Robert Fred Kern, 75, of Dallas, Professor Emeritus of music and specialist in piano education at UNT from 1980 to 2011, died Aug. 14. Previously, he was a professor at William Rainey Harper College and Northwestern University. Kern earned a bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University, master’s degrees from Illinois Wesleyan and Northwestern University, and a doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado. He was an author and co-author of seven piano methods and contributed more than 500 original compositions and arrangements to several pedagogical publications. He taught clinics all around the country, as well as in Canada and Taiwan. He was inducted into the Illinois State University Woonsok Kim College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame in 2014, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.
Robert Fred Kern, 75, of Dallas, Professor Emeritus of music and specialist in piano education at UNT from 1980 to 2011, died Aug. 14. Previously, he was a professor at William Rainey Harper College and Northwestern University. Kern earned a bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University, master’s degrees from Illinois Wesleyan and Northwestern University, and a doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado. He was an author and co-author of seven piano methods and contributed more than 500 original compositions and arrangements to several pedagogical publications. He taught clinics all around the country, as well as in Canada and Taiwan. He was inducted into the Illinois State University Woonsok Kim College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame in 2014, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.
