Academic Education

• Nordhoff Union High School, graduated 1938 (Valedictorian)

• Pomona College with music as the major: BA, magna cum laude 1942

• Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester: M.MUS (in Music Literature) 1943

• Performer’s Certificate in Piano 1945

• Pomona College: Doctor of Music Honoris Causa, 2001

　

Private Study of Asian Instruments

• Japanese koto (w/ Kay Mikami, Honolulu) 1955-1962,  (3 months w/ Miyagi Michio, Tokyo) 1956;

• Taiko -- Iwakuni Bon Dance (3 months w/ Goichi Fukunaga, Honolulu) 1959;

• Okinawan koto (6 months w/ Otoyo Maeshiro, Honolulu) 1961;

• Chinese yangkum (3 months w/ Chang Hoon, Honolulu) 1959;

• Chinese zheng (briefly w/ Liang Tsai-Ping, Taipei) 1960;

• Korean piri (2 months at predecessor to National Classical Music Institute, Korea) 1960;

• Korean changgo (periodically w/ Halla Huhm, Honolulu) 1960-63;

• Korean kayagum (briefly w/ Hwang Byongki, Seoul) 1962

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Professional Appointments

• Eastman School of Music: faculty of piano and theory, 1943-1949

• University of Hawaii (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa): Ass’t. Prof. 1949-, Assoc. Prof. 1953-, Prof. 1962-, Prof. Emerita 1982-

• East-West Center: Senior Fellow 1973; & Director of 6-month Music Training Programs for Pacific Islanders – Women’s Leadership 1967, Ethnomusicology 1973, 1975, 1976

• Short-term Visiting Professorships: Ohio State University, Arizona State University-Tucson