Teaching

Dr. Arthur Hernández is presently Associate Professor of Music, and Music Program Coordinator at CT State Community Colleges, Gateway Campus,  in New Haven, Connecticut. Beginning in the fall of 2024, Gateway Campus will be offering an Associate Degree in Music Studies, AA MUSX, a degree that Hernández assisted in creating. In addition to managing all aspects of the music program at Gateway, Dr. Hernández teaches the complete music theory and ear-training sequences, piano class, applied lessons in composition and piano, a world music course, and directs the college’s classical chamber ensemble. He has initiated the Gateway Concert Series that features a variety of compelling music artists and ensembles from the greater New Haven region and beyond.

In 2022, Kendall Hunt Publishers released Arthur Hernández’s ebook, The Down and Dirty Elements of Music Theory.

From 2016-2019 Arthur Hernandez was Assistant Professor of Music and Co-Coordinator of the Music Program at El Paso Community College in El Paso, Texas.  As an instructor, his primary responsibilities include teaching the four semester series of music theory and sight-singing/dictation courses, applied composition, applied piano, jazz to rock, and music appreciation.  As the Co-Coordinator of the Music Program, his duties and responsibilities include overseeing all administrative aspects of the music program. While back in El Paso, Hernández established The Rio Grande Concert Series, featuring an array of up and coming music artists and ensembles.

For eleven years, Dr. Hernández taught at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut, managing and overseeing the entire music program, teaching music composition, music theory, and music appreciation. He also founded Concerts@Capital, an eclectic music concert series which showcased a vast variety of music artists and ensembles.

Arthur Hernández has enjoyed a long and successful career in music education, beginning in 1985 as a young piano instructor in El Paso, Texas.  He has literally taught all levels of music, from beginning piano, singing, and musicianship for children, to graduate level composition and music theory courses.  His teaching and pursuit of education has taken him throughout the United States.

Hernández believes that teaching is a fundamental part of being a creative music artist. A major element which feeds the artistic life force is the charge to pass on what one knows, what one has been given, and what one has experienced, to succeeding generations of musicians.  Dr. Hernández considers this responsibility an honor and a privilege, and relishes each opportunity to work with fellow musicians, young and old, in this capacity.  The great American composer and teacher of Arthur Hernández, Donald Erb, repeatedly said throughout his teaching career that “teaching is an act of love.”  Arthur Hernández completely agrees with this sentiment.