Alejandro Cremaschi, NCTM, teaches piano and piano pedagogy, and coordinates the class piano area and the Youth Piano Program at the University of Colorado Boulder as Professor of Piano Pedagogy. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts and a Master of Music degrees from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Lydia Artymiw. Previously, he studied with Nancy Roldan at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and with Dora De Marinis at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina. 

Dr. Cremaschi is an active performer and researcher of the music of Latin America. His playing has been described as “pristine” and “passionate” by the Washington Post, and “polished” and “exemplary” by the Fanfare magazine. He was a prize winner at the International Beethoven Sonata Piano Competition in Memphis, Tennessee in 2001. He has recorded music by Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Luis Jorge González and other Argentine composers as a soloist and chamber pianist for the labels IRCO, Ostinato, Marco Polo and Meridian Records.  He is a foundig member and the Executive Director for Sonus International Music Festival, an online festival and non-profit organization devoted to the dissemination of the music of Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino, and other classical music composers inspired by folk traditions. 

A specialist in the areas of piano pedagogy, group piano, technology-aided instruction and cooperative learning, Dr. Cremaschi has been a frequent presenter at the National Conference in Keyboard Pedagogy, the Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy conference, the Music Teachers National Association conference, International Society for Music Education national and international conferences and other conferences. His research areas include the music of Latin America, the study and implementation of cooperative learning strategies in the piano classroom, the use of technology to aid the acquisition of piano skills, and the influence of self-efficacy beliefs in piano students' practice, motivation and achievement. His reviews and articles have appeared in the Research Studies in Music Education, MTNA e-Journal, California Music Teacher, Keyboard Companion, Clavier, the American Music Teacher magazines, the European Piano Teachers Association Piano Journal, Journal of Technology in Music Learning, and the Piano Pedagogy Forum on-line journal. 

His edition and recording of Alberto Ginastera's Doce Preludios Americanos for piano was published by Carl Fischer in 2016, and superseded the original 1946 original edition of this work. 

In 2017 Alejandro was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award at the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s College of Arts and Humanities. He received an Outstanding Service Recognition Award from the Frances Clark Center in 2021.