His book, The Tango in American Piano Music, was published in 2010 by the College Music Society series, Cultural Expressions in Music. His debut CD Mostly Tangos: Piano Music from the Americas, has been released with favorable reviews by Eroica Classical Records. His newest CDs Piazzolla da Camera and Latin American Duos were release by Centaur Records. He has published articles on a variety of piano literature and piano pedagogy topics in the American Teacher Magazine and Piano Pedagogy Forum. He has been featured in Piano: La Lettre du Musicien (France), Piano Education Page (USA) and at various music magazines, radio and TV programs.
In 2015, Oscar received the most prestigious University of Texas System teaching award, the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, and in 2019 he was inducted in the UTEP Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He has been sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C. (graduate researcher), the Polish Government, the Organization of American States, and the Leschetizky Association of New York. He received the Music Teachers National Association StAr Award, and was named "Distinguished Graduate Student" by the University of Arizona. He is a recipient of several grants, most recently the Texas Commission on the Arts through the El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department to perform concerts in underserved communities. He studied piano at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina), the Krakow Academy of Music (Poland), Louisiana State University and the University of Arizona (USA). He is always thankful to all his piano mentors who believed in him: Lucia Herrera, Celina Lis, Ewa Bukojemska, Ana Maria Trenchi de Bottazzi, Phyllis East, Michael Gurt, Nohema Fernandez, and Tannis Gibson. He is a Professor of Piano, Assistant Chair and Keyboard Area Coordinator at the University of Texas at El Paso
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Oscar Macchioni is an Steinway Artist