Michael Sitton
composer | teacher | pianist
Michael Sitton composer | teacher | pianist

Welcome

I’m active as a solo and collaborative pianist, as a teacher of piano and music theory, and as a composer. After serving several universities both as a professor of piano and theory and as an academic administrator, I have retired to my home in central Vermont, where I’m very active in a vibrant regional music community. I teach private students as a member of Montpelier’s Monteverdi Music School faculty, and frequently perform as a soloist and in collaboration with others. I’m deeply committed to the value of music as a source of elevation, community, and enrichment, to a teaching approach that considers carefully the individuality and learning goals of each student that I teach, and to the creation of new music that speaks with my own musical voice, often in the form of my musical response to texts, sacred and secular.

Additional information about my work, along with more detailed biographical information, is located elsewhere on this website.

Thank you for visiting. I welcome your interest.

“Compelling piano artistry…revealing colors and nuances”

—Jim Lowe, in the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus, on a 2023 performance of solo piano works by Florence Price and Claude Debussy

“Incorporating a haunting melody with a gentle, understated accompaniment … the simple beauty of this setting is always well appreciated by choristers.”

—Alan Reed, in the Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians on Tantum Ergo