Master classes.(piano music)

Collegiate Piano

Monday, March 26 * 10:30 A.M.-12:00 NOON

Jane Coop, distinguished university scholar, is a professor of piano and chamber music at the University of British Columbia. She holds an artist diploma and B.M. degree from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Anton Kuerti, and an M.M. degree from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Leon Fleischer. Coop has toured extensively throughout North America, Britain, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Her recitals have been performed in such cities as NewYork, London, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Prague, Beijing and Tokyo. As a concerto soloist, Coop has worked with such conductors as John Eliot Gardiner, Andrew Davis and Rudolf Barshai. With Mario Bernardi, Coop recorded three concertos with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Royal Philharmonic, Seattle and Oregon Symphonies, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and every major orchestra in Canada. Coop is an active recording artist with a current discography of 13 titles on both Skylark Records and CBC Records. She has collaborated with many of Canada's leading instrumentalists and is frequently invited to perform at chamber festivals throughout North America. Coop is a regular guest artist and teacher at the prestigious Kneisel Hall Festival in Blue Hill, Maine.

Intermediate Piano

Sunday, March 25 * 10:30 A.M.--12:00 NOON

Marvin Blickenstaff, NCTM, is known among piano teachers throughout the country for his teaching, lecturing, performing and publishing. He has presented workshops for piano teachers throughout the United States, and appears frequently as soloist and lecturer. For 16 summers he was on the faculty of International Workshops, where he has performed and lectured in Canada, Austria, Scotland, Norway, France and Switzerland. He currently serves as board president of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy and on the executive planning committee of the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. Blickenstaff has been on the editorial committee of American Music Teacher magazine ...