Genre Classical Years active 1985-Present | Dates June 17 -July 7, 2012 Founded by Karen Taylor | |
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Location(s) Bloomington, Indiana, USA | ||
Indiana University Piano Academy is a three-week summer program in Bloomington, IN that is sponsored by the Jacobs School of Music of the Indiana University.
Contents
The Academy
The students receive individual leasons with the principal faculty members, take part in master classes and participate in group classes, attend conferences, lectures and presentations and receive theory lessons. In this program, students may or may not use dorms. This is a worldwide program and people all over the world come.
Core Faculty Members
The main faculty members are Karen Taylor, David Cartledge, Christopher Harding, Ruth Morrow, Alice Rybak, Daniel Schene and Gregory Sioles.
Adjunct Faculty and Masterclasses
The adjunct faculty for the 2010 Piano Academy includes Matthew Gianforte, Orla McDonagh, and Kazuha Nakahara. Guest master teachers have played an equally crucial role in the Academy’s success. Each year, they feature some of the world’s most distinguished artist teachers in master classes, lecture-recitals and performances. In honor of their 2010 anniversary, the Academy has put together a stellar roster of master teachers including loyal friends of the Academy: Read Gainsford, Menahem Pressler and Karen Shaw, returning guests Joseph Kalichstein and Nelita True, Andre Watts. Among the noted artist teachers who have shared their insights and expertise with the Academy over the years are Edward Auer, Edmund Battersby, Jonathan Biss, Marvin Blickenstaff, Hans Boepple, Evelyne Brancart, Enrica Cavallo-Gulli, Constance Knox Carroll, Richard Cass, Frederic Chiu, Mia Chung, Arnaldo Cohen, Robert Durso, Sophia Gilmson, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Eric Larsen, Marion Hall, Leonard Hokanson, Jeffrey Jacob, Rosita Kerr-Mang, Barbara Lister-Sink, Anthony de Mare, Virginia Marks, Natalie Matovinovic, Yong Hi Moon, Louis Nagel, Emile Naoumoff, Walter Robert, Ann Schein, Logan Skelton, James Tocco, Irina Voro, Ralph Votapek, Weekley and Arganbright, John Weems and Robert Weirich.