John
Kenneth Adams
received his early musical training in Birmingham, Alabama, where
he studied piano with Guy and Elizabeth Allen at the Birmingham College of Music. After moving
to Kansas City, Missouri, he continued his training with Mary Newitt Dawson at the University of Kansas City.
During this time he also studied with Carl Friedberg, one of the last students of Clara Schumann, and with Joanna Graudan at the Aspen Festival. A Victor Wilson Scholar at the Yale School of Music, he studied with Bruce Simonds, and twice won the Concerto Competition and was awarded the Lockwood Prize for the best piano recital. A Fulbright Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music followed, where he studied with Hilda Dederich, and in 1960 he attended the Casals Festival in Zermatt in 1960 as an accompanist. From 1961 until 1971 he studied with Frank Mannheimer, especially during his renowned series of summer sessions in Duluth, Minnesota. Mr. Adams has played on many important series throughout the USA, and during the 1970s made many tours for the United States Information Service in South America, Spain, Italy, and Central America. He made an extensive tour for Gioventu Musicale throughout Italy in 1976 and in 1978 he made his New York debut with an all-French program
in Carnegie Recital Hall.
His concerts in South Carolina over the past four decades now number in the hundreds, and he is
especially well known as an interpreter of French piano music. He is a member of the Board of
Directors for the French Piano Institute in Paris, and has documented the piano music of Debussy
in a series of articles for the Piano Quarterly. In 1985-6 he performed all of Debussy's
piano music in five recitals at the University of South Carolina. He received the Alumni
Achievement Award from the University of Missouri in 1981. In 1997 he was awarded the Mungo
Award for distinguished teaching of undergraduates by the University of South Carolina, and
in 1999 was made a member of The Guardian Society by USC President John Palms. He is a regular
visitor to South Korea, where he has made seven visits since 1986. In 1997 he visited Sophia,
Bulgaria where he gave masterclasses at the National Conservatory and was a guest of the Varna
International Choral Festival in Varna, Bulgaria. This past year he visited France, Italy and
South Korea for concerts, masterclasses and private lessons. In addition to his solo recitals,
he often joins Ella Ann Holding (Artist in Residence at Campbell University) for duo-piano
recitals in the Southeast. In April 2000 he received an Alumni Citation of Merit from Yale
University. John Kenneth Adams is Distinguished Professor of Piano at the University of South
Carolina School of Music, where he has served on the faculty since 1964.
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Gregory
Anderson
at the age of 19, is the 2000 winner of the Clara Wells Scholarship Auditions and he is currently a student of Julian Martin at
the Juilliard School in New York City. He has also studied with Kim Craig at
the Conservatory of Music at the University of St. Thomas, with Aiko Onishi,
and with John Perry. He has been a participant at the Aspen Summer Music
Festival and School and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Maine. Recently
he was featured on National Public Radio when he performed on A Prairie Home
Companion with Garrison Keillor and From the Top with Christopher O'Riley.
He has performed concerti by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, and
Chopin with several orchestras including the Minnesota Sinfonia, the
Mississippi Valley Orchestra, and the Chippewa Valley Symphony. Anderson
also composes and was named the Minnesota Music Educators Association 1999
Composer of the Year for his compositions, "Fantasy for Piano" and "French
Overture" for string orchestra. Among the honors and awards Anderson has
received are top prizes in
the Thursday Musical Piano Competition, the Schubert Club Piano Competition,
and the Minneapolis Music Teachers Forum Competition. In 1999 he was awarded
second runner-up in the MTNA Senior High Piano Competition, and in 1997 he was
a national finalist in the MTNA Junior High Piano Competition. At the Aspen
Music Festival this past summer, he was runner-up in the Schumann Piano
Concerto Competition and was also selected to perform in a master class with
Leon Fleisher.
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Constance Carroll
has received acclaim throughout the nation for her performances as a recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist. The
featured artist at conventions of the state Music Teachers Associations of North and South
Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri,
and Louisiana, she has also given lecture recitals at the national MTNA conventions in Houston,
and most recently, in Kansas City. Equally adept as a teacher and lecturer, she numbers among
her students winners of local and regional competitions, and has presented recitals, master
classes and lectures at numerous universities and colleges throughout the country. In March
1998, her student Qiao-Shuano Xian was the National Collegiate Artist Winner of MTNA Young Chang
Piano Auditions in Nashville. A native of Arizona, Ms. Carroll began piano studies at the age
of five. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Arizona (with high
distinction) and her Master of Music and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of
Music. Her piano studies have also included extensive work with Frank
Mannheimer. Following study as a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna and Salzburg, she was appointed
to the music faculty at Louisiana State University. Subsequently, she taught at Wisconsin State
University and Lenoir-Rhyne College, and was artist-in-residence at Centenary College of
Louisiana for twenty-one years. She was re-appointed to the faculty at Louisiana State
University in 1995, and in 1996 became the first recipient of the Barineau Professorship of
Keyboard Studies. In recent years, Ms. Carroll has been on the faculties of Brevard Music
Center, the University of Houston High School Piano Camp, the Frank Mannheimer Festival, the
American Matthay Association annual meeting, and served as artist-juror at the New Orleans
Institute for the Performing Arts.
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Steve Clark
is a member of both the American
Matthay Association and the American Liszt Society. He appears frequently in recital and
often serves as an adjudicator for piano competitions. Students from his studio have been
declared winners and finalists in state, national, and international piano competitions and
he currently serves as national competitions chair for the Music Teachers National Association.
Mr. Clark is a nationally recognized clinician in the field of music technology and he is chair
of the committee on technology for the Georgia Music Teachers Association. He is the creator
on numerous Internet-based resources for musicians including web pages such as "The Piano in
CyberSpace" and Internet mail lists: Pno-Ped-L and Chopin-L. Mr. Clark is co-editor of the
Piano Pedagogy Forum, an on-line publication of the School of Music at the University
of South Carolina and he is co-founder and editor of Student Editions, an on-line
concern providing standard teaching literature, edited for the special concerns of piano
students. Mr. Clark serves on the faculty of the Schwob Department of Music at Columbus
State University where he teaches Piano, Piano Pedagogy, Group Piano, and Music Technology.
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Nigel Coxe
is a Jamaican-born, British-trained pianist
living in the U. S. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in
London, where he studied with Harold Craxton, he has also served as a professor at the Academy.
He is currently professor of music at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and he combines
his teaching with an active schedule of recitals and lecturing. He has performed
widely in Europe, Great Britain, and America. He has appeared as soloist with the London Philharmonic,
the London Symphony, the Hallé Orchestra, and many others. He has also given recitals for the
Australian Broadcasting Commission in Sydney and has made numerous solo and concerto
appearances for the BBC London. The New York Times has written, "He goes to the heart of
his music in modestly straightforward fashion, leading from expressive strength and shunning any
sort of virtuoso exaggerations." The Times (London) has called him "a musician's pianist to the core."
Mr. Coxe has made two very well-received CDs, both available on the Titanic label:
Music of Percy Grainger and Showstoppers, a disc featuring the music of Gershwin, Grainger, and
Eubie Blake. Both have received worldwide critical acclaim. Recently he was also a member of the
International Jury for the Concours de Musique du Canada in Montreal.
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Nancy Hill Elton
is a native of Columbia,
South Carolina, and she received the Bachelor of Music degree in piano and voice from
the University of South Carolina where she studied piano with
John Kenneth Adams. She holds a Doctorate of
Musical Arts in piano from the University of Texas where she studied with John Perry.
An accomplished singer, she also earned a DMA from Texas in voice. Further study
included chamber music and accompanying at the Music Academy of the West in Santa
Barbara, California, and study in Duluth with Frank Mannheimer.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships and has competed at the
national level, including the Naumburg Piano Competition and the Music Teachers' National
Association (MTNA) piano competition, in which she was a national finalist in 1972. She
recently performed Beethoven's third Concerto with the Coastal Symphony of Georgia at St.
Simon's Island and will be returning there next year for solo performances as well as
another concerto. She has taught applied piano and voice, class piano, coach accompanying,
and sight-reading at Clayton State College in Morrow, Georgia, and the Georgia Academy of Music,
and she held an interim position last year teaching piano majors at Georgia State University.
Currently, she is teaching at the Atlanta Music Academy and also maintains a private studio in
her home in Atlanta.
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Rita Fandrich
studied with Helen Venn, who was trained by Matthay.
Her additional teachers have included Karen Shaw and Larry Graham. She is currently Associate Professor of Music at Florida Southern
College in Lakeland, where her teaching areas are piano, piano pedagogy, and
music theory. As a performer, she is active both as soloist and chamber
ensemble musician. Her students have been first prize winners in piano
competitions including the Clara Wells National Scholarship Audition, The
Florida Orchestra Young Artist Competition Junior Division and Senior
Division Grand Prize, The Florida State Music Teachers Concerto Competitions,
the Gray Perry Piano Competition, and the Ocala Symphony Young Artist
Competition. An active member of the Florida State Music Teachers
Association, she serves on the State Executive Board and is frequently
invited as adjudicator and as clinician for piano master classes and
workshops. She studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and
holds the Bachelor of Music cum laude from Cornell College of Iowa and the
Master of Music in performance from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has
pursued work toward the doctorate at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Donald Hageman
has taught privately
and performed in the Dayton, Ohio, area for
more than forty years. He has studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music,
the University of Dayton, and the College-Conservatory of Music at the
University of Cincinnati. His piano studies were with Ada Clyde Gallagher,
Beryl Rubinstein, Frances Bolton Kortheuer, and Madeline Bostian Rider, a
pupil of Tobias Matthay. He is a past President of the American Matthay
Association, he served as a member of the piano faculty at Wright State
University from 1976-83, and for seventeen years was Director of Concerts
for the Dayton Art Institute. He is also the Founder/Director of the Soirées
Musicales Piano Series, which recently completed its thirty-first season,
Since 1963, he has appeared every year but one as a recitalist and/or
lecturer at the annual Matthay Festivals held throughout the United States
and in Canada. In 1999 he appeared as soloist with Dayton's Miami Valley
Symphony Orchestra in two performances of the
Tchaikovsky G Major Concerto and again in February 0f 2001 in two
performances of the Mozart Concerto K. 467 and Chopin's Andante Spianato
and Grande Polonaise Brilliante.
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Robin Harrison
was born in London, where
he studied with Frederick Bailey of High Wycombe before winning a
scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Harold Craxton. After
being presented with the Silver Medal and Albanesi Prize, he was awarded an Italian Government
Scholarship for further studies in Rome, where he was offered a place in Carlo Zecchi's class at
the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Later, he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and ultimately, he
returned to London to work under the guidance of Ilona Kabos. He has been heard in frequent
broadcasts for the BBC and other European and South American
radio networks, and his many concerts include several appearances at the Cheltenham Festival
of British Contemporary Music and the Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in
London. On the occasion of his long-awaited debut at Carnegie Recital Hall the New
York Times observed, "Robin Harrison is an impressive pianist." The former
Head of Piano in the Department of Music at the University of Saskatchewan, Mr. Harrison
has made guest appearances with leading Canadian orchestras and is well known to Canadian
audiences for his many recital broadcasts on the CBC. He has performed at the Centre D'Arts Orford in
Quebec and has been a guest artist for the American Liszt Society Festivals in Canada and the United
States.
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Marie Hasse
holds a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from the
University
of Central Florida, where she studied with Gary Wolf. She is Head of Keyboard Studies at Polk
Community College and she also teaches privately in the Winter Haven Area. She is currently the
President of the Bach Festival of Central Florida, a past president of the Florida State Music
Teachers Association, and
she frequently adjudicates for FSMTA student events. As Southeastern Regional Junior Festivals
Chairman, she is also active in the student events of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs. Ms.
Hasse has served as Secretary for the American Matthay Association and has frequently lectured at the AMA's annual festivals. She performs in
chamber music recitals in the area and lectures on piano pedagogy. In recent years, she has
worked extensively to publicize the contributions of Helen Parker Ford, a Matthay pupil who
specialized in teaching his principles to younger children. Ms. Hasse is also the organist for
First Presbyterian Church in Haines City.
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Kenneth Huber
teaches at Carleton College in Minnesota and resides in both
New York City and Minneapolis. Hundreds of solo and concerto performances have taken him
throughout the country including frequent appearances in New York City. Additionally he has
given master classes and lectures at major colleges and universities. His career often embraces
chamber music and collaboration with opera singers of the Metropolitan, New York City, and
Vienna State Opera companies. From 1968 to 1972 he served as pianist with the United States
Navy Band in Washington, D. C., including performances at the White House and State Department.
In addition to private teaching, he has taught at Virginia Intermont College, Westminster Choir
College (Princeton, New Jersey), and Augsburg College. Mr. Huber holds degrees from Indiana
University and has studied with Leon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebok, and Frank
Mannheimer.
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Milton Kidd
is
the current Treasurer of the American Matthay Association.
He holds the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor Emeritus from The American University in
Washington, D.C., where he was a member of the piano faculty for thirty-one years. Ten of those
years were in combination with his post as Director of A.U.'s Preparatory Music Division. In
1981 he was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the University-wide,
Adjunct Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. His principal piano studies were with Charles
Crowder and the late Evelyn Swarthout (a student of Tobias Matthay). He has been a frequent
performer in the Washington area as well as the presenter of numerous lectures on piano
technique and pedagogy in this country and Canada, and has lectured at AMA festivals in
Toronto, Pittsburgh, and San Jose. With Evelyn Swarthout, he performed the Canadian premiere
of the Sonata for Two Pianos by Esther Williamson Ballou. Mr. Kidd's students have been prize
winners in many D.C. area and national competitions, including the International Stravinsky
Awards, Washington's National Symphony Young Soloists' Competition and the Clara Wells
Auditions. A thirty-two-year member and supporter of the American Matthay Association, he has
been a member of the Board and was for seventeen years Chairman of the Clara Wells Piano
Scholarship Auditions.
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Anne Koscielny
is a native of Florida and she began
her piano studies at the age of six. Since then, she has performed in solo recitals, with
orchestras, and in chamber music ensembles throughout the United States, in Central and South
America, Europe, and Asia. Winner of many awards and prizes, including first prize in the
Kosciuszko Chopin Competition in New York City, and first prize in the
National Guild of Piano Teachers Recording Competition, she received the Bachelor of Music
(with Distinction) from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Cécile Staub Genhart.
She then received a full scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music, where she earned her
Master of Music studying with Robert Goldsand. She has also studied with Frank Mannheimer and she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study in Vienna. Her London debut in 1972 was received with great critical success. The Daily Telegraph described her performance as filled with "Fire and feeling. Outstanding interpretations. Power and control. This was a remarkable debut." Koscielny has also performed the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas in eight recitals at the University of Hartford, University of Maryland, and Centenary College (Shreveport, Louisiana). At Yale University, she has performed the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Syoko Aki. Well-known in the greater Washington area, Koscielny has performed for the Washington Performing Arts Society (Kennedy Center), the National Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Collection. As convention artist for several state Music Teachers Associations, she has performed and lectured in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Connecticut. Other concerts, master classes, lectures, and workshops have taken her to more than sixty college and university campuses. She has appeared as festival artist for the Maryland International Piano Festival, the American Matthay Association, and the Frank Mannheimer Festival.
In chamber concerts, Koscielny has performed with the New Hungarian, American, Emerson, New
World, and Guarneri String Quartets. For twelve years, she was Artist-in-Residence at Taos
School of Music (New Mexico), a renowned summer school for strings and piano. Having served
often on the Fulbright Screening Committee, she has also adjudicated the Gina Bachauer
Competition, the Maryland International Piano Competition, the Young Keyboard Artists'
Association and numerous other competitions throughout the United States, Canada and Brazil.
Over the years, many of her students have won major competitions and gone on to establish
careers in teaching and performing. Formerly a professor of piano at the Hartt School of
Music (University of Hartford) Anne Koscielny joined the faculty of the University of
Maryland at College Park in the fall of 1988. Since then, she has been active as a recitalist,
orchestral soloist, chamber musician (pianist of the Altair Trio) and lecturer. Most recently,
she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts grant to record the thirty-two Sonatas of
Beethoven. She resides in Washington with her husband, pianist and teacher Raymond Hanson.
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George Loring
is the current President
of the American Matthay Association, and has formerly served as the Association's Vice President and
Secretary. He holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance with Honors from the New England Conservatory
of Music and a B.A. cum laude (in Music) from Harvard with additional study at the Eastman School of Music
and Oberlin. His early training was with Albion Metcalf, a pupil of Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthay. He
also studied for three summers in England with Denise Lassimonne, the ward of Tobias Matthay and former
faculty of the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School and the Royal Academy of Music, London. Other teachers
include Leonard Shure, Jacob Maxin, and Dusi Mura. He is currently Artist-in-Residence in the Music Department
at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, where he teaches Applied Piano, Collaborative Piano, Piano Ensemble,
Piano Pedagogy, Music Theory and Aural Skills. Mr. Loring appears frequently throughout New England as a solo
recitalist, collaborative artist, chamber musician, lecturer, and adjudicator. He has appeared in concert in
Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden
Switzerland, Spain, and Hawaii, on New Hampshire public radio and television and on numerous concert series
in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has also performed at the Crane School of Music, at Harvard University,
at the Addison Gallery of Art, at the Bronson-Hutensky Theater in Hartford, at Roulette and Symphony Space in
New York City, at Jordan Hall in Boston and was the pianist for the Monadnock Chorus at Carnegie Hall in New
York City. Highlights of past seasons include performances of the Poulenc Sextet with the Dorian Wind Quintet,
Mozart's Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 449, with the Jupiter Symphony, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5
("Emperor"), and Mozart's Piano
Concerto No. 21, K. 467, with the Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra, and Carnival of the Animals with both the
Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra and the New Hampshire Philharmonic, and complete cycles of the Mozart and
Brahms violin sonatas. He is a member of the Monadnock Trio with oboist Sussan Henkel and bassoonist Joy
Flemming.
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