Master classes - Brief Article

American Music Teacher, Feb-March, 2004

PIANO

Jon Kimura Parker

Monday, March 29

Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker has performed with major orchestras throughout the world. A passionate music educator, Parker hosts the classical music television series Whole Notes on Bravo Canada and teaches a limited number of exceptional students at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

STRING

Brian Lewis

Sunday, March 28

Brian Lewis is associate professor of violin at The University of Texas at Austin School of Music, where he is the Fellow to the David and Mary Winton Green Endowed Chair in String Performance and Pedagogy. He also is the artistic director of the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School in New York City.

DOUBLE BASS

Jeff Bradetich

Sunday, March 28

Jeff Bradetich is regarded as one of the leading performers and teachers of the doublebass in the United States today. He is director of the largest doublebass program in the world at the University of North Texas.

INTERMEDIATE PIANO

Seymour Bernstein

Sunday, March 28

Seymour Bernstein is a sought-after clinician and a prolific composer. Bernstein maintains a private studio in New York City and is an adjunct associate professor of music and music education at New York University.

He performs with chamber ensembles and serves on the juries of a number of international competitions.

VOICE

Paul Kiesgen

Tuesday, March 30

Paul Kiesgen is professor of voice and chair of the voice department at Indiana University in Bloomington. Kiesgen holds an M.M. degree from Northwestern University.

He has given master classes and guest lectures throughout the U.S., Italy and China and is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.