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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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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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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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-Elect 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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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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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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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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Dan Franklin Smith,
a graduate of the University of Michigan, has been a concert performer, collaborative pianist, and vocal coach in New York for the past 30 years.
He has toured throughout the United States, and in 1997 he made his European debut at Mariefred Kyrkan in Sweden. In 1999
he performed at the Kurt Weill Zentrum in Dessau and the Lucas Cranach Hof in Wittenberg.
His debut recording was of the Kurt Atterberg Concerto
with the Gävle Orchestra, under B. Tommy Andersson, which was released in September 2000 by Sterling Productions in Stockholm. He also offered this work for his Swedish orchestral debut in October 1998, with Arne Johansson conducting the Sofia Orchestra. Svenska Dagbladet described his performance as marked by a "sensitive ear, strong sense of style and fine musicianship...more than anyone could wish for." The performance, the concerto, and Mr. Smith were featured on Swedish Television's Musikspegeln, which was broadcast throughout Sweden soon afterwards.
Other European engagements have included appearances in Oslo and Paris, and his 1999-2000 schedule featured orchestral engagements with the Sofia Orchestra in Stockholm, in addition to recitals in London, Stockholm, and Leipzig. While in Stockholm, he also recorded Swedish piano music for Sweden's classical music radio station, P2.
In 2002, Mr. Smith returned to London to present a revival of the piano concerto of British composer Arthur Hinton with the Lambeth Orchestra.
His concerts in 2003 included concerto and recital appearances in California, Ohio,
New York, and Tennessee, and in the summer, he recorded two piano concerti in Stuttgart: one a premiere by Swiss late-romantic composer Hans Huber. This recording, with the Stuttgart Philharmonic conducted by Michail Jurowski, was released in 2004 by Sterling Productions.
Since 2006, Mr. Smith has been music director for the Elysium-Between-Two Continents, with a Festival Bernried, near Munich, and New York performances. Its performances have included music by composers exiled and murdered by the Nazis, including the premiere of excerpts from Egon Lustgarten's opera Dante im Exil. Additionally, music by African-American composer/pianist Luckeyeth Roberts was presented at the Festival in Bernried.
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