Richard Masters is an associate professor of piano and collaborative piano at Virginia Tech. Before joining the faculty in Virginia, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin as principal opera coach in the Butler Opera Center. His articles and reviews have appeared in American Music Teacher, MTNA E-Journal, Studies in Musical Theatre Journal, Directors and Choreographers Journal, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, Piano Magazine, and The Record Collector. He holds degrees from the Eastman School, the Juilliard School, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.