Bio

Tamara Wilcox, M. M., is a tenured Instructor in the Department of Theatre & Music Studies. Her recent areas of research include women in music, historical keyboard studies, and the Jaques-Dalcroze method of music pedagogy. Conference presentations include the London International Piano Symposium (Royal Academy of Music, London, UK), the International Conference on Women’s Work in Music (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales), and the Sixth International Conference on Dalcroze Studies (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA). Grants include funding from the Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy. She initiated an annual Women & Keyboards recital series at Brockport, the first of which was highlighted by WXXI Rochester. In addition, she was a featured pianist in the Sigal Museum Concert Series  (Greenville, SC), where she performed a solo recital on the 1784 Stein fortepiano featuring the composer Hélène de Montgeroult.

She is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press (University of Cambridge, UK) researching the piano builder Nannette Streicher née Stein, with publication expected in 2026. She was awarded a Fall 2025 sabbatical in support of this project.

Education

M.M. Collaborative Piano Performance - Eastern Michigan University

B.A. Music - Allegheny College

Areas of Specialty

Jin Shin Jyutsu for the performing artist

Courses Taught

MUS 105 Introduction to Music

MUS 235 Piano II

MUS 306 Music Theory II

MUS 309 Music & Healing

MUS 311 Women in Music

Publications

Wilcox, Tamara. “Using Movement as a Problem-Based Learning Device in Higher Ed Introductory Level Music Courses.” In Problem Based Learning in the College Music Curriculum, edited by Natalie Sarrazin, 131-142. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Additional Information

Prior to joining the Brockport Music Studies faculty, Tamara Wilcox served in the Brockport Department of Dance as Assistant Professor/Music Director for Dance, and prior to that, as Dance Musician/Adjunct Faculty in the School of Music & Dance at Eastern Michigan University. Her work as a dance musician has included collaboration with numerous ballet and modern dance artists including members of American Ballet Theatre and Mark Morris Dance Group. She has played for American College Dance Association and Dance America festivals, as well as for Royal Academy of Dance exams. She hosted the 2013 Conference of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance at SUNY Brockport, has presented at National Dance Education Organization conferences, has taught for American College Dance Association festivals, and has served as an invited guest faculty at both the University of California Irvine Department of Dance and the University of Arizona School of Dance. She has performed as a collaborative dance musician at local venues including Rochester’s Geva Theatre, Rochester’s Downtown Cabaret Theatre, the Rochester Fringe Fest, and at Nazareth College with the Rochester City Ballet and members of the Rochester Philharmonic. Her two albums of original music for ballet class, Inspirations En Pointe and Reflections En Pointe, are sold internationally