Matthay Festival 2013
Western Carolina University

Recitalists and Presenters



John Kenneth Adams

has traveled the globe presenting recitals, “Piano Portraits," master classes and lecture-recitals to audiences in 22 countries. He has successfully blended a wide choice of repertoire with his unique ability to speak about music in terms that bring audiences closer to the music. Long known for his powerful performances of French repertoire, including the complete piano music of Claude Debussy, he has also made a strong reputation as an exponent of major works of Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. Adams began his studies in Alabama, later attending the University of Missouri at Kansas City and the Yale School of Music. A Fulbright enabled him to attend the Royal Academy of Music in London, and later studies took him to Milan and Paris. His principal teachers include Bruce Simonds at Yale, Hilda Dederich in London and Ilonka Deckers-Kuzler in Milan. For a period of ten years he also coached with American pianist Frank Mannheimer. A strong connection to the German-Austrian tradition came through his early lessons with Carl Friedberg, one of the last students of Clara Schumann and a friend of Johannes Brahms. John Kenneth Adams first drew critical attention with a series of recitals in Washington, DC, including the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection and the Maryland Piano Festival. Critic Paul Hume noted in the Washington Post his performance of Schumann's Carnaval, “played with a deep-in-the-keys tone and and fine fluency." A later performance at the Maryland Festival drew raves from the Washington Post: “Everything he does reveals an artist who thinks and feels for himself.” His long association with the United States Information Service took him five times to South America, and also to Spain, Italy, and South Korea. In South America he performed over 150 recitals in every type of venue, from great concert halls to more arduous locations, including remote locations in Chile, Peru, and Columbia, for which he received high praise from the U.S. State Department. The leading newspaper in Chile remarked that his “Schubert seemed to come to us direct from its original sources." Adams taught at the University of Texas in Austin, and later for over 40 years at the University of South Carolina School of Music, where he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He teaches each summer for the South Eastern Piano Festival, and travels frequently to London, where he has a wide circle of musical associates. John Kenneth Adams has received the Award of Merit from Yale University, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South Carolina Music Teachers Association, an Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Mungo Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of South Carolina. In 2012 he was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the State of South Carolina by Governor Nicki Halley.




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Carl Angelo

has performed organ, piano, and chamber concerts in Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, and Michigan. His organ teachers have included Larry Smith, John D. Herr, and John Ferguson. Dr. Angelo also received extensive piano training from pianist Nellie Whittaker (a pupil of Guy Maier), a graduate of Julliard, and has coached additionally with Dr. Gary Wolf. Dr. Angelo has lectured and performed for the American Matthay Piano Festival, and has also co-edited with Marie Hasse, materials based upon the ideas of Matthay pupil Helen Parker Ford. Dr. Angelo is the Minister of Music/Organist at First Congregational Church, Saginaw, Michigan where he directs a comprehensive music ministry program consisting of adult and children’s choirs, handbell choir, recorder consort, and Musical Arts Series. Prior to his arrival at First Congregational Church in Saginaw, Michigan, Dr. Angelo served churches in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, Indianapolis, IN, and Winter Haven, FL. He is also the rehearsal pianist for the Saginaw Choral Society. He is a 1991 graduate of Indiana University with a doctorate in organ performance. He has a B.M. in Music Education and an M.M. in Sacred Music from Kent State University and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honorary Society.

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Richard Becker

is head of piano studies at the University of Richmond. He is active as a recitalist, composer, chamber musician, and poet, and his playing has been acclaimed in Europe and America. Performing on many college campuses over the years, and frequently touring the eastern United States, he has also performed at venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the National Gallery of Art, the French Embassy, the Library of Congress, and at the Hudson River, Kemper, Virginia, and Spencer Museums. In Paris he has performed at the Salle Cortot and Salle Michelet in Paris where he has six times been artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts. Richard Becker’s music has been commissioned by Meet the Composer Grants, by grants from CRS Records, by the Peabody Trio in conjunction with the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and he has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow and nominee for an American Academy of Arts and Letters award. His performances and his music have been heard on NPR, Voice of America, WNYC, WETA, WGMS, and WCVE, and at the American Music Festival of the National Gallery of Art. They have also been featured at CMS and MTNA conferences and during residencies at Marshall, James Madison, Eastern Mennonite Universities,the Longy School of Music and the Peabody and New England Conservatories and at the Eastman School of Music. He coached chamber music alongside the late Blanche Moyse and he performed and coached chamber music with members of the Shanghai Quartet during their the decade of an artist-residency at University of Richmond Richard Becker’s playing has been cited for its “powerful interpretations” by the Washington Post, for being “admirable in taste and technique” by the New York Times, and for being “brilliant and with seamless passagework and elegant phrasing” by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. His playing is grounded in the tradition of Arthur Schnabel acquired during his study with the late Leonard Shure while at Boston University (M. Mus.). His teaching owes much to the relaxation methods of Tobias Matthay, learned from Cécile Staub Genhart during his years at the Eastman School of Music (B.Mus. and Performers Certificate). He taught at the University of Texas and Boston University prior to joining the music faculty of the University of Richmond in 1975. In recent years, Richard Becker’s poetry has been published by America, Columbia Magazine, Visions-International, Cold Mountain and Poetica Magazine: Contemporary Jewish Writing and Art and his poetic sequence, “FATES,”was a 2008 chapbook of The Literary Review. Hiscompositions have been recorded by CRS and his performances are available on Albany Records.

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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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Donald Hageman

has taught privately and performed in the Dayton, Ohio, area for more than fifty years. He 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 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 International Piano Series, which recently completed its fortieth (and final) season. He is a past President and presently, Archivist, of the American Matthay Association, and since 1963, 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 2004 he was awarded the organization's First Annual Distinguished Service Award. In 1999 he appeared as soloist with Dayton's Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra in performances of the Tchaikovsky G Major Concerto, and subsequently in performances of the Mozart Concerto, K. 467, and Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brilliante. He also performed the Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Theme and Liszt's Totentanz, playing a 1913 Erard Concert Grand which he has restored.


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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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Mary Pendleton Hoffer

has performed as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral keyboardist, and accompanist in the United States, Mexico, and England. She made her London solo debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in 1984, and she has appeared as a soloist with the Phoenix Symphony, and the Amarillo and Lubbock Symphonies. For many years she served as Keyboardist for the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Principal Keyboardist for the Sun Cities Symphony. She has also served as Keyboardist for The Florida Orchestra in Tampa. She is a member of many chamber ensembles, including the Bel Canto Players, and frequently performs with singers. Her summer festival appearances include the Sedona Chamber Music Festival, the New Hampshire Music Festival, and the Park City International Chamber Music Festival. She began to play the piano before she was three years old, studying with her father, Samuel Pendleton, a student of Tobias Matthay. At the age of five, she was the youngest performer ever to participate in the Berkeley (California) Bach Festival, and she later was a prize winner in the Chicago Young Artists Competition. She graduated as Salutatorian from Interlochen Arts Academy, and completed Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at Texas Tech University. She studied in England with Denise Lassimonne, Martino Tirimo and Gwenneth Pryor, completing graduate diplomas at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University. She has taught at Texas Tech University, Arizona State University, and in the Maricopa County (AZ) Community Colleges. She is married to Warren Hoffer, a retired professor of voice at ASU, with whom she often performs.


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Terry McRoberts

is the current President of the American Matthay Association for Piano. A former editor of the Matthay News, McRoberts wrote an article about Matthay for Clavíer Companion, and gave a presentation on Matthay principles for the national conference of Music Teachers National Association. He has served Tennessee Music Teachers Association as president and editor of Tennessee Music Teacher, contributed reviews of new music for Piano Guild Notes, and currently is president of the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society. He is University Professor of Music at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, where he teaches private piano and related courses, and is coordinator of keyboard studies and of concerts and recitals. A former governor of Province 15 for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, he is faculty advisor to the Iota Sigma Chapter. He performs frequently as a soloist and a collaborative musician and with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra. He has made numerous presentations for the American Matthay Association for Piano, the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society, and various music teacher groups, as well as in China, Japan, Brazil, and Haiti. A church organist for over twenty-five years, he currently plays at First United Methodist Church in Jackson, Tennessee.


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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 Cécile 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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Ann Sears

is a former 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. His biography of Matthay, England's Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay, was published by Scarecrow Press in December of 2011. 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 Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the forthcoming New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and his other articles include pieces for the American Musical Instrument Society Journal, Symposium (the journal of the College Music Society), and the Piano Journal of the European Piano Teachers' Association. He has also recently annotated a series of CDs for APR commemorating Matthay's pupils—including Harriet Cohen, Irene Scharrer, and Myra Hess—as well as a forthcoming Hyperion disc of the solo works of Charles Griffes performed by Garrick Ohlsson. 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, including a scheduled three-lecture series on Wright's early work to occur in Chicago in July of 2013. He has recently signed a contract with Scarecrow Press to author A Dictionary for the Modern Pianist, scheduled to appear in 2015, as a component of Scarecrow's musical instrument dictionary series. 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. A professor emeritus of music at Wittenberg University in Ohio, he now lives in Tempe, Arizona.


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Dan Franklin Smith,

who resides in New York City, recently returned from Germany where he performed in, among other venues, Kurt Weill Zentrum in Dessau and the Lucas Cranach Hof in Wittenberg. As a solo recitalist, he made his European debut at Mariefred Kyrkan in Sweden in 1997, where he received a standing ovation and was hailed by the reviewer as "unequivocally one of the most brilliant pianists I have had the pleasure of hearing and reviewing!" Mr. Smith's debut recording of the Kurt Atterberg Concerto (a premiere recording) was released in September. He offered this work for his Swedish orchestral debut in October of 1998, with Maestro 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 SVT's Musikspegeln, which was broadcast throughout Sweden soon afterwards. Other European engagements have included Oslo and Paris. His 1999-2000 schedule features orchestral appearances in England with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and with the Sofia Orchestra in Stockholm, in addition to recitals in London, Stockholm and Leipzig. In the United States he has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist at such venues as the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Cleveland Museum's Distinguished Artist Series, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. In the 1999-2000 season he will perform solo recitals in Maryland, Ohio, New Jersey, Virginia, California and New York. This fall he will also perform the Robert Schumann Piano Concerto with Maestro Jean-Pierre Schmitt and the Lawyers Orchestra in NYC. Mr. Smith's work as a solo artist has been described as "breathtakingly beautiful . . . . The dazzling, agile finger work left the audience in utter awe of Smith's technical skill and beauty of tone . . . . His quiet sincere and straight forward manner relies on an economy of movement and energy which allows him introspection into the core of the music."

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Jane Luther Smith

 is a former winner of the Clara Wells Scholarship Auditions and she holds the Licentiate Performer's Diploma in Piano from London's Royal Academy of Music. Her work with first-generation Matthay students includes extensive study with Denise Lassimonne in England and additional work with the late Frank Mannheimer. She received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees (cum laude Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of South Carolina where her teachers included John Williams and John Kenneth Adams. Miss Smith was also a student of the late Elizabeth Newell at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. Her experience as a performer has been varied, including appearances in England, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, California, Minnesota, and Canada. In 1976 she was the winner of the AMA's Clara Wells Piano Auditions held at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and she was the recipient of a Chattanooga Cotton Ball Fellowship for advanced study in music in competitions held at the University of Tennessee (Chattanooga). She has been a featured performer both on the South Carolina Educational TV and Radio networks. She was the winner of the 1996 "Woman of Achievement Award" in the area of fine arts presented by the YWCA of the Upper Lowlands, Inc. In addition to her demand as a solo recitalist, she is on the music faculty of the University of South Carolina Sumter and has taught Music Fundamentals for Central Carolina Technical College. Jane Luther Smith is listed on the South Carolina Arts Commission Approved Performing Artist Roster. She is owner of Jane Luther Smith Piano Studios in Sumter.



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Raymond Songayllo

 earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano from Northwestern University. He studied at Aspen, in New York with Alexander Uninsky and Grant Johannesen, and in Boston with Alexander Borovsky. He has performed throughout the U.S. and has appeared twice at Carnegie Recital Hall. As a composer, he has had works presented in various venues, college and university events, festivals and conferences, and in Fontainebleau, working in composition at the Conservatoire Americaine. He won the Keyboard Category Award at the Delius Competition at Jacksonville University in 1976, 1992, and 1993. He has received grants from both the Minnesota Composers Forum and Meet the Composer. After 27 years of college/university teaching, he is currently performing, lecturing, composing, and adjudicating. In June of 1990, he made his European debut with two solo recitals in Geneva under the auspices of Concerts Atlantique of New York. Mr. Songayllo is a founding member of the Iowa Composers Forum, and was the recipient of the 1993 Pyle Commission for his Piano Quintet. In the summer of 1994 he was one of 18 pianists at the French Piano Institute in Paris, appearing in recital at the Salle Cortot. In June 1995 he performed a lecture/recital at the College Music Society International Conference in Berlin. In July of 1996 he again performed at the Salle Cortot, and also premiered a new composition, Hommage à Fauré, in the Salle Munch of the École Normale. In the 1996-97 season, Mr. Songayllo has appeared as soloist and composer in various venues, including, again, at the College Music Society Conference in Vienna. His compositions include works for solo piano, harpsichord, piano with instrumental combinations, songs, orchestral compositions. His style is eclectic, employing both tonal and non-tonal styles.





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David Watkins

is a concert pianist, teacher and a member of the piano faculty at Kennesaw State University. Mr. Watkins made his solo recital debut in New York at Carnegie Recital Hall in May 1986. His students have received recognition on state, national and international levels. Mr. Watkins has released three commercial recordings on the ACA Digital label. He has also served on the summer artist faculty of the Eastern Music Festival Mr. Watkins is certified as a master teacher by the Music Teachers National Association. He was President of the American Matthay Association 1994-1998, and was president of Georgia Music Teachers Association from 1994-1996. Mr. Watkins is an international Steinway Artist. Mr. Watkins is active as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist and collaborative performer with an unusually varied repertoire at his command. He has performed on the national convention programs of the Music Teachers National Association (Little Rock, Nashville, Salt Lake City), the American Matthay Association (Dayton Art Institute, San Jose State University, Penn State University), the American Liszt Society, the College Music Society (St. Louis, Toronto). and the International Conference on the Arts and Humanities in Honolulu. He has performed with the Atlanta Virtuosi Chamber Ensemble in and around his home base of Atlanta and has made appearances with them in such prestigious places as the University of Mexico and the North American Cultural Institute in Mexico City. He has appeared as concerto soloist with many regional orchestras, including the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, Cobb Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Wind Symphony and DeKalb Symphony Orchestra. He has performed solo recitals throughout the United States, from California to Massachusetts, under the auspices of many colleges, universities and community concert series. He also performed regularly with ‘cellist Roger Drinkall; the duo toured throughout the Midwest and South under the auspices of Allied Concert Services. Mr. Watkins has accompanied Metropolitan Opera sopranos Irene Jordan, Linda Zoghby and Patricia Craig in recital.


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Signe Sebo Zale

has studied with Cécile Genhart, Frank Mannheimer, and Frank Glazer. She has taught privately in the Rochester area for more than 30 years, and adjudicated for the National Guild of Piano Teachers for more than 35 years. An active performer in the Rochester area as both soloist and collaborator, she is a member of the Rochester Morning Musicale and the Rochester Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon. She is also District Director for Mu Phi Epsilon's Eastern Great Lakes Province One and she mentors chapters at the Eastman School of Music and Ithaca College. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Eastman in piano performance and pedagogy, and while there she performed as soloist with the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra. She also holds a Master's degree in Counseling from the University of Rochester and is the retired Director of Guidance for the Churchville-Chili Central School District in suburban Rochester. In the summer of 2005 she presented a workshop for school counselors at the Eastman Summer Session on "Career Counseling for Music Students.”

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