost School of Music from 1982 to 2013. Floyd is a Yamaha Artist.Career
Floyd earned a Bachelor of Music in 1948 and a Master of Music in 1950 from the University of North Texas. While at North Texas, he studied piano with Isabel and Silvio Scionti.
In the 1950s, at the University of Corpus Christi, Floyd became head of the Department of Music, then Chairman of the Fine Arts Division. In Fall 1949, Floyd joined the music faculty of the University of Kentucky as piano instructor. He also served on the music faculty of Sam Houston State University.
Floyd went on to earn a DMA in 1961 from Indiana University.
In 1962, Floyd joined the music faculty at the University of Northern Illinois. In 1981, Floyd joined the faculty at the University of Miami. He taught there for 32 years, retiring as Chair Emeritus in 2013 while serving as Chair of the Department of Keyboard Performance.Selected discography
- Another Time And Place, Mutable Music ;
- In Crossing The Busy Street, Mutable Music ;
- A Transporting Transmittance, Mutable Music ;
- Suitable for Framing David Rosenboom, JB Floyd & Trichy Sankaran, Mutable Music
- Salvatore Martirano: "O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag;
- Vol. 18, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age–III"
- Vol. 19, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age-IV: A Larry Austin Retrospective," Centaur Records ;
Selected publications
- "Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 111 In Its Historical Perspective", by James Robert Floyd, University of North Texas, College of Music ;
- "The keyboard music of Pergolesi" , by James Robert Floyd, Indiana University Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music ;
