Matthay Festival 2007
King College, Bristol, Tennessee


Recitalists and Presenters



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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