Carla Davis Cash
Email: carla.d.cash@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3924
Office: School of Music, Room 003

Carla Davis Cash is Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Texas Tech University
where she serves as chair of the keyboard area, teaches courses in pedagogy, supervises keyboard-area
instructional TAs, and coordinates the undergraduate class piano program.
For over a decade, her body of research has centered on the processes by which novice
and expert musicians learn and refine motor skills. She regularly presents her work
at state, national, and international conferences of music performance, education,
and psychology, and her articles can be found in leading journals and trade magazines
of music education and music psychology.
In recognition of her contributions to the field of music learning, she received
the Texas Tech University Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award in 2015
as well as the Outstanding Research Award from the National Conference on Keyboard
Pedagogy (NCKP) in 2007 and 2009. She has been awarded grant funding for several projects
by Texas Tech's Scholarship Catalyst Program and an Arts in Medicine Grant from the
Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts. In 2016, Dr. Cash and her interdisciplinary
team of colleagues in music, cognitive psychology, and mechanical engineering were
one of four research groups to receive the inaugural TTU Seed Grant for Interdisciplinary
Research, subsequently utilized to investigate the neural basis of skill learning
in music using fMRI technology.
Professional activities include serving on Scholarship, Research, and Pedagogy Selection
Committee for the 2020 College Music Society (CMS) National Conference. She is a member
of the Research and Editorial Committees of Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA)
and the Research Committee of the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP),
which she previously co-chaired for several years. Carla performs regularly as a collaborative
pianist, joining colleagues on stages across the U.S. and beyond. She also maintains
a small private studio in Lubbock, TX.
A native of Miami, Florida, she earned a B.M. in Keyboard Performance and M.M. in
Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy from the Frost School of Music at the University
of Miami, and holds a Ph.D. in Music and Human Learning from The University of Texas
at Austin.
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