DR. JOSHUA VIGRAN is a classical music teacher, performer, and online music creator who performs and teaches throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Vigran has been teaching professionally for over twenty years. When requested, he prepares his students for competitions and college admission. Several of his piano students have won scholarships and awards at local and state levels in California, New York, Texas, and Alaska. Additionally, the students he has tutored online for the Royal College of Music theory exams have received high marks and scholarships.

As a collaborative pianist, Dr. Vigran has worked with the UAF Summer Music Academy, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, Northland Center for Choral Arts, University of North Texas, Vox Aquilae and Fantasmi early music ensembles, Parker University, Choirs of America, Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, the Red Door Chamber Players, Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University Long Beach, and Antelope Valley College. Dr. Vigran continues to perform in many public and private venues, more recently in Alaska. In the past, he performed in numerous venues in California, toured in Brazil as a harpsichordist, and gave masterclasses at California State University, Long Beach.

Piano technique, musical arrangement and improvisation are key focuses for Dr. Vigran, who wrote his dissertation on the topic of improvisation for classical pianists. In 2019 he was sponsored to make a series of YouTube videos providing musical and pianistic analysis for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor. This eventually led to the creation of his single piano arrangement. Documentation of the progress of this arrangement along with tutorials and additional projects can be found at Dr. Vigran’s Patreon @josh.v.music.

Dr. Vigran graduated in 2020 from the University of North Texas with a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance. He holds a Master of Music from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and a Bachelor of Music from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. His former teachers include Dr. Nina Lelchuk, Gustavo Romero, and Dr. Valentina Gottlieb. He previously served as the Term Instructor of Piano at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was the Professor of Music Appreciation at Parker University in Dallas. He currently serves as the Director of Music at Zion Lutheran Church in Fairbanks and is the accompanist for the Northland Center for Choral Arts. He and his wife, Sunny, maintain a private teaching practice in Fairbanks instructing students in person and online across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Follow Dr. Vigran @josh.v.music.