2025 IPPEC Examiner
Dr. Jessica Koebbe
William Jewell College
Dr.
Jessica Koebbe is active as a
performer, clinician, and educator. Her love of music and travel has resulted in
opportunities to work and perform throughout the United States, Puerto Rico,
Taiwan, France, and Germany. She has collaborated many times with international
musicians from major symphony orchestras and opera house, and has won numerous
awards from multiple competitions and is dedicated to helping students and
professionals enhance their musical psychology and advancing the field of
collaborative piano.
She holds degrees in piano performance, receiving her DMA from the University of
Missouri-Kansas
City Conservatory of Music and Dance, her Master of Music from Texas Christian
University, and her
Bachelor of Music from the University of Kansas (summa
cum laude).
Dr.
Jessica Koebbe has spoken at the
International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society international conference, the
international Piano Professionals Association Piano Pedagogy conference, the
Sigma Alpha Iota national convention, and multiple state conferences about music
performance anxiety as it relates to teaching and performance. Her work has also
been published in the peer-reviewed journal
On
Collaborating.
She also founded the Mindful Music Pedagogy website, providing resources for
music educators to inspire students and teachers to persevere, transforming
music learning into a meaningful life skill- discipline, problem- solving,
patience, and time management.
She serves on the music faculty at William Jewell College where she spearheaded the initiation of the School Keyboard Scholars program, an initiative to offer mentorship and scholarships to undergraduate keyboard students in the art of collaborative piano.
As the director of the Puerto Rico Center for Collaborative Piano, she and the PRCCP team provided opportunities for professional, student, and amateur pianists to learn from some of the world’s leading collaborative pianists and chamber musicians during PRCCP’s summer festival.