Carla Davis Cash
Email: carla.d.cash@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3924
Office: School of Music, Room 236

Carla Davis Cash is Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Texas Tech University
where she chairs the keyboard area, teaches graduate courses in pedagogy, and supervises
keyboard-area instructional TAs. She additionally serves as Associate Director for
Performance and Pedagogy Programs at the School of Music.
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, including Journal of Research in Music Education,
Psychology of Music, American Suzuki Journal, and Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences.
In recognition of her contributions to the field of music learning, Cash has received
the Texas Tech University Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award (2015)
and the Outstanding Research Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy
(NCKP) (2007, 2009). She has been awarded an Arts in Medicine Grant from the Talkington
College of Visual and Performing Arts, several Texas Tech Scholarship Catalyst Program
grants, the Schovanec Teaching Development Scholarship, and the inaugural Texas Tech
Seed Grant for Interdisciplinary Research, subsequently utilized to investigate the
neural basis of skill learning in music using fMRI technology. In 2021, Cash was inducted
into the Texas Tech Teaching Academy.
Professional activities include serving on the editorial board for Music Teachers
National Association's MTNA e-Journal and the research and editorial committees of
Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy
(NCKP). Carla also performs regularly as a collaborative pianist, joining colleagues
on stages across the U.S. and beyond.
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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