Emily Ezola

Biography

Emily Ezola currently serves as the Director of USU Music Admissions and Recruitment, Director of the USU Youth Conservatory, Executive Director of the Fry Street Chamber Music Festival, and the Music Graduate Program Coordinator. She has taught a range of courses including Pedagogy Practicum, Keyboard Harmony, Individual Piano Instruction, Intro to Music, Fundamentals of Music, and a Special Topics class in Piano Performance & Pedagogy. Emily served as the Keyboard Harmony Coordinator from 2015 to 2021 and had the opportunity to teach in Beijing, China at the Beijing Institute of Technology for the USU China Program in 2024. She is also an active pianist, enjoying both solo and collaborative performances. Since 2022 she has been the USU Bass Festival pianist, performing with distinguished artists including Braun Khan, Ranaan Meyer, Sam Suggs, Lauren Pierce, and Jacob Warren.

Emily is involved in various community and professional activities. She previously served as the Program Chairman for the Chamber Music Society of Logan from 2018 to 2022, and on the collegiate committee of the Utah Music Teachers Association (UMTA) state board from 2019 to 2022. Her efforts have been recognized with awards like the Utah Music Teachers Association AIM Teacher of the Year award in 2024, the Caine College of the Arts Community Engaged Faculty of the Year in 2023, and the Utah State University Community Engagement Presidential Award in 2020.

Emily has also worked on educational projects, including co-creating piano activity books for The Perfect Start series with Kevin and Julia Olson and co-writing an online piano course with Per Danielsson for the Educational Advantage School of Music. She earned her master’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Utah State University, graduating magna cum laude, and has been a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music since 2019. She has also shared her expertise at various conferences including the Utah Music Teachers Association state conference and the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy.