Teaches in Northern Los Angeles

From Panorama City, California

Plays Piano, and Voice

About

Dr. Rosa LoGiudice De La Cruz is a dynamic performer and piano instructor. She collaborates frequently with professional instrumentalists and singers on recording and performance projects in the greater Los Angeles area and previously in Phoenix, AZ from where she recently relocated to Los Angeles. She also collaborates frequently with her husband, Dr. Nathaniel De La Cruz, a professional double bassist. Their duo has won first prize in several competitions, including the Charleston International Competition in the duo category recently in 2023 and the instrumental category in 2020, and first place in the National Young Artists Competition with the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra of Idaho in January 2020. Dr. LoGiudice frequently premiered new music in Arizona, she and her husband premiered two new works at a duo recital at Hammer and Strings Conservatory in April 2023, a new concerto for double bass by Argentine composer Mauricio Annunziata inspired by Andean folk music, and a suite for bass and piano by local composer and educator Dr. William Clay, inspired by a musical depiction of an earthquake in Peru in 2007.
Dr. LoGiudice holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in piano performance from Hunter College, CUNY in New York, New York, where her primary teachers were John Bloomfield and Dorothy Taubman, and a Master of Music in collaborative piano from University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied with professional collaborative pianist and professor Robert Koenig. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in collaborative piano from Arizona State University completed in May 2020, under the tutelage of Dr. Andrew Campbell. During her entire college career in addition to studying and performing solo repertoire she worked with instrumentalists and coached singers in their lessons and performances, rehearsed and performed with university choirs, wind ensembles, and orchestras, and worked with composition students in premiering new works for studio recitals. She also collaborated with the Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble from 2017-2022 performing in diverse new music chamber ensembles.
Dr. LoGiudice has over 20 years of teaching experience. She began teaching at Andy’s Family Music Center in Livingston, New Jersey teaching traditional and Suzuki piano lessons while earning her Bachelor’s Degree at Hunter College. She taught varying ages and levels, and her students participated in twice yearly recitals. Dr. LoGiudice established her own private teaching studio in Thousand Oaks, California after graduating from Hunter College. She taught piano and voice to all ages and levels from four years old to high school and adult students. Her students performed piano and vocal solos in her studio recitals twice a year, in the Southern California Junior Bach festival, and in the Certificate of Merit program for theory and performance evaluations where many received honors. Upon moving to Arizona in 2016 to pursue her doctorate in collaborative piano at Arizona State University Dr. LoGiudice began teaching at East Valley School of Music in Chandler, where she taught from 2016-2023. Her students have participated in the Arizona Study Program playing evaluations and theory testing where they frequently receive the highest honors, and in the EVMTA, Jason Sipes, and MTNA competitions. From 2023-2024 Dr. LoGiudice taught private piano lessons and chamber music at the Hammer and Strings Conservatory in Gilbert, Arizona, a music school committed to a high quality music education for students of all ages, with organized levels of technique, theory, and frequent performances where high technical and musical standards are upheld. Dr. LoGiudice is committed to teaching and helping students find their own passion for music. Her goal is to inspire her students to discover the joy of performing both as soloists and with other musicians.