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Cessaries Galusha is the Piano Area Coordinator at °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ, directing piano studies, teaching Functional Piano Classes, private lessons, and coordinating the collaborative pianists for the music department.

In high school, Cessaries studied with Dr. Charles Schmidt at Graceland University, who was the Director of Piano studies including piano, literature, pedagogy and accompanying.  Dr. Schmidt is currently a Lecturer-Assistant Professor at Augustana College in Illinois.

She earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Conservatory of Music and Dance, at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and studied with Dr. Jane Solose of Canada, who was Professor of Piano and Keyboard Coordinator of Chamber Music. Dr. Solose often traveled  to countries in Eastern Europe and around the world performing, adjudicating, and giving master classes while Cessaries was very privileged to be under her tutelage. 

Cessaries also received a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Oregon where she studied with Dr. David Riley, the Director of Piano Accompanying, and Dr. Alexandre Dossin of Brazil, Professor of Piano and Chair of Keyboard studies.  Both professors are highly acclaimed throughout the world for their performing and teaching.

Cessaries is a native of the Midwest, growing up in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri.  She was featured on Iowa Public Television for competitions at the Governor's Mansion and the Bill Riley Talent Show at the Iowa State Fair.  She took state rankings every year for every level of the Iowa Music Teacher's Association Piano Competitions; prestigious student competitions in the United States.  She also won many other solo and concerto competitions while traveling throughout Iowa at various universities for scholarship awards.  While at the University of Oregon, she had the great honor of learning from the renowned musicologist Alan Walker, the biographer of Franz Liszt, and performed Liszt's "Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este" for him.