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B. M. Yale University John Kenneth Adams is Emeritus Professor of Piano and Piano Literature. A graduate of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, he studied with Mary Newitt Dawson. During this period he also studied with Carl Friedberg and with Joanna Graudan at the Aspen Festival. He holds both the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Yale University School of Music where he was a student of Bruce Simonds. While a student there, he won the Julia Lockwood Prize in piano and performed twice as soloist with the Yale Symphony. A Fulbright Award followed to the Royal Academy of Music, London where he studied with Hilda Dederich. During this time, he also studied at the Casals Festival in Zermatt, Switzerland. He also studied extensively with Frank Mannheimer, and with Ilonka Deckers-Kuszler in Milan. Professor Adams has performed around the world, including concerts at Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Weill Recital Hall in New York City. He is particularly well known in South America, where he performed over 150 concerts in Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Colombia under the sponsorship of the United States Information Service. He has also performed many concerts for the same organization in Spain, Italy and Turkey. His concerts in America include many recitals for the Matthay Association and the Mannheimer Festival. He was recently guest artist for the Minnesota Music Teachers Convention in Saint Paul, and also for the Minneapolis Women's Club. He also performs frequently in South Korea where he is known for his master classes and lectures. In South Carolina, Professor Adams is well known for his many radio broadcasts for the SC Educational Radio Network, and for his series of Piano Portraits presented across the state. In 1986-87 he performed all the piano music of Debussy in five recitals. A member of the French Piano Institute in Paris, he has written three articles on the piano music of Debussy for the Piano Quarterly. Professor Adams has had student winners in many prestigious competitions including the MTNA Young Artist Competition, the Dimitri Mitropoulos Scholarship Foundation, and the Rotary International Fellowships. At the University of South Carolina he has had 20 students perform with the University Symphony as winners of the Concerto Competition. His students have also frequently performed with the South Carolina Philharmonic. In May, 1997, John Adams gave masterclasses at the National Conservatory in Sofia, Bulgaria. In July, he returned for his third visit to the French Piano Institute in Paris, performing there on the "Soirees musicales" and also gave recitals in Cortona, Italy and in Cirencester, U. K. For more information see johnkennethadams.com.
B. A. Howard Payne College A native of Texas, William Bates earned the Bmus in organ and church music and the BA in music theory from Howard Payne University and both the Mmus and the Dmus in organ performance at Indiana University. Dr. Bates has presented recitals and workshops for churches and AGO chapters throughout much of the United States and for a number of music conventions, including national meetings of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. He has also played recitals in Europe, including those at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and King's College in Cambridge, England. In addition, he has contributed articles and reviews to The American Organist, The Diapason, Journal of the American Liszt Society, and BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. Several of his choral works are available from Hinshaw Music (Chapel Hill, NC), and five organ collections have been printed by Concordia Publishing House. Since 1978 Dr. Bates has taught at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where he holds the position of Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Music History/Literature. He has also served as associate dean and director of graduate studies for the music school. See more information.
B. A. University of Northern Iowa Jerry L. Curry is Emeritus Professor of Music Theory, and Harpsichord at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Curry earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Music Education degrees from the University of Northern Iowa, and his Ph. D. in music theory from the University of Iowa. He taught for seven years in the Iowa public school systems. Dr. Curry has performed as harpsichordist under Robert Donnington in the University of Iowa Collegium Musicum, and has studied in master classes with French harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert. He has performed throughout South Carolina in solo recitals and as a continuo player in many chamber groups including the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra. Dr. Curry is the author of a Freshman theory text entitled "Introduction to the Study of Counterpoint." He is a member of the Society for Music Theory and the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society.
B. M. Oberlin Conservatory Charles L. Fugo is currently Professor of Music and teaches piano and coaches chamber music. He received his baccalaureate degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, with additional study at the Akademie des Mozarteums, Salzburg, Austria, and his master's and doctoral degrees at Indiana University. His teachers include Abbey Simon, Jorge Bolet, Joseph Schwartz, and Winifred Wolf, with chamber music coaching under Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio. He has served on the staff of the Anderson Piano Performance Camp and is currently a staff member at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts. A member of the American Arts Trio, he has also performed with the South Carolina Philharmonic, the South Carolina Chamber Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony, and has also appeared on several statewide Educational Radio and Television programs.
B. M. Eastman School of Music Marina Lomazov, Dr. Marina Lomazov currently serves on the piano faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Music as an Associate Professor of Piano and Artistic Director of the Southeastern Piano Festival. Having started her education in the Ukraine at the Kiev Conservatory, she earned her MM degree from The Juilliard School and both BM and DMA degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the latter granting her the highly coveted Artist's Certificate - an honor the institution had not bestowed upon a pianist for nearly two decades. Her principal teachers include Natalya Antonova, Jerome Lowenthal, Barry Snyder, and Valeri Sagaidachny. Praised by critics as "a diva of the piano" (The Salt Lake City Tribune), "a mesmerizing risk-taker" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), and "simply spectacular" (International Music Foundation Website, Chicago), she has been awarded top prizes in several of the world's major piano competitions including Cleveland International (Silver Medal), Kapell International (Carmen Sasmore Prize), Bachauer International (Brahms Prize), and Hilton Head International (First Prize). She has appeared with the Boston Pops, Rochester Philharmonic, Graz Hochschulorchester, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Missouri Chamber Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic, and the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. She has performed in Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, and Rockefeller University (New York), Symphony Hall and Steinert Hall (Boston), Lyon de Opera (France), Theatro Sao Pedro (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Abravanel Hall (Utah), and White Hall (Kansas City). Dr. Lomazov is a frequent guest artist at music festivals in the US and abroad including the Moulin d'Ande Arts Festival in France, the Chautauqua Music Festival (NY), the Northwest Piano Festival (OR), the Wassermann Piano Festival (UT), the Grand Teton Music Festival (WY), The Bar Harbor Music Festival and the Round Top Center for the Arts (ME). She has been featured on the "Bravo" cable channel, and her live performances are broadcast regularly on National Public Radio, including programs such as NPR's "Performance Today", "Young Artist Showcase" on New York's WQXR, "Morning pro musica" and "Classics in the morning" live on Boston's WGBH, and the Dame Myra Hess concert series on Chicago's WFMT. In the summer of 2003 Dr. Lomazov was asked to join the piano faculty at the Brevard Music Center. She is also the founder and music director of the Southeastern Summer Piano Festival in Columbia, SC. For more information see www.marinalomazov.com
B. M. Bowling Green State University Scott Price currently serves as Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy, Head of the Piano Area, Coordinator of Group Piano, and Coordinator of Piano Pedagogy at the University of South Carolina School of Music. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, The Cleveland Institute of Music, and Bowling Green State University (OH), his recent engagements have included performances and clinics at the national conventions of the Music Teachers National Association, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and solo recitals throughout SC, GA, ND, OH, OK, KS, MO, TX, and Washington DC. Dr. Price is creator and editor-in-chief of the on-line piano pedagogy journal "Piano Pedagogy Forum". Now in its tenth year of publication, Piano Pedagogy Forum has published 20 issues with participation from 102 writers from 84 different colleges/universities, 28 different states and two foreign countries. The Music Teachers National Association recently named Piano Pedagogy Forum as the recipient of the 2008 Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award. Dr. Price has recorded 31 compact discs of educational piano music for Alfred Publishing Company, and has published educational compositions with Alfred Publishing Company and the FJH Music Company. He serves as chair of the Committee on Special Needs Students for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and served as chair of the Autism Task Force for the Music Teachers National Association, and served on the planning committee of the 2006 National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum National Convention. Special teaching interests of Scott Price include teaching students with disabilities, very young children, and teaching keyboard improvisation to piano students ranging from beginning to advanced levels. His work with disabled students has been featured on WISTV (SC) and WLTX (SC), and in Clavier Companion Magazine, The State newspaper (SC), Columbia Metropolitan Magazine, and was featured at the 2005 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. One of Dr. Price's autistic students was featured on Dateline NBC, and CNN. Scott Price has been awarded the "Best of BGSU Outstanding Graduate" alumnus award from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 2002, and was invited back to the University of Oklahoma as a "Distinguished Guest Alumnus" in March of 2005 to perform, lecture, and present a piano masterclass. Other recent engagements include performances and masterclasses in Thailand, Singapore, and in Kuala Lumpur and Penang in Malaysia, lectures at the 2005 Georgia State Music Teachers State Convention, the 2007 Ohio Music Teachers Association, and the 2007 International Collaborative Conference of the Music Teachers National Association/Canadian Federation of Music Teachers/Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, and the 2008 Georgia Music Educators Conference. He was named a Foundation Fellow by the Music Teachers National Association in 2009.
B. S. in Education, University of Missouri Joseph Rackers serves as Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Piano Accompanying. Praised as "inspiring" (Sulzbach-Rosenberger, Germany), an "exceptional pianist" possessing "enormous talents" (The State, SC), Joseph Rackers has performed for enthusiastic audiences in major musical centers of the United States, Canada, China, France, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria and Ukraine. Recent performances include the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series (Chicago), Shanghai and Sichuan Conservatories of Music and Yantai International Music Festival (China), Burgos International Music Festival (Spain), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Central Park of Culture in Kiev and Chernigoff Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), Moulin d'Ande Arts Festival (France), Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival (Germany) and Varna International Masterclasses in Piano (Bulgaria), in addition to performances as soloist with orchestras, on concerts series or at universities in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. In 2009, Rackers was named to the International Roster of Steinway Artists. His debut solo compact disc for the MSR Classics label featuring works by Bach, Schumann, Ravel and Bartok will be released in the Fall, 2010. Rackers holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music where he was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate. His primary teachers were Natalya Antonova and Raymond Herbert with additional study or masterclasses with Malcolm Bilson, Misha Dichter, Julian Martin, Eugenie Mogilevski and Blanca Uribe. Other recent or upcoming performances include the Society of Composers National Conference, Arizona State University, University of Georgia, University of Colorado, South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukas Theatre (Savannah, GA), Gladys Frisch Harris Piano Festival (NE) and Blue Lake Summer Arts Festival (MI), among others. As a member of the Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo, he was awarded Second Prize at the Sixth Ellis Competition for Duo Pianists (2005), the only national duo piano competition in the United States at that time. Their performances have been described as "splendid" (Rochester, NY, WXXI radio), and "simply dazzling" (The State, SC). As advocates of modern repertoire for duo piano, they have given regional or national premieres of numerous works across the United States. A devoted teacher, Rackers has served on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music Community Education Division and Hochstein Music School. At Eastman, he was awarded the school's annual prize for Excellence in Teaching and his students have been prizewinners in numerous regional, national and international piano competitions. Rackers has given masterclasses throughout the United States, Europe and China and serves on the faculty of the Burgos International Music Festival in Spain. He is in demand as an adjudicator for piano competitions nationally.
B. M. North Texas State University John Williams serves as Emeritus Associate Professor of Piano and Bassoon. Mr. Williams earned his Bachelor and Masters degrees from North Texas State University. He has studied with Ralph Squires, Jack Roberts, Silvio Scionti, Frank Mannheimer, and Denise Lassimonne. Mr. Williams is active as a recitalist and chamber musician, most recently presenting a recital of the complete Etudes by Chopin. His students have won prizes in regional and national competitions. Mr. Williams is an opera librettist, and has served as bassoonist with the North Texas State University and University of South Carolina woodwind quintets, and with regional orchestras. |
John Kenneth
Adams
William H.
Bates
Jerry L. Curry
Charles L. Fugo
Marina Lomazov
Scott Price
Joseph Rackers
W. John
Williams
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