Piano
Faculty: Bruce Brubaker, Chair | Wha Kyung Byun | Gabriel Chodos, | Stephen Drury | Randall Hodgkinson | Veronica Jochum | Alexander Korsantia | Victor Rosenbaum | Vivian Hornik Weilerstein | Patricia Zander
Bruce Brubaker, Piano Literature
A. Ramón Rivera, Piano Pedagogy
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As an artist, NEC’s piano faculty will educate you as a performer of works past, present, and future.
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| Fou T'song in a recent NEC piano masterclass. |
As a piano student at the school, you will work with our internationally renowned faculty, and receive lessons from a senior teacher – not from an assistant or surrogate. The traditional private lesson is vital in our curriculum; you will also participate in piano studio classes, masterclasses with NEC faculty and visiting artists (such as Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, András Schiff), solo and concerto competitions, and festivals. You will learn by participating in chamber music ensembles and by interacting with colleagues both within and outside the major. Our students and graduates have won top prizes in the world’s most prestigious competitions (Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky, Leeds, Rubinstein, Cliburn, Liszt, Dublin, Busoni, Kapell), and are trained to meet the highest international standards of piano playing and music making.
Outside of the studio, you will have many opportunities to listen, learn, and perform. Featuring NEC piano faculty and special guests, weekly piano performance seminars explore listening, looking, learning, and living as a practicing professional pianist. Annually, NEC piano students are presented in a festival.
In 2006, two recitals in Jordan Hall featured NEC piano students performing music by Beethoven and Schoenberg in conjunction with James Levine's Beethoven/Schoenberg programs with the Boston Symphony. In 2008, two Jordan Hall recitals will include about thirty NEC piano majors performing Messiaen's complete Catalogue of the Birds and Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus.
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| Richard Goode in a recent NEC piano masterclass. | Frederic Rzewski in a recent SICPP masterclass. |
Upcoming piano events at NEC:
September 7: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Bruce Brubaker
September 14: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: A. Ramon Rivera
September 16: Anne Tyson, piano
September 18: Mozart Violin and Piano Sonatas
September 19: Mozart Violin and Piano Sonatas
September 20: Mozart Violin and Piano Sonatas
September 21: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Veronica Jochum
September 26: Russell Sherman, piano
September 28: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Fou Ts'ong
October 1: First Monday at Jordan Hall
October 5: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Andrew Russo and Evan Ziporyn
October 9: Kim Kashkashian and Robert Levin, viola and piano
October 26: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Bruce Brubaker
November 2: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Gabriel Chodos
November 5: First Monday at Jordan Hall
November 7: Costellar Pulsations
November 9: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Virginia Eskin
November 16: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Sara Grunstein
November 26: Gabriel Chodos, piano
December 3: First Monday at Jordan Hall
December 7: NEC Piano Performance Seminar: Timothy Ehlen
January 27: Salute to Giacomo Puccini on his 150th Birthday
January 31: Piano Department Festival: Messiaen
February 6: NEC Symphony Orchestra
February 7: Piano Department Festival: Messiaen
February 14: NEC Wind Ensemble
March 2: Heng Jin Park, piano
March 3: First Monday at Jordan Hall
April 3: Moet Trio
April 7: First Monday at Jordan Hall
May 1: Piano Honors Concert: Beethoven
May 5: First Monday at Jordan Hall