2008 Clinicians and Recitalists

Guest Clinician 

Jessica Johnson serves on the piano faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Director of Graduate Studies in Piano Pedagogy. In 2006 she was the recipient of UW’s prestigious Emil Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award. In addition to her love for the standard keyboard repertoire, Johnson frequently commissions and programs contemporary solo and chamber works. She regularly performs with Sole Nero, a piano and percussion duo with Anthony Di Sanza, percussion. An active clinician, she has given workshops and presentations at the European Piano Teachers Association International Conference, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, five featured presentations at MTNA national conferences, as well as held residencies at major universities and colleges throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe and China. Johnson has articles published in American Music Teacher, Keyboard Companion, Piano Pedagogy Forum, EPTA’s Piano Journal and Piano Adventures Teacher Newsletter. In 2007, she was the recipient of American Music Teacher’s Article of the Year Award for “The Art of Listening with Depth, Understanding, Flow and Imagery.” She received the doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Michigan.

Composer of the Year

Catherine Rollin is an active pianist, composer, clinician and teacher of prize-winning students. Catherine’s pedagogical compositions are recognized worldwide for their combination of musicality and “teachability.” In demand as a clinician and master class presenter, Catherine has given over 150 workshops, including a 2006 seven-city tour of Japan that featured the technical insights of her Pathways to Artistry series, as well as a wide variety of her solo and duet collections. In the summer of 2007, Catherine was featured at the Music Teachers Association of California as well as the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Chicago. Among the honors of Catherine’s students are a national finalist in the 2004 MTNA junior high piano performance competition, International Institute for Young Keyboard Artists semi-finalist and Oberlin Piano Competition second round semi-finalist. In 2007 Catherine’s student won a national composing award from the National Federation of Music Clubs and was the third of her students to have this national honor. Many of her students have gone on to professional careers in music and have graduated from prestigious conservatories including Juilliard, New York State University at Stony Brook, Indiana University and the Moscow Conservatory.

Presenters

E. Douglas Bomberger is professor of music and chair of fine and performing arts at Elizabethtown College. He holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of Maryland-College Park, an M.M. in piano performance from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in music and French from Goshen College. Before joining the Elizabethtown faculty, he taught at the University of Hawaii, Ithaca College and Goshen College. Dr. Bomberger’s articles have appeared in American Music Teacher, The Piano Quarterly, Clavier, Keyboard Companion, The Journal of the American Liszt Society and other journals. He contributed chapters to Piano Roles (Yale, 1999) and From Convent to Concert Hall: A Guide to Women Composers (Greenwood, 2003). He is the author of Brainard’s Biographies of American Musicians (Greenwood, 1999), “A Tidal Wave of Encouragement:" American composers’ concerts in the Gilded Age (Praeger, 2002) and "An Index to Music" Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957 (Scarecrow, 2004).

 

Matthew Hill, Goshen College associate professor of music, teaches piano, music history and humanities. In October 2006 Matthew presented a series of master classes and a recital performance at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, China, as well as guest lectures at the Southwest University of Science and Technology in Mianyang. He contributed a chapter to Silence, Music, Silent Music (Ashgate, 2007), has written for Clavier, and was an invited presenter at “Couleurs dans le vent: Celebrating the Music of Olivier Messiaen,” an international conference held at the University of Kansas in 2002. Dr. Hill is currently co-chair of the music department and co-coordinator of the GC Piano Workshop and Academy. Matthew has a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under pianist Howard Karp and has also studied with the renowned Beethoven interpreter Claude Frank.

 

Beverly Lapp, associate professor of music at Goshen College, teaches applied piano and piano pedagogy and humanities. She serves on the Committee on Internships and Practica for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP), and moderated the pre-conference seminar on collegiate pedagogy teaching at the NCKP in Chicago in August 2003. She holds degrees from Goshen College and Westminster Choir College of Rider University and is currently working towards her doctoral degree from Teachers College, Columbia University.

 Guest Performers

Sole Nero , a piano and percussion duo featuring Jessica Johnson and Anthony Di Sanza, is committed to exploring and programming new and existing works for piano and percussion duo. In an effort to contribute to the repertoire of this diverse medium, Sole Nero is engaged in an extensive commissioning project resulting, thus far, in six new works composed expressly for the duo. Sole Nero has performed extensively in the United States and recently appeared in Shenyang and Beijing, China. In 2004, the duo released its first compact disc recording Music per Due on the Equilibrium label.

 

Mark Swartzentruber has released albums with Sony Classical and Solo Records to critical acclaim in journals such as Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, The Guardian and International Record Review. His London appearances include solo recitals at the South Bank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and St John’s, Smith Square. He has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Classic FM and is consultant producer for BBC Radio 3’s Sunday mid-morning programme. He is music director of the Holloway Arts Festival and has worked with directors such as Franco Zeffirelli and Richard Eyre performing soundtracks for London West End shows. A pupil of the late John Ogdon, Michel Block and Maria Curcio, Artur Schnabel’s protégé, he is a committed teacher and is regularly invited to give master classes and to adjudicate.

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