The 2014 Piano Institute, in association with the Piano Division of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University, will present a series of master classes and recitals from July 13-19 on the university’s campus and culminate with the July 22 gala concert at Severance Hall’s Reinberger Chamber Hall in Cleveland. The nine-year-old program is a highly intensive festival for talented piano students in grades 7-12. The July 22 gala concert will feature 14 highly gifted pre-collegiate pianists from the United States, China, Russia and Mongolia. The master classes, recitals and gala concert are free and open to the public.
Instructors of the Piano Institute include Donna Lee, D.M.A., associate professor and coordinator of the Piano Division at Kent State, and Jerry Wong, D.M.A., associate professor of piano at Kent State. Guest artists for this year’s Piano Institute are Pierre van der Westhuizen, president and CEO of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, and Joela Jones, principal keyboardist with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Piano Institute participants receive four hours of one-on-one lessons daily; attend master classes; and study sight-reading, technique, practicing and audition/competition preparation. They also will have the unique opportunity to share in the Kent/Blossom Music program, a premiere summer institution for summer collegiate level study of solo, chamber and orchestral literature.
For more information, please call 330-672-1061 or visit www.kent.edu/pianoinstitute.
Piano Institute Activities
SUNDAY, JULY 13, 4 p.m.
Piano Institute Faculty Recital featuring Donna Lee, Kent State associate professor and coordinator of the Piano Division in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, and Jerry Wong, Kent State associate professor and co-director of the Piano Institute
Ludwig Recital Hall in the Center for the Performing Arts, Kent State University
TUESDAY, JULY 15, 3:45 p.m.
Master class with Donna Lee, Kent State associate professor and coordinator of the Piano Division in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, and co-director of the Piano Institute
University Auditorium in Cartwright Hall, Kent State University
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 3:45 p.m.
Master class with Jerry Wong, Kent State associate professor and co-director of the Piano Institute
University Auditorium in Cartwright Hall, Kent State University
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 3:45 p.m.
Master class with Pierre van der Westhuizen, president and CEO of the Cleveland International Piano Competition
University Auditorium in Cartwright Hall, Kent State University
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 10 a.m.
Master class with Joela Jones, principal keyboardist with the Cleveland Orchestra
Ludwig Recital Hall in the Center for the Performing Arts, Kent State University
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 7 p.m.
Gala concert featuring all Piano Institute participants
Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Hall, Cleveland
Ludwig Recital Hall is located in the Center for the Performing Arts at 1325 Theatre Drive in Kent.University Auditorium in Cartwright Hall is located on Terrace Drive, off of Main Street, in Kent. Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Hall is located at 11001 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland.
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Photo Caption:
Participants in last year’s Piano Institute at Kent State University and co-directors Jerry Wong (far left) and Donna Lee (far right), both associate professors in Kent State’s School of Music, assemble around a piano for a group photo in University Auditorium in Cartwright Hall.
Media Contacts:
Monica Brately, mbratel1@kent.edu, 330-672-1061
Emily Vincent, evincen2@kent.edu, 330-672-8595