Todd QuallsArtist Affiliate: Piano

Todd Qualls began his piano studies while growing up in Atlanta. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music at Emory University, studying piano with William Ransom, and later completed a master’s degree in piano performance with a pedagogy emphasis at Florida State University, where he studied with Carolyn Bridger.

Qualls has had a varied career in music, with experience in solo performance, accompanying, chamber music, and teaching. Some of his previous performances have included Emory keyboard faculty presentations of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, as well as recitals with trombonist Ed Nicholson. More recently he gave solo recitals at Emory University in 2019 and 2024 and participated in the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta’s Beethoven Sonata-thon in 2020.

Qualls devotes much of his time to teaching students at Emory and in the surrounding neighborhood. He has also served on the teaching faculty of the Georgia Academy of Music and Community Music Centers in Atlanta.