Asbury College

Don Zent

Professor

 

Brief Biography of

Donald A. Zent

Donald A. Zent, Professor of Piano at Asbury College, has taught college music students for over thirty-five years, first at Indiana Wesleyan University (formerly Marion College), and since 1988 at Asbury College. As Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Asbury, he teaches applied piano, group piano, piano pedagogy, and form and analysis. He holds three degrees in piano performance: Bachelor of Music and Master of Music, both from Indiana University, and Doctor of Musical Arts from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Some of his previous piano teachers include Rebecca Penneys, Eduardo Berlendis, Santos Ojeda, Jorge Bolet, Nicholas Zumbro, Tong Il Han, Carolyn Kindley, Gizi Szanto, and Delight Murphy. Two of his piano teachers can trace their piano teachers back to Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Dr. Zent has performed as piano soloist with the Indiana Chamber Orchestra and the Lexington Philharmonic. Furthermore, he has performed solo piano recitals at various colleges and universities including Asbury College, Indiana Wesleyan University, Anderson University, Taylor University, Transylvania University, Campbellsville University, Lindsey-Wilson College, Centre College, and Murray State University. A piano accompanist, he has performed with a long list of vocalists and instrumentalists. As a member of the Kentucky Music Teachers Association (KMTA), Dr. Zent has served as its Piano Chair, Secretary, and Coordinator of Collegiate Competitions. Additionally, he has been an adjudicator for NGPT, KMTA, and for the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He has taught piano and Piano Pedagogy to graduate students at the Seminário Teológico Batista do Norte do Brasil in Recife, Brazil. Many of his former students are active piano teachers in both United States and Canada. And several of his former students have earned master’s degrees in piano performance.

Both Dr. Zent and his wife love the Lord and are actively involved in the Wilmore Free Methodist Church; he has served in this church in various capacities, including a short-term missions trip to Cuiabá. Brazil. His wife, Roberta, is a teaching assistant at Wilmore Elementary School and has taught mathematics at Asbury College and at Lexington Community College. His son, Kevin, is a family physician in Greenfield, Ohio; Kevin and his wife, Autumn, have two sons. Dr. Zent’s oldest daughter, Jenna, is an elementary school teacher in Lexington, Kentucky. And his youngest daughter, Cammi Hanna, is a social worker; she and her husband, David, live in Louisville, Kentucky.

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