ABOUT ME
Dr. Alessandra DiCienzo PhD, MA, G.Dip, BMus, ARCT, RMT
Alessandra has been teaching since 1999 and maintains a full time music studio in Niagara Falls, Ontario where she teaches private piano lessons, theory and history from beginner to Associate level. She is an instructor at Brock University Department of Music, an examiner for Conservatory Canada, the Provincial Secretary-Registrar for the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association, co-author of a beginner technique series Take Off! With Technique, workshop clinician and the organist/pianist for St. Patrick church.
Alessandra is a graduate of the University of Ottawa with a PhD in Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Master of Arts degree and Graduate Diploma in Piano Pedagogy Research, Western University with an Honours Bachelor of Music specialization in Music History, and an ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
In 2024 Alessandra was the recipient of the ORMTA Contribution to Teaching Award and in 2008 was awarded the Tom and Miggsie Lawson National Teacher Travel and Study Scholarship from Conservatory Canada where she was recognized as an outstanding teacher along with five others from across Canada. She also gives professional development workshops for teachers throughout Ontario. Alessandra is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association where she has held positions at the local and provincial level.
Alessandra loves to travel, read and takes guitar lessons. She enjoys the outdoors with her husband Calvin and their dogs Poppy and Finnegan.
