Cullam Olsen is a doctoral student in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Kansas, where he taught piano courses as a graduate teaching assistant for two years and served as coordinator of the piano area. He has received many honors and prizes including runner-up at the Missouri Music Teachers Association Collegiate Audition, the Friends of Music Scholarship, the Robert Clinton Cope III Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Scholarship, the Tom Chaney Memorial Scholarship, the Peter Collins Piano Scholarship, the Maria Content Wise Memorial Scholarship, and the Dvorak Graduate Piano Scholarship.
His current research interests include implementing popular music into traditional piano pedagogy, an exploration into different modes of physically approaching piano playing, and injury prevention.
Cullam has taught a broad range of ages and in locations all over the world, including South Korea and China. In his spare time, Cullam enjoys studying philosophy and playing with his dog, Zelda.
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