Having more than 50 years of experience teaching music at both Indiana Wesleyan University and, since 1988, at Asbury University, Asbury Professor of Piano Dr. Donald A. Zent has expertise in all levels and categories of piano instruction. A Nationally Certified Teacher of Music recognized by Music Teachers National Association, he earned three degrees in Piano Performance: Bachelor of Music and Master of Music, both from Indiana University, and Doctor of Musical Arts from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. His previous piano teachers include Rebecca Penneys, Eduardo Berlendis, Santos Ojeda, Jorge Bolet, Nicholas Zumbro, Tong Il Han, Carolyn Kindley, Gizi Szanto, and Delight Murphy. Two of his former piano teachers can trace their piano teachers back to Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven. He has extensive performing experience not only as a piano soloist in both Kentucky and Indiana, but also with many vocalists, instrumentalists, and choirs. As a member of Kentucky Music Teachers Association, he has served in several official capacities and was awarded KMTA Teacher of the Year in 2024.  He has been adjudicator for National Guild of Piano Teachers, Kentucky Music Teachers Association, and Kentucky Baptist Convention. He has performed in Europe and has taught piano to graduate students at Seminário Teológico Batista do Norte do Brasil. Some of his former piano students earned master’s degrees and doctoral degrees in piano. Both Dr. Zent and his wife, a former elementary and college educator, have one son, two daughters, and eleven grandchildren, and are actively involved in the Wilmore Free Methodist Church.