John
Kenneth Adams
is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina
School of Music. He attended the University of Kansas City, Yale University, and the Royal Academy of Music, London. His teachers include Carl Friedberg,
Bruce Simonds, Hilda Dederich and Frank Mannheimer.
Professor Adams has performed at many Matthay Festivals, starting in 1966. His performance venues include Weill Recital Hall, the National Gallery, Wigmore
Hall, London, and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. He enjoyed a long association with the United States Information Services, presenting over 150 concerts in
South America, Europe, and the Far East. For many years he also presented radio series for the South Carolina Educational Network and gave presentations for
the South Carolina Humanities Council. At USC he was awarded a Venture Fund grant to perform the complete piano music of Debussy in five recitals. He also
documented the life of Debussy in three articles for the Piano Quarterly.
Professor Adams was awarded a Certificate of Merit from Yale University in 2000,and received the Mungo Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University
of South Carolina in 1998. On retirement, he created an endowment for French music at the Thomas Cooper Library, giving as the first gift one of only 250
copies of the first edition of “Monsieur Croche-antidilettante” by Claude Debussy.
Since retiring in 2004, Adams has continued to perform and give masterclasses, notably at the Varna International Masterclass in Varna, Bulgaria, and for
the European Music Teachers Association in Novi Sad, Serbia. He is a member of the Royal Over Seas League in London, and teaches each summer for the
Southeastern Piano Festival in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Greg
Anderson,
a former winner of the
Clara Wells Scholarship Auditions, has performed in Carnegie Hall, soloed with the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, released several CDs, and toured in North America, Asia, and Europe.
He has performed at major international venues, including Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo, Japan; the
Banff Centre in Canada; the Holders Festival in Barbados; the Cliburn Concert Series in Fort Worth;
the Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival in Salt Lake City; and Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall,
and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City. He released his first solo
album, On Wings of Song, in 2006 and is currently working on his second solo album, Bestiary.
He also performs regularly with his piano-duo partner, Elizabeth Joy Roe; they are known worldwide for
their revolutionary four-hand piano technique and joyous camaraderie.
As a composer, Greg has had works premiered at the Rose Bowl, Alice Tully Hall, and the Grand National
Theater in China, and he has filled in for John Williams on short notice. His compositions for The
5 Browns have appeared on the EMI, Sony/BMG, and E1 record labels. As an actor, Greg made his Broadway
debut in 2005 playing the role of “Vernon Duke” at NYC’s Playwright Horizons. Greg received his
Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School as a Jack Kent
Cooke Scholar; he is currently a candidate for the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Yale University.
His teachers have included Aiko Onishi and John Perry, and his interactive web site is
www.andersonpiano.com.
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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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Steve Clark
is a member of both the American
Matthay Association and the American Liszt Society. He appears frequently in recital and
often serves as an adjudicator for piano competitions. Students from his studio have been
declared winners and finalists in state, national, and international piano competitions and
he currently serves as national competitions chair for the Music Teachers National Association.
Mr. Clark is a nationally recognized clinician in the field of music technology and he is chair
of the committee on technology for the Georgia Music Teachers Association. He is the creator
on numerous Internet-based resources for musicians including web pages such as "The Piano in
CyberSpace" and Internet mail lists: Pno-Ped-L and Chopin-L. Mr. Clark is co-editor of the
Piano Pedagogy Forum, an on-line publication of the School of Music at the University
of South Carolina and he is co-founder and editor of Student Editions, an on-line
concern providing standard teaching literature, edited for the special concerns of piano
students. Mr. Clark serves on the faculty of the Schwob Department of Music at Columbus
State University where he teaches Piano, Piano Pedagogy, Group Piano, and Music Technology.
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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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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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Rita Fandrich
studied with Helen Venn, who was trained by Matthay.
Her additional teachers have included Karen Shaw and Larry Graham. She is currently Associate Professor of Music at Florida Southern
College in Lakeland, where her teaching areas are piano, piano pedagogy, and
music theory. As a performer, she is active both as soloist and chamber
ensemble musician. Her students have been first prize winners in piano
competitions including the Clara Wells National Scholarship Audition, The
Florida Orchestra Young Artist Competition Junior Division and Senior
Division Grand Prize, The Florida State Music Teachers Concerto Competitions,
the Gray Perry Piano Competition, and the Ocala Symphony Young Artist
Competition. An active member of the Florida State Music Teachers
Association, she serves on the State Executive Board and is frequently
invited as adjudicator and as clinician for piano master classes and
workshops. She studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and
holds the Bachelor of Music cum laude from Cornell College of Iowa and the
Master of Music in performance from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has
pursued work toward the doctorate at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Wendy Freeland
joined the music faculty of Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, in 2002. As an associate professor she teaches studio piano, class piano, music history and accompanying. Hailing from West Virginia, she completed her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance at the University of South Carolina under the tutelage of John Kenneth Adams. Her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance was received from Florida Atlantic University where she studied with Heather Coltman and Judith Burganger, and she was the first music student to complete both the academic and performance honors programs. She is the recipient of several performance and scholarship awards and was named University Scholar by the University.
She enjoys performing as soloist and collaborative artist. She has performed for both the Alabama Music Teachers State Conference and the Alabama Music Educators National Conference, as well as at universities and other venues throughout the country. She was honored to accept an invitation to present and perform at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia in June, 2011, and has performed in Sweden, Italy, and Korea. Dr. Freeland has performed with instrumentalists, vocalists and choral groups, and has extensive experience working in opera. She is a regular performer of faculty, guest and student recitals at Jacksonville State University.
Understanding music of the twentieth century through a cultural context has been Dr. Freeland’s research interest. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled "An Examination of the Promenades for Piano by Francis Poulenc" revealed the influences that shaped this composition. Her desire for the public to understand piano music by considering aspects of art and society led to her presentations of Poulenc's Promenades and Alberto Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas for the University of South Carolina's Cultural Enrichment Day. Jacksonville State University has granted her the annual "Faculty Research Award" several times in recognition of her performances and presentations. Her broad perspective of the function of music and love for sharing it makes her an attentive and enthusiastic teacher who has worked with students in West Virginia, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama.
In addition to performing and teaching, Dr. Freeland is active in other musical pursuits. She actively adjudicates piano competitions and auditions, and enjoys giving masterclasses and presentations, such as “Technique: A Sound Approach,” given to such groups as the Atlanta Music Teachers Association. Dr. Freeland organizes the annual Foothills Piano Festival on the campus of JSU, coordinates the JSU Music Department's Music Preparatory Program, and is President of the Alabama Music Teachers Association. She is a member of Phi Kappa Lambda, Sigma Alpha Iota, and the Music Teachers National Association.
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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 was Director of Concerts
for the Dayton Art Institute. He is also the Founder/Director of the Soirées
Musicales Piano Series, which recently completed 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 0f 2001 in two
performances of the Mozart Concerto K. 467 and Chopin's Andante Spianato
and Grande Polonaise Brilliante.
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Robin Harrison
was born in London, where
he studied with Frederick Bailey of High Wycombe before winning a
scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Harold Craxton. After
being presented with the Silver Medal and Albanesi Prize, he was awarded an Italian Government
Scholarship for further studies in Rome, where he was offered a place in Carlo Zecchi's class at
the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Later, he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and ultimately, he
returned to London to work under the guidance of Ilona Kabos. He has been heard in frequent
broadcasts for the BBC and other European and South American
radio networks, and his many concerts include several appearances at the Cheltenham Festival
of British Contemporary Music and the Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in
London. On the occasion of his long-awaited debut at Carnegie Recital Hall the New
York Times observed, "Robin Harrison is an impressive pianist." The former
Head of Piano in the Department of Music at the University of Saskatchewan, Mr. Harrison
has made guest appearances with leading Canadian orchestras and is well known to Canadian
audiences for his many recital broadcasts on the CBC. He has performed at the Centre D'Arts Orford in
Quebec and has been a guest artist for the American Liszt Society Festivals in Canada and the United
States.
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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 has served as Secretary for the American Matthay Association 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 presently on the faculty of Carleton College and
he resides both in New York City and Minneapolis. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, is frequently
heard on radio and television, and has collaborated with opera stars of the Metropolitan, New York City, and Vienna Operas. He has
served on the faculties of Westminster Choir College, Augsburg College, and Virginia Intermont College, where he was also founder and Director
of Celebrity Concerts. He has frequently presented lectures and recitals for the American Matthay Association and the Mannheimer Piano Festival,
for which he was artistic director. He is often invited to adjudicate for national scholarship competitions and auditions, including the MTNA, the
San Antonio International Keyboard Competition, and St. Paul's Schubert Club. He has also served two terms as panelist for the Virginia Commission for
the Arts.
He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University where he studied with György Sebök. His study of the piano began at
age four with his aunt, and continued with Shirley Shaffer of the Matthay School. He spent summers studying with the late
Frank Mannheimer, and studied privately with Leon Fleisher from 1969 to 1973.
In addition to his non-stop musical life, his hobbies include running, gourmet cooking, camping and hiking, the theater, and of course, travel.
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Milton Kidd
is past Treasurer of the American Matthay Association. He holds the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor Emeritus from The American University in Washington, D.C., where he was a member of the piano faculty for thirty-one years. Ten of those years were in combination with his post as Director of A.U.'s Preparatory Music Division. In 1981 he was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the University-wide, Adjunct Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. His principal piano studies were with Charles Crowder and the late Evelyn Swarthout (a student of Tobias Matthay). He has been a frequent performer in the Washington area as well as the presenter of numerous lectures on piano technique and pedagogy in this country and Canada, and has lectured at AMA festivals in Toronto, Pittsburgh, San Jose and Springfield. With Evelyn Swarthout, he performed the Canadian premiere of the Sonata for Two Pianos by Esther Williamson Ballou. Mr. Kidd's students have been prize winners in many D.C. area and national competitions, including the International Stravinsky Awards, Washington's National Symphony Young Soloists' Competition and the Clara Wells Auditions. Of late he maintains a private studio in Maine and teaches at the University of Maine Farmington. A forty-four-year member and supporter of the American Matthay Association, he has been a member of the Board and was for seventeen years Chairman of the Clara Wells Piano Scholarship Auditions.
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Anne Koscielny
is a native of Florida and she began
her piano studies at the age of six. Since then, she has performed in solo recitals, with
orchestras, and in chamber music ensembles throughout the United States, in Central and South
America, Europe, and Asia. Winner of many awards and prizes, including first prize in the
Kosciuszko Chopin Competition in New York City, and first prize in the
National Guild of Piano Teachers Recording Competition, she received the Bachelor of Music
(with Distinction) from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Cécile Staub Genhart.
She then received a full scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music, where she earned her
Master of Music studying with Robert Goldsand. She has also studied with Frank Mannheimer and she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study in Vienna. Her London debut in 1972 was received with great critical success. The Daily Telegraph described her performance as filled with "Fire and feeling. Outstanding interpretations. Power and control. This was a remarkable debut." Koscielny has also performed the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas in eight recitals at the University of Hartford, University of Maryland, and Centenary College (Shreveport, Louisiana). At Yale University, she has performed the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Syoko Aki. Well-known in the greater Washington area, Koscielny has performed for the Washington Performing Arts Society (Kennedy Center), the National Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Collection. As convention artist for several state Music Teachers Associations, she has performed and lectured in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Connecticut. Other concerts, master classes, lectures, and workshops have taken her to more than sixty college and university campuses. She has appeared as festival artist for the Maryland International Piano Festival, the American Matthay Association, and the Frank Mannheimer Festival.
In chamber concerts, Koscielny has performed with the New Hungarian, American, Emerson, New
World, and Guarneri String Quartets. For twelve years, she was Artist-in-Residence at Taos
School of Music (New Mexico), a renowned summer school for strings and piano. Having served
often on the Fulbright Screening Committee, she has also adjudicated the Gina Bachauer
Competition, the Maryland International Piano Competition, the Young Keyboard Artists'
Association and numerous other competitions throughout the United States, Canada and Brazil.
Over the years, many of her students have won major competitions and gone on to establish
careers in teaching and performing. Formerly a professor of piano at the Hartt School of
Music (University of Hartford) Anne Koscielny joined the faculty of the University of
Maryland at College Park in the fall of 1988. Since then, she has been active as a recitalist,
orchestral soloist, chamber musician (pianist of the Altair Trio) and lecturer. Most recently,
she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts grant to record the thirty-two Sonatas of
Beethoven. She resides in Washington with her husband, pianist and teacher Raymond Hanson.
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George Loring
is
the current Past-President of the American Matthay Association for Piano. He
is Artist-in-Residence at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, and holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance with honors from
the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied under Jacob Maxin and Victor Rosenbaum. He also holds a B.A. cum laude (in music)
from Harvard College. His other teachers include Albion Metcalf, Leonard Shure, Hungarian artist and teacher Dusi Mura, and Denise Lassimonne, the
adopted daughter of Tobias Matthay.
He performs frequently throughout New England as a soloist, collaborative artist and chamber musician, and has performed in Austria, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, England, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Hawaii, and on New Hampshire public radio and
television.
Mr. Loring has performed concerti by Beethoven, Mozart, and Saint-Saens with the Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra, the New Hampshire Philharmonic and the
Jupiter Symphony of New York City. He has presented complete cycles of the Mozart and Brahms sonatas with violinist Roger Hall. He also appeared as pianist
for the Monadnock Chorus at Carnegie Hall.
A member of the Music Teachers National Association since 1982, Mr. Loring has twice been president of the New Hampshire Music Teachers Association. He is
currently the Vice-president for Program of that organization. He is also a member and former board member of the New England Piano Teachers Association. He
is frequently sought after as an adjudicator for state and regional competitions and festivals in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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