122 Old Ayer Rd Groton, MA 01450 . As UNTs Graduate Teaching Fellow, Claire directed a studio of undergraduate cellists and coached undergraduate chamber ensembles. This is his tenth appearance in Taos. The audition repertoire should consist of a complete recital to include the following: Assistant Professor of Piano; Traditional Piano, Assistant Professor of Piano; Program Chair: Piano; Dept. 122 Old Ayer Rd Groton, MA 01450 978-486-9524, Office Hours Mon-Fri: 9am 9pm Sat: 8am 6pm Sun: closed. Some students are accepted and arrive having had extensive private study on their instruments. Mr. McDonald has also performed with the Takcs, Vermeer, Juilliard, Brentano, Borromeo, American, and Shanghai string quartets, and in tours with Music from Marlboro. I am currently pursuing a Doctoral degree at the Franz Liszt Academy, while holding a full time teaching position at the University of Szeged, serving as International Liaison for the Music Department. New Hungarian Quartet was the first quartet to teach at the TSoM. Many international scholars and teachers serve as guest instructors during the program, and there are also special workshops featuring Hartt faculty. He adjudicated the MTNA Young Artist Competition and piano competitions in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Connecticut, and New York. She continued, To hear and see them perform has always felt to me like taking a private tour through a composers mind. The Borromeo have been trailblazers in the use of laptop computers for reading music. Janet previously held piano faculty positions at the Rivers Music School Conservatory in Weston and at St. Marks School in Southborough. D.M.A candidate at Boston University Building Young Artists and Audiences of the Future, DMA, University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music. Its members- violinists Ara Gregorian and Hye-Jin Kim, violist Maria Lambros and cellist Michael Kannen- are former members of some of this countrys most respected ensembles: the Brentano, Daedalus, Mendelssohn and Ridge string quartets as well as the string sextet, Concertante. She is founder and director of Bacchanalia Baroque Ensemble, and has recently appeared as soloist with Bacchanalia, the Schiller Institute Orchestra and the New York Chamber Players. I was also fortunate to collaborate with many great artists and ensembles, such as double-bassist Robert Black, soprano Maureen OFlynn, Martha Graham principal dancer Miki Orihara, Foot in the Door, 016, HICO and many others. Beals is a featured soloist and arranger on Jack McDuffs compact discs for Concord and Summit records. He finds teaching beginners as well as advanced students very rewarding. . He is joined by Thomas Sauer, member of the music . Collegiate studies include Piano Performance at the University of Lowell with pianists Dragana Bajalovic and Juanita Tsu. Taos, NM 87571, Email: info (@) TaosSchoolofMusic (dot) com, 2015-2022 Taos School of Music, All Rights Reserved, To hear and see them perform has always felt to me like taking a private tour through a composers mind., seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture.. Eastman School of Music, Yi-Cheng Shia The masterclass will feature the members of his touring quartet and feature music [] I have been featured in performances at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Tenri Cultural Institute, Milton Court Concert Hall, and the Yamaha Salon, as well as Paul Hall (The Juilliard School). B.A. Welcome to The Hartt School, a performing arts conservatory for music, dance, and theatre. She has been a member of the WSM faculty since 2000 and enjoys working with students of all ages. In 1982 Robert McDonald, now on the faculty of the Julliard School and Curtis Institute of Music, joined the school as resident pianist and Artistic Director and remains with Taos School of Music today. He is the strings professor at Fairfield University, an adjunct faculty member in the Greens Farms Academys orchestral program, coaches string sectionals for the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras, and has conducted Monroe's Music Enrichment Program and Enchanted Gardens Summer Music Immersion ensembles. Pianist Agustin Muriago has performed throughout the United States, Spain, China, Brazil, and his native Argentina, in venues such as the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Yamaha Salon in New York City. He has recorded for Acte Pralable, Radium Recordings, and for NPR affiliates. Lastly, I am thrilled to be making music with my wonderful colleagues, performing concerts for the students and the community! Currently, I live in West Hartford, Connecticut, where I spend my time teaching, practicing, and performing.I love connecting with audiences around the world through music, whether I am performing as a soloist with a large ensemble, such playing Beethovens Choral Fantasie at The Bushnell, giving a solo recital in a gorgeous, intimate venue like Hill-Stead Museum, or even discussing Bachs Goldberg Variations and playing a livestream performance for a webinar series at Norfolk Library. He has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions as well as American Prize Competition in Art Song, the Accadia Foundation for the Arts and the Bel Canto Competition. Start building your music career by developing your skills in communicating with an audience, contract negotiation, making a recording, preparing for orchestra auditions, repertoire selection, and stage presentation. Pianist Robert McDonald has played extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. From a house on Collins Street, it has grown into a three-building institution where this year about 620 undergraduate and 150 graduate students pursued degrees in music, dance, and theater. My performing engagements have led me to over 500 concerts in the USA, Israel, France, Serbia, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Slovakia as a solo performer and chamber musician. Lennon Ashton (Musicianship) B.M., Music Education, Long Island University. [8] Notable faculty members have included: Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}414752N 724305W / 41.7979N 72.718W / 41.7979; -72.718. Europe, and the Far East. Morgan (Voice, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Ukulele) . Matthew is a firm believer in freedomof expression and creativity, and assuch he nurtures students of all ages to find their own voice and love for music of all styles. What can campers expect to learn working with you this summer? Dana has played recitals and chamber music in New York and Connecticut and has been accompanist for the Manhattan Schools Preparatory Division, for musicals and for Hartt Community Division master classes. Head: Traditional Piano, Manager and Evaluator of Academic Support Services; Suzuki and Traditional Piano; Artist Teacher of Piano, Traditional Piano; Artist Teacher, Piano Department. Email or call us at (207) 775-3356. 2011 First Prize: ShandenDing Piano Competition (China) Recent appearances include concerto performances with the Quad-City and Tallahassee Symphonies; solo performances at Carnegie Hall and St. Johns College, Oxford; and performances with the Chamber Music Societies of Lincoln Center and Philadelphia. Concert Performance, Piano Faculty Artist Series with Mark Kellogg Hatch Recital Hall Eastman School of Music Rochester, NY. Since that time,hehasestablishedhimselfasoneofthemostsought-afterandversatilemusicians of his generation with performances in New Yorks Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Washington D.C.s Kennedy Center and in major metropolitan cities throughout the world including Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Cleveland, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Ulaanbaatar, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Helsinki. On the pre-college level, I teach piano and chamber music at The Hartt School Community Division. By studying ourInternational Pathway Program, you will gain the skills needed to study at a US university through English language training alongside useful study skills. . She is an adjunct faculty member at Greens Farms Academy and is passionate about creatively tailoring teaching to her students needs and interests. In addition to coaching piano at Taos School of Music, he is also the schools artistic director. Piano, Violin, viola, Singing Faculty since 2019, Yinfei Wang Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music . A piano instructor since 1982, Ms. Braun currently teaches piano at Elizabethtown College, Lancaster Country Day School and her home studio. He has performed with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress and given numerous concerts with the Brentano String Quartet. Instructor, Saxophone, Clarinet & FluteAndrew Beals is currently an Adjunct Professor of Jazz Saxophone and Jazz Improvisation at Sacred Heart University Fairfield Connecticut, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut. I am excited to teach at Luzerne Music Center and to help create that incredible educational experience for the next generation of young artists. While there, he was the recipient of the James Furman Memorial Chamber Music Award. One of his goals as an instructor is to help turn students from passive listeners into active listeners so they become stronger musicians. Please contact us if you would like to know more about working at Westport School of Music. Our faculty are performers, scholars, and creative artists who have performed at theatres and concert halls around the world and they will teach you using their own experience. As a young musician, I unfortunately did not have the opportunity to attend summer music programs geared towards pre-college students and have found teaching at these programs both rewarding and invigorating. . Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. 2009 First Prize: Jacob Flier Piano Competition (USA), Qing Li These musicians have performed in the worlds most prestigious chamber music venues, including New Yorks Carnegie and Alice Tully halls, Londons Wigmore Hall, Amsterdams Concertgebouw and Viennas Konzerthaus; won international competitions including the Yehudi Menuhin International and Concert Artists Guild International competitions; performed throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and North America; and are veterans of the Four Seasons, Marlboro, Santa Fe, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest and Prussia Cove chamber music festivals. His teachers were Paul Jeffery, John Stubbelfield, Frank Foster, George Garzone (saxophone) and Jim McNeely (composition). Having played together for years, they now make it official. One of the concert tours took me through seven countries beginning in Tbilisi, Georgia, traveling through Southeast Asia, performing in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, and ending with a recital at Tokyos Kioi Hall. Groton Hill Music Center shares the transformative power of music, through teaching and performing, and giving music generously when there is need. He is the Assistant Director of Liturgical Choir at Sacred Heart University, Adjunct Professor of Voice at Southern Connecticut State University and is also aprivate piano teacher. Please note:We have students who come to Hartt from across the United States and around the world. B.M. 2016 Third Prize: Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (USA) In addition to honing his skills as a performer and educator, Andrew continues to evolve and to push the boundaries of his musicianship, having invented and mastered several of his own varieties of musical solfege, researched and discovered links between light and sound waves, and even learned to perform human echolocation. She has studied with Arkady Aronov and Constance Keene at the Manhattan School of Music and Paul Rutman at Hartt. My students have won top prizes in competitions like the Virtuoso Pianists Competition in Hartford, Hartt Honors Artist Competition, Renee B. Fischer Competition, Connecticut Bach Festival, and more. While performing on tour was incredibly memorable, I also enjoyed working with students in masterclasses around the world: learning about different cultural perspectives while working towards the common goal of playing music. In addition to his work with the Alturas Duo and ADAA trios, he was formerly a Play USA, Carnegie Hall Teaching Artist for the INTEMPO Organization in Stamford, CT. His fourteen-year tenure in McDuffs band included lengthy tours of North America and Europe. In addition to their extensive music-making careers, they are all dedicated teachers, with appointments at the Peabody Conservatory and East Carolina University. This method allows them to perform entirely from 4-part scores and also composers manuscripts, a revealing and transformative experience that they now teach to students around the world. Snyder received his Bachelor of Applied Piano with a Performer's Certificate in Piano, an I practiced with so much concentration and inspiration being in a creative atmosphere. Harris Becker (Musicianship, Music History) Director, Guitar Studies. He has performed extensively as a member of the Cooperstown Quartet, Concertante and the Daedalus Quartet, and has recorded for National Public Radio, New Yorks WQXR, and the Bridge and Kleos labels. As a member of Prometheus Duo with saxophonist Joseph Abad, I performed more than 50 concerts since 2016, premiering new music and traditional chamber music repertoire. With his long-time duo partner Colin Carr, Mr. Sauer has appeared at the Wigmore Hall (London), the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bargemusic (New York City), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), and Princeton University among many other venues. I have also taught keyboard literature at The Hartt School. You will be able to participate in many performance, educational, and professional development opportunities. Theyre champions of new musicbut they also thrive on making the old classics sound vital and fresh, said Cathy Fuller, Classical New England host on WGBH radio. M.M. Instructor, PianoDanaLaporta earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Hartt School of Music and her Master of Music in piano from the Manhattan School of Music. Alan strives to inspire a deep understanding and appreciation for all music. Luzerne Music Center is a magical place! Head: Traditional Piano, Traditional Piano; Artist Teacher, Piano Department, Associate Professor of Music Education; Division Director for Music Education, Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Music Education, Associate Professor of Music History; Division Director, Music Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History, Associate Professor; Chair, Music and Performing Arts Management, Assistant Professor of Music Production and Technology, Associate Professor of Music Theory; Chair, Music Theory, Percussion Faculty; Professor of Percussion; Dept. [5] In 2015, facing total declinement of enrollment, the school closed down its organ studies program and sold the Gress-Miles organ to United Methodist Church in Babylon, New York. In short, four consummate musicians come together to form one dynamic and brilliant string quartet. My performing career has taken me across Spain, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and I have won numerous awards at both the national and international level. In 1970, the school acquired a new Gress-Miles pipe organ;[2] it was inaugurated with a performance of Bach's Wir glauben all' an einen Gott. The Hartt School's faculty perform, teach, and present all over the country and around the world. National Hsinchun University, Taiwan She has adjudicated for competitions and festivals throughout New England. Throughout his career, Gregorian has taken an active role as a performer and presenter of chamber music. . Design by ip piano school. An active chamber musician, Mr. Sloat is a member of the Trio Dolce and the Ives Chamber Players. They won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and top prizes at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. Instructor, Piano Dana Laporta earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Hartt School of Music and her Master of Music in piano from the Manhattan School of Music. 2015 First Prize: Gershwin International Piano Competition (USA) Assistant Professor of Music (Part-time), Violin, Associate Professor of Music (Part-time), Bass, Professor of Music, Head of the Piano Department, Piano, Visiting Affiliate Artist (Part-time), Trumpet, Visiting Affiliate Artist (Part-time), Tuba, Lecturer of Music (Part-time), French Horn, Assistant Professor of Music (Part-time), Clarinet, Associate Professor Emerita of Music, Cello, Purchase College State University of New York, BA, MM, DMA, Stony Brook University, SUNY, BM, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Performance Diploma and Artist Diploma, Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica, Madrid (Spain), BM from the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, BA, BM, Queens College, City University of New York, Performance Diploma, Royal Academy of Music (England), BM, The Hartt School at The University of Hartford, Performers Certificate, Purchase College, SUNY, additional studies, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, MM, Artist Diploma, Purchase College, SUNY, Professional Studies Diploma, Mannes College, The New School for Music, BA, Hunter College, City University of New York, MA, Queens College, City University of New York, Studied with Nadia Boulanger at Lcoles dArt Americaines de Fontainebleau, Guitar studies with Leonid Bolotine, Julian Bream, Albert Valdes-Blain, and Jim Hall, Diploma, Moscow State Conservatory of Music, MPP, Gnesin Musical and Pedagogical Institute (Moscow), BM, Chicago Musical College, Roosevelt University, Diplome Superieure, lEcole Normale de Musique (Paris), Scholarship studies, Royal Academy of Music (England). 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