James Fogle
is presently a professor of
music at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he teaches piano, courses in music history and literature, and
music research. He has degrees from Elon College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His principal teachers
include Louise Mathis, Gene Featherstone, Michael Zenge, and Francis Whang. He has studied and coached with John
Kenneth Adams, Claude Frank, David Burge, Barbara Rowan, Stephen Drury, and Seymour Bernstein. He has done much
collaborative work with area singers and instrumentalists. He has a special interest in contemporary music and is
currently developing a program focused on piano music emanating from New York during the 1920s. Longer range
plans include a series of workshops focusing on legacies of twentieth-century style with respect to piano literature.
Recitals and special programs during recent years have included the Beethoven Sonatas, Op. 31; a one-man show
based on Schumann’s Kreisleriana; a program on piano music from the far corners of the world (“The Global Piano”),
and a program on the relationship between George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. He has been an active member of the
North Carolina Music Teachers Association and is a past president of that organization.
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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 he was Director of Concerts
for the Dayton Art Institute. He is also the Founder/Director of the Soirées
Musicales Piano Series, which is now in 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 of 2001 in two
performances of the Mozart Concerto K. 467 and Chopin's Andante Spianato
and Grande Polonaise Brilliante. In April 2003 he again appeared with the MVSO
in a performance of Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Tune, which he performed
on a rare 90-keyed 1912 Erard, which he recently rebuilt. He performed with the MVSO again in
May of 2005, performing Liszt's Totentanz.
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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 is presently serving as Secretary for the American Matthay Association for
the second time 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
is a member of the piano faculty of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota,
having been appointed in 1990. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree from Indiana
University in 1967, and completed his Master of Music Degree with Honors in 1972. His study of the piano began at age four
with his aunt, and continued with Shirley Shaffer of the Matthay School. While at Indiana University, he studied with Gyorgy
Sebok and spent summers in Duluth, Minnesota, studying with the late Frank Mannheimer. From 1969 to 1973, he studied
privately with internationally-known pianist and conductor Leon Fleisher of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
Mr. Huber has concertized extensively throughout the United States since making his solo debut at age fourteen in Colorado
Springs. He appears frequently on radio and television, including a widely-broadcast video tape for the University of North
Carolina Public Television; a live radio broadcast on WQXR, New York City; and on Minnesota Public Radio including its prestigious "Live from Landmark" series. His performances have taken him to hundreds of cities in over thirty-five states including engagements at the Indianapolis, Toledo, and Minneapolis Museums of Art, the Bakken Library, the Walker Art Center, and Steinway Hall. In addition he has been heard frequently as soloist with regional orchestras, including the Colorado Philharmonic; the Gulf Coast Symphony; the Fairbanks, Alaska, Symphony; the Chattanooga Symphony; the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra; and the Richmond Sinfonia. He has also appeared in recital as accompanist for many leading singers, including opera stars of the Metropolitan, New York City, Vienna, and La Scala Operas.
In 1968 Mr. Huber began a four-year tour of duty as concert pianist with the United States Navy Band in Washington, DC.
In addition to numerous appearances with the Concert Band, he played over 350 engagements as accompanist for the Sea
Chanters, the official Navy Chorus, appearing at the White House, the State Department, and for world dignitaries and government officials throughout the United States.
Mr. Huber currently resides in New York City and Minneapolis, where he teaches privately in addition to his college
teaching appointments. He has been actively involved in music education since 1960 maintaining his own private studios,
college teaching positions, and appearing as guest lecturer and master teacher for colleges, universities, and professional
organizations. He counts among his former students many scholarship and prize winners who are actively pursuing
musical careers as distinguished performers, teachers, and church musicians. He is sought out by professional and
amateur performing pianists alike who continue to study well beyond their conservatory training.
During the 1989-90 academic year, Mr. Huber commuted to Princeton, New Jersey, where he served as Adjunct
Professor of Piano at Westminster Choir College. From 1974-1987 he was tenured Professor of Piano at Virginia
Intermont College in Bristol, Virginia, and was Founder and Director of Celebrity Concerts, a series which presented
an extensive array of internationally-acclaimed artists. He also served ten years on the piano faculty of Augsburg
College in Minneapolis. In 1987 he was Artist-in-Residence for the theater department at Gardner-Webb College.
During the summers he has presented lectures and recitals at both the American Matthay Association Festivals and
the Mannheimer Piano Festivals, for which he was Artistic Director. He is often asked to adjudicate for national
scholarship competitions and auditions, including the MTNA, the San Antonio International Keyboard Competition,
the Miss Kentucky Pageant, and St. Paul's Schubert Club. He is an active member of several professional musical
organizations and has served two terms as panelist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
During the 1977-78 season, Mr. Huber's recitals featured the United States premiere of the Piano Sonata
by Kenton Coe, distinguished American composer, including a performance at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC. The following season included the West Coast premiere of that work in a San Francisco debut recital
at the Old First Center for the Performing Arts. In 1981 he made his Carnegie Recital Hall (now Weill Recital Hall)
debut with cellist Paul Lawrence in New York City.
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Elizabeth Lauer
holds a B.A. from
Bennington College, where her teachers
included Julian DeGray and Claude Frank, and an M.A. from Columbia University.
She also studied composition with Otto Luening and Lionel Nowak. She spent all
six years at these schools on full scholarship. She then received a Fulbright
Scholarship to study with composer Phillip Jarnach, who was Director of the
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. Upon her return from Europe, she
worked at Columbia Records as Assistant to the President, Goddard Lieberson.
She is highly active as a composer, and her compositions are principally in
the area of chamber music and vocal works. She has also written orchestral
pieces, an opera, music for dance and ballet, incidental theatre music, plus
an assortment of pieces for various solo instruments. She does a great deal
of arranging as well. Her compositions are published by Arsis Press, Carl
Fischer, Boston Music Company and Kjos Publishers; they are also obtainable
in A.C.A.'s Composer Editions. Recordings on CD are available on the Newport Classics,
Capstone and I Virtuosi labels, the last of which is an all-Lauer disc of piano works
entitled "Five Flower Rags." played by the composer. Lauer's compositions are widely
performed, and have been well reviewed, both in this country and abroad. She has won
many prizes and several commissions, and has served as composer-in- residence. She has
been the subject of two one-woman concert programs, both of which were performed in New
York City and Connecticut. A busy pianist, both as soloist and chamber music player, she
has appeared in concert halls, on television, radio and in video format from Maine to
Florida, from New York to Michigan. This includes fifteen solo recitals at Lincoln
Center. As a teacher, she has worked most recently for years as Professor in the Music
Department of the University of Bridgeport, with responsibilities for piano, theory,
ear training, and computers-in-music. She pioneered a muIti-disciplinary course which
featured works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Mann and Nietzsche, on the subject of revolution
in the arts. She has also taught Music Appreciation at Norwalk Community College.
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Marjorie Lee
is an independent studio teacher in Vienna, Virginia. She has taught over
30 years at the university and private levels as a member of the faculties of Western Michigan University, the University of
Maryland, Peabody Conservatory, and George Mason University, and has maintained a thriving private studio which is her
primary focus. Her students are consistent winners in national and international competitions which include the MTNA High
School and Junior High Competitions, the Stecher and Horowitz Competition, the International Bartok Competition, the Arts Recognition
and Talent Search of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition,
the National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition, the Chopin Foundation Scholarships, and the Clara Wells
Competition of the American Matthay Association. In 2006 her students were the winners of the Maryland and District of Columbia Junior High Competitions.
A prizewinner of the Kapell International, Washington International and Clara Wells Competitions, Ms. Lee has appeared
in recitals throught the United States and Europe, being selected as a United States Artistic Ambassador under the auspices of the United States Information Service and Voice of America. She has given U.S.
premieres of works of Henri Pousseur and world premieres of works by Benjamin Lees and Meyer Kupferman. As collaborative
and orchestral pianist, she has performed with Segei Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Raphael Fruhbeck de Burgos,
Mistislav Rostropovich, Alessandra Marc and William Warfield.
She received her doctorate at the University of Maryland where she was a student of Roy Hamlin Johnson and won the
Homer Ulrich Award as the Outstanding Graduate Student.
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Terry McRoberts
is Professor
of Music at Union University in Jackson,
Tennessee, where he teaches private and class piano and related courses.
He also serves as coordinator of keyboard studies and of concerts and
recitals. He is President of the Tennessee Music Teachers
Association, and he was the editor of the Tennessee Music Teacher for a
number of years. He performs frequently as a soloist and a
collaborative musician, and as a member of the Jackson Symphony
Orchestra. He is organist at United Methodist
Church in Jackson. He was a presenter at the International Conference of The
College Music Society in Kyoto, Japan, and was keyboard soloist in a
performance of Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto with the Jackson
Symphony Orchestra in November 2001.
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Thomas Mastroianni
is currently professor emeritus and a former dean of the Benjamin T. Rome School
of Music at Catholic University. He has studied with Beveridge Webster, Béla Nagy,
and Sidney Foster, and is known for his numerous concert appearances and master classes
throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, China, Korea,
and Russia. He is a recipient of the Franz Liszt Medal of the Hungarian Liszt Society,
and presently serves as President of the American Liszt Society. He holds two
degrees from The Juilliard School and a Mus.D. from Indiana University. He is a frequent
adjudicator and presenter of master classes and workshops on memory, technique, and
performance anxiety.
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Janice Larson Razaq
studied for several summers while in high school and college with
Frank Mannheimer in Duluth, Minnesota, and received her Bachelor of Music
Degree with Distinction from the Eastman School of Music as a student of
Cécile Genhart. A Fulbright Grant enabled her to study for three years at
the Royal Academy of Music in London with Hilda Dederich. While in Europe,
she was a medal winner in the Canals International Competition in Barcelona,
Spain, and the Viotti International Competition in Vercelli, Italy. Her London
debut at Wigmore Hall received excellent reviews. Mrs. Razaq also holds a Master
of Music Degree from the University of Illinois and has concertized extensively
in the Midwest, including performances on the "Live from Landmark" series on
Minnesota Public Radio and on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series from the Chicago
Public Library, broadcast live on WFMT. She has been a featured pianist with the
Mannheimer Piano Festival at the University of Minnesota in Duluth several times,
and portions of one of her recitals were later broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
Her performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra was
acclaimed by critics as "powerful and dazzling." She is active as an adjudicator, and
recently judged the international preliminaries and finals of the Grace Welsh Piano
Competition. She has played chamber music recitals with members of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, and was a featured soloist at Stringfest 1998 at Illinois State University.
Recent appearances include a July 1999 performance with the Lake Superior Chamber
Orchestra in Duluth. Mrs. Razaq is a member of the Harper College and Harper Music
Academy piano faculty in Palatine, Illinois. A past President of the Northwest
Suburban Music Teacher’s Association, she resides with her family in Algonquin,
Illinois, where she maintains a private studio.
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Richard Reber
is Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas,
where he has taught piano and piano literature since 1964. He is a graduate of the
Eastman School of Music, where he studied piano with Cecile Staub Genhart. In 1962
he received a Fulbright Scholarship for study at the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria.
He furthered his studies with Frank Mannheimer and in 1973 became a
founding member of the Mannheimer Piano Festival Association. Mr. Reber is an active
recitalist and is recognized as an outstanding lecture-recitalist in the field of twentieth-century
piano music as well as the traditional repertoire. He presents recitals,
lecture-recitals, and workshops throughout the United States and recently lectured and
performed in Japan. His orchestral appearances include the premieres of two concertos,
and he has performed with the Dorian Wind Quintet. Mr. Reber has received numerous research
grants from the University of Kansas. His recording of intermediate level twentieth-century
piano music, entitled Kanzona, was the result of one such grant.
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Lynn Rice-See
has
appeared as recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician in the United States
and in Europe. She has appeared three times with the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra in
Ostrava, Czech Republic. In the United States she made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut
in 1982, and since then she has appeared as soloist with the Gulf Coast Symphony, the
Huntsville Symphony, the Johnson City Symphony, and the Kingsport Symphony. In 1992,
she appeared in recital in Brussels, sponsored by the Ministere de la Communauté Français,
and her 1993 recital tour of Germany was sponsored by the German-American Institute in
Saarbrücken. She was a member of the Tennessee Arts Commission touring roster from 1991
through 1994. She holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory, where
she studied with Walter Hautzig, the Master of Music from the Juilliard School where she
studied with Beveridge Webster, and the Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of
Southern California, where she studied with John Perry. Currently she coaches with Walter
Hautzig and Sheila Paige. She is currently Professor of Piano at East Tennessee State
University. She is also a member of the faculties of the Adamant Music School in Vermont
and the Piano Wellness Seminar . Prior to coming to ETSU, she worked as an opera
coach/assistant conductor at the opera houses of Münster and Essen, Germany as well
as at Michigan Opera and Dayton Opera in the United States. She has also taught at the
Manhattan School of Music in New York and at William Carey College. In celebration of the
Tennessee Bicentennial she and mezzo-soprano Sharon Mabry issued a compact disc (on the
Heartdance label) of works by Tennessee composers. This disc contains world premiere
recordings of works for solo piano and mezzo-soprano and piano by Kenton Coe of Johnson
City, Michael Alec Rose of Nashville, Jeffrey Wood of Clarksville, and Michael Linton of
Murfreesboro. The song cycle by Kenton Coe, A Family Gathering, was commissioned
by Rice-See and Mabry and received its world premiere at ETSU in 1998.
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Neil Rutman
has distinguished himself as a top prize winner in several
international
competitions including the Busoni, Kapell, Casadesus, Joanna Hodges, Concert Artist Guild,
and International Johann
Sebastian Bach Competition. Mr. Rutman has received awards from the National Endowment for
the Arts and a grant
for Artistic Excellence from the Astral Foundation. He has appeared in Carnegie Hall, Alice
Tully Hall, Queen Elizabeth
Hall, and Tokyo's Bunka Kaikan. He has recorded two Mozart Piano Concerti on the ASV label
and an all-Poulenc CD,
with Emmy-Award-winning actor, Tony Randall providing the narration for The Story of Babar
the Little Elephant.
The Washington Post has written that his playing "met the highest standards and his
spotless articulation gave the whole
program unusual polish and virtuoso marks," and recently the New York Times stated
that "he won the audience over for
himself with exquisite performances—both commanding and full of character." A native of
California, Mr. Rutman is
Artist-in-Residence at the University of Central Arkansas. This year Mr. Rutman gave 64
narrated concerts to the children
of the Arkansas public schools throughout the state. A former collegiate boxer with an
amateur record of 6-0, Mr. Rutman
coaches the University of Central Arkansas Boxing Club.
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Ann Sears
is the current President of the American Matthay Association. She also
serves as Professor of Music and Director of Performance at Wheaton
College in Norton, Massachusetts, where she teaches piano and courses
in European and American music, including African-American music and
American musical theater. She holds degrees from the New England
Conservatory of Music, Arizona State University, and The Catholic
University of America, where her doctoral dissertation was about
American art song in turn-of-the-century Boston. She is well-known for
her performances and publications in American music, and has presented
papers and lecture recitals at national meetings of the Sonneck Society
for American Music, the College Music Society, and the American Matthay
Association. Concert appearances include the Badia di Cava Music
Festival in Italy, the Master Musicians Festival in Kentucky, the
Sumner School Museum and St. Patrick's in the City in Washington, D.C.,
the Gardner Museum and the French Library in Boston, and various
schools and universities in the United States. Her research interests
are American art song, the concert tradition in African American music,
and American opera and musical theater. A compact disc, Deep River: The Art Songs and
Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh, in collaboration with Oral Moses, bass, originally on
Northeastern Records, has been reissued by Albany Records; and a new disc, Fi-yer! A
Hundred Years of African-American Song, with tenor William Brown, was recently released
by Albany. She is currently review editor of the College Music Society journal Symposium
and membership secretary of the American Liszt Society.
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Stephen Siek
is a past President of the American Matthay Association and
is currently completing Marley's Host: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay, to be published
by Ashgate in 2007.
He has studied with Stewart Gordon, Donald Hageman, Frank Mannheimer, and Denise Lassimonne. He has concertized extensively throughout North America and in 1986 he performed the 24 preludes of Rachmaninoff in New York's
Lincoln Center. He made his London debut in 1988. His
numerous articles have appeared in such journals as the American Music Teacher and the
Piano
Quarterly, and in the summer 1993 issue of American Music he presented new research
concerning musical figures active in
post-Revolutionary Philadelphia. He is also a
contributor to the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
and
other recent articles include pieces for the American Musical Instrument Society
Journal
and Symposium, the journal of the College Music Society. His recording of
The Philadelphia
Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (c.1750-1809) was released on the Titanic label in 1998.
Siek's
interests have also extended to other areas of American history and culture, and he has
published and lectured widely on the earlier work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He holds
the B. Mus.
and the M. Mus. degrees from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the
College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. He currently serves on the
faculty of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.
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