Matthay Festival 2012

Union University
Jackson, Tennessee

June 20-23, 2012



  WED THUR FRI SAT
9:00   Marie Hasse:
“Is There a
Matthay/Music Tree Connection?"

Dan Franklin Smith:
"La Vida Iberiana"
Ann Holler:
"Chromatic Chords - Who Cares? Or Why Music Theory Matters for Pre-College Students"

10:30   Master Class: Nigel Coxe Kevin Chance:Kinderszenen Revisited: A Performer’s Guide to Tempo and Motivic Unity”

Elizabeth Vandevander:
"Interpreting the Haydn Variations in F minor using the Matthay Concepts"

1:30 Clara Wells Competition (at 1:00) Terry McRoberts: “Chinese Piano Music" Stephen Siek :
"Inflection and Color in Beethoven's Op. 10, No.3; Doing Justice to an Early Masterpiece"

Raymond Songayllo: “Karol Szymanowski, Polish Master of the 20th Century”

3:00 Clara Wells Competition David Watkins:
"Solving Technical and Musical Challenges in the Piano Works of David Burge Using Matthay Principles"
Ann Sears: “Beethoven's Expansion of the Sonata Principle” Christopher Thompson:
"D. E. Inghelbrecht’s La Nursery—A Forgotten Four-Hand Piano Gem"—Performance by Christopher Thompson and Patricia Thompson
4:00 Officers and Directors Meeting of the AMAP (from 4:30 to 5) A brief session with Stephen Siek discussing the new APR series "The Matthay Pupils," and playing some selections from the Eileen Joyce, Harriet Cohen, and Irene Scharrer collections. BANQUET (at 5:15) at Carl Grant Events Center

AMAP Annual Meeting (4:30)
7:30 Nigel Coxe

J. S. Bach: Six Preludes and Fugues from WTC I; C major, C minor, C-sharp major, C-sharp, minor, E-flat major, E-flat minor (D-sharp minor)
Liszt: Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este I: Thrénodie from Années de pèlerinage, Troisième année
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”


Lynn Rice-See

Mozart: Sonata in F, K. 533
Schubert: Sonata in G, D. 894
Johann Strauss/Dohnanyi:: Schatzwalzer from Zigeunerbaron  
David Watkins

Schubert: Impromptu in B-flat, D. 935
Haydn: Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20
Astor Piazzolla: Suite para piano, Op. 2
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Bks. I and II, Op. 35

Lisa Caliri

Barber: Nocturne, Op. 33
Barber: Sonata, Op. 26
Seymour Bernstein: Birds, Bks. 1 and 2
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
9:00 Book Signing by the Author: England's Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay by Stephen Siek


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