Adult Piano Camp

August 4 and 5, 2008
St. Vladimir's Cultural Centre
404 Meredith Road (Memorial Drive and Edmonton Trail)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily

For more information on CASSA programs
Please call Linda Kundert-Stoll at 403-271-0418, fax at 403-278-3236,
call Janice Dahlberg at 403-287-1856,
or email us here.

Lillian Livingston is Adjunct Professor of Piano at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. She received her training at Indiana University and Roosevelt University in Chicago. She teaches piano and piano pedagogy courses and directs the Professional Development Certificate program and, with Ingrid Clarfield, co-directs the Summer Piano Camp for Piano Teachers and a piano camp for middle school students. An active adjudicator and clinician, Ms. Livingston has presented workshops, lecture-recitals and master classes throughout the United States, Canada and Germany. She is widely respected as one of the foremost authorities on teaching the adult student, and has presented seminars on this topic at the Music Teachers National Association’s national convention and the World Piano Pedagogy Conference. She has contributed articles on piano pedagogy to the American Music Teacher and Keyboard Companion. In addition to her work as an adjudicator and clinician, Ms. Livingston is also active as part of a duo-piano team with Ingrid Clarfield, who has been a clinician at the Piano Camp for many seasons.

Lillian Livingston from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey
will be the featured clinician. Experience this adult piano student specialist!

The camp will take place over two full days from 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m, daily, on holiday Monday, August 4, and Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Perform in the recital at 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening. Enjoy the reception to follow at the camp venue, St. Vladimir's Cultural Centre, near downtown Calgary.

Adults at all levels are invited to join us. You will perform a solo and ensemble piece in the recital. You will have ensemble music assigned ahead of time. (Hint: register early to receive your ensemble music early.) A string work may be assigned to upper level pianists.

During master classes with Ms. Livingston and top level teachers, Joseph Frideman, Edwin Gnandt and Lana Henchell, participants will work on a personally chosen solo repertoire piece and a pre-assigned ensemble work. Advanced pianists may be assigned an ensemble with a string musician. At the end of the two days, participants will have the opportunity to share with others their solo and duet/duo pieces in an informal musicale. Over two days, Ms. Livingston will present lectures pertaining to adults and your study of music.

NOTE: Private instruction is offered at an extra cost on a first come, first served basis, pending teacher availability. Sign-up sheets will be available the first day of camp.

Piano Teacher: Edwin Gnandt enjoys a successful career with over five hundred appearances as soloist, accompanist, adjudicator and workshop

clinician. He has been praised by the San Francisco Examiner for his “consistently alluring sound,” by the Oakland Tribune for his “ear for phrasing,” and by the Los Angeles Times for his “distinct refinement.” Mr Gnandt’s performances have taken him throughout Canada and the United States as well as to Russia and Scotland. Recent appearances include St Petersburg, Russia; Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver.

Mr. Gnandt completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Calgary and his Master of Music at the University of Washington under Randolph Hokanson. He also studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland under a Canada Council grant and did postgraduate studies with Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He collaborates and records with many of Canada’s finest musicians. Mr. Gnandt currently serves as a full-time faculty member at Ambrose University College, Calgary.

Reviews

Edwin Gnandt is a pianist of sensitivity; he has about him that elusive but distinct refinement that a wine connoisseur or a horseman might refer to as breed. One gets the impression that at his worst, this pianist couldn’t offend one’s sensibilities, that a lapse of taste wouldn’t figure in his musical makeup.

Benjamin Epstein, Los Angeles Times

Gnandt seems to have an endless variety of tonal weight at his command. He possesses a French style of coloration - like a painting that features 15 shades of light blue and 20 shades of dark blue.

Heuwell Tircuit, San Francisco Chronicle

He possesses a rare gift that few people have – he phrases from the heart.

Aldo Ciccolini, Concert Pianist

He polished this outgoing concerto nicely with a fine finger technique and an ear for phrasing.

Charles Shere, Oakland Tribune

Gnandt made a most consistently alluring sound – his most impressive showing came with a sweeping Romantic reading of the Chopin Ballade in F minor.

Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner

The Liszt was performed with flowing strength and magnificent phrasing, passing from strikingly clear attacks to romantic liquid legato phrases.

Don Forsyth, Penticton Herald

Piano Teacher: Joseph Fridman comes to us from Edmonton. He is an incredible musician who absolutely loves, lives and breathes music.He has earned two master’s degrees, one as a pianist and one as an opera director. Both degrees are from the world-renowned St. Petersburg State Conservatory (Russia ). He is a concert pianist, teacher, vocal coach and accompanist. He taught at the Schools for Musically Gifted Children of St. Petersburg and Kiev and the Pskov Music College and performed with the St. Petersburg and Pskov Philharmonics. Mr. Fridman

Mr. Fridman served on the faculty of the Alberta College Conservatory of Music from 1991 till 2002 and taught in the Conservatory’s International Music Academy and the University of Alberta. Mr. Fridman is a director and teacher of the Alberta Music Academy. He lectures and gives masterclasses and workshops in Canada, Ukraine Russia and the USA. He has taught in various summer schools: “Strings and Keys” (Bergen), Alberta College summer school (Edmonton) and now as a clinician with CASSA.

Mr. Fridman has adjudicated a number of festivals and competitions, including the prestigious Canadian Music Competition (2004). His piano students have received first class honors and medals in RCM Exams, first and second prizes in the Kiwanis Festival, Northern Alberta Concerto Competition and Fall Festival. Mr. Fridman performs in solo and chamber recitals and has been broadcast frequently on CBC Radio.

Piano Teacher: Lana Henchell will be teaching at the adult piano camp, enrollment permitting. Lana received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Calgary, where she studied with

Marilyn Engle under major scholarships. She has played in masterclasses for Janina Fialkowska, Sergei Babayan, Georgy Sebok, Nikolai Demidenko, John Perry, Marc Durand, Dang Thai Son, Jean-Paul Sevilla, and Stéphane Lemelin; and during the 2003 Esther Honens Competition, with Ursula Oppens.

Winner of the 1994 Calgary Kiwanis Music Festival Rose Bowl and a first-round competitor in the 2000 Esther Honens Competition, she has also received second prizes in the Shean Piano Competition (Edmonton, 1998), the International Stepping Stone of the CMC (Montréal, 1997), the Austrian-Canadian Society Mozart Competition (Calgary, 1996), the National Music Festival (Sackville, NB, 1996) and the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition (Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1993), and took third prizes in the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Piano Competition (1997) and the CIBC National Music Festival (Montréal, 1994).

Miss Henchell has played numerous recitals in the Calgary area as soloist and as accompanist, and has appeared with Calgary orchestras, performing concerti by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Grieg. She participated in the 2003 “Barbara Krakauer” Academy in Vaison-la-Romaine, France, through a major grant from the Alberta Foundation of the Arts. In January 2004, she performed in concerts for the University of Calgary’s New Music Festival, “Happening”.

As a result of winning First Prize at the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Piano Competition in May 2004, Miss Henchell travelled across Canada to perform a sixteen-concert tour. This included a performance of the Mozart C Major Piano Concerto, K.503, with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra. In 2005, Miss Henchell performed a solo recital at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa for the 2005 Alberta Scene Festival, which was broadcast on CBC Radio Two.

Miss Henchell has taught private piano and theory lessons, adjudicated festivals and accompanied both professional and student musicians in the Calgary area. Currently, she is working towards her D.M.A at McGill University under the tutelage of Richard Raymond.

Assistant Piano Teacher: Katrina Thompson is also CASSA's Administrative Assistant.

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