Publications
PhD Dissertation: The Musical Identities of Piano Students: A Phenomenological Case Study.
University of Calgary, 2022
Article: Supporting Without Overwhelming: Our Children’s Music Lessons
The Piano Magazine, Spring 2024, 33 - 37.
Article: Ask an Expert: Student Motivation, Retention, and Attrition.
ORMTA Notes, Spring 2021, 12 - 14.
Article: The 4 piece challenge: Questioning the culture of speed in piano lessons.
American Music Teacher Journal, 70(1), 20 - 27.
Article: Predictors of piano student dropouts.
Intersections, 37(2), 27 - 42.
Article: Parting ways with piano lessons: Comparing motivation between continuing and dropout piano students.
Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Summer 2020 (No. 225), 45 - 66.
Article: I am a musician: Piano students’ meaning and identity.
American Music Teacher Journal, October/November 2018.
Book Review: The Child As Musician (2nd Ed.)
British Journal of Music Education, 35(1), 105 - 107. doi:10.1017/S0265051718000025
MA Thesis: Parting Ways with Piano Lessons: predictors, invoked reasons, and motivation related to piano student dropouts.
University of Ottawa, 2016
Podcasts
Episode 4: What’s in the Research? (Sept. 27, 2022)
Loud & Clear: Amplifying the Voices of Women in Music with Olivia Adams
TC215: Research-backed insights on piano student retention with Karen Gerelus
Topcast with Tim Topham
Why Do Piano Students Quit? Karen King's Research Provides the Answers
Teach Piano Today Podcast
EP17: Karen King – Research on music students who drop out
Oclef Podcast
Presentations
Interested & Involved: Music Studio Parents.
Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations conference, online (July 2024).
The ‘I’ in why: Musical identities and student retention.
Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations conference, online (July 2022).
In the key of now: 21st century ways to teach 19th century concepts.
National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, Chicago, IL (July 2021).
PROPer piano pedagogy: Using teaching props in beginner piano lessons.
Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations conference, online (July 2021).
I am a musician: Piano students’ meaning and identity.
Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations conference, Winnipeg, MB (July 2019).
“It’s not you, it’s me”: Motivation, attrition, and piano pedagogy.
Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers' Association annual conference, Saskatoon, SK (October 2018).
The two eyes/I’s in musician: Seeing identity in young piano students.
Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies conference, Regina, SK (May 2018).
The Psychology of Piano Pedagogy.
Royal Conservatory of Music Summer Summit, Calgary, AB (August 2017).
The trooper and the terminator: Comparing motivation between continuing and dropout piano students.
Music Teachers' National Association conference, Baltimore, ML (March 2017).
Parting ways with piano lessons: Predictors of piano student dropouts.
Canadian University Music Society conference, Calgary, AB (June 2016).
Comparing motivation in continuing and dropout piano students.
Poster presented at the 6th International Conference on Self-Determination Theory, Victoria, BC (June 2016).
Deciphering dropouts: Impairing or sustaining piano student motivation and retention.
Alberta Piano Teachers' Association conference, Red Deer, AB (Sept. 2016).
MemorizzzZZZzation: Sleep and music memory.
Alberta Registered Music Teachers' Association: Calgary branch meeting, Calgary, AB (March 2015).
