Golandsky Summer Symposium
The 2007 Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium Biographies


Edna Golandsky
Artistic Director

EDNA GOLANDSKY is the person with whom Dorothy Taubman worked most closely.

In 1976 Ms. Golandsky conceived the idea of establishing an Institute where people could come together during the summer and pursue an intensive investigation of the Taubman Approach. She encouraged Mrs. Taubman to establish the Taubman Institute, which they ran together as co-founders. Mrs. Taubman was Executive Director and Ms. Golandsky served as Artistic Director.

Almost from the beginning, Mrs. Taubman entrusted Ms. Golandsky with the planning and programming of the annual summer session. She gave daily lectures on the Taubman Approach and later conducted master classes as well. As the face of the Taubman Approach, Ms. Golandsky discusses each of its elements in a ten-volume video series.

Mrs. Taubman has written, "I consider her the leading authority on the Taubman approach to instrumental playing."

Edward Bilous

Edward Bilous is one of the most eclectic composers of his generation. His recent work includes "Lucid Dreams" written for the American Composers Orchestra "Night of the Dark Mook" and “The Place Where Light Was Born" written Pilobolus Dance Theater, "Benedictus for Triple Chorus and Percussion ", commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, "Two Meditations from Portraits of Grief - A Tribute to the Victims of the September 11th Tragedy" commissioned by New York Times Television, "Chaccone for Nine Souls" from the Academy Award nominated film "Scottsboro" and "Frame of Reference" written for frame drum master Glen Velez.

A nationally recognized leader in the field of arts education Bilous has conducted master classes and seminars at the Lincoln Center Institute, The Tanglewood Institute, The Philadelphia Orchestra, College-Columbia University , The Leonard Bernstein Center for Arts and Education and Chamber Music America.

Bilous has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1986. He is the Chairman of the Literature and Materials of Music Department, Founding Director of the Juilliard Music Technology Center and the Juilliard Electric Ensemble, Co-Founder and Director of Beyond The Machine, A Festival of Electronic and Interactive Music.

Bilous received a B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Elias Tannenbaum and Charles Wuorinen and a M.M. and DMA from Juilliard, where his primary teachers were Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti. He also studied composition with Krzystof Penderecki.

John Bloomfield


John Bloomfield is an award winning solo and chamber pianist. He earned a Master’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music and later studied with Dorothy Taubman and Edna Golandsky.  He has taught at Adelphi University and in the pre college division of the Manhattan School of Music.  In demand as a clinician around the country, he has lectured at many universities and workshops. He performed regularly at Symposia in Portland, OR and For the Love of Music in Greenville, SC.  He has been a featured presenter at the Breckenridge Music Institute, state MTA conventions, and the 2005 MTNA convention in Seattle.  He maintains a studio in New York City and travels regularly to Portland, San Francisco and Atlanta to consult and give lessons.  He served as faculty chairman for the Taubman Institute of Piano from 1991 to 2002.  He is a co-founder and senior director of the Golandsky Institute.
 

Mary Moran


Mary Moran has been on the adjunct faculties of Russell Sage College and Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York teaching applied piano, music appreciation, and arranging.  She has studied the Taubman Approach to Piano Performance since 1977, primarily with Edna Golandsky.  She was a faculty member of the Taubman Institute of Piano from 1981 through 2002, and has been recognized for her application of this approach to children’s pedagogy.  She has been invited to lecture on technical training for students and give master classes by many music teachers’ organizations in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, at Portland State University, and at Williams College.  She performs frequently as a soloist, a duo-pianist, and a collaborative pianist. A founding director of the Golandsky Institute, Ms. Moran has taught in Lecce, Italy at the Symposium on the Taubman Approach in 2003 and in Grenoble, France in March of 2004.  She frequently teaches and gives master classes in the Montreal area.  In addition to maintaining a private studio at her home in the Capital District of New York State, she regularly speaks at teacher training events sponsored by The Golandsky Institute, and mentors teachers in The Golandsky Institute’s Professional Training Program in Massachusetts, and in Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec.
 


Kendall Feeney


Kendall Feeney has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Asia. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Northwest concert series, ZEPHYR, and is a member of the piano faculty and director the Contemporary Music Ensemble at Eastern Washington University. She has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” and is the co-creator of the Public Radio Show, “A Fine Frenzy.” Ms. Feeney received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Southern California. She has studied the Taubman approach with Dorothy Taubman and Edna Golandsky since 1985. 
 

Father Sean Duggan


Father Sean Duggan, O.S.B.  attended Loyola University in New Orleans and received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Arts degree in Theology from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and was ordained to the priesthood.

In September 1983, Father Duggan won first prize in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition for pianists in Washington D.C., which entitled him, among other honors, to various concerts around the country and a two-month tour of Germany. In the “Bach Year”, 1985, he gave complete performances of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Birmingham to critical acclaim. In 1991 he participated again in the Bach Competition in Washington D.C.; this time he was one of three first-place winners, and this entitled him to another round of concert engagements and a second tour of Germany.

Throughout the year 2000, the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, Father Duggan performed the complete cycle of Bach’s keyboard works eight times in a series of fifteen recitals entitled Bach On the Threshold of Hope.

Father Duggan is presently on the piano faculty at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also on the faculty of the Golandsky Institute and he continues to study with Edna Golandsky.
 

Scott Burnham


Scott Burnham, Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Princeton University, is the author of Beethoven Hero (Princeton, 1995), translator of A. B. Marx, Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven (Cambridge, 1997), and co-editor of Beethoven and His World (Princeton, 2000). More recent writings include "Schubert and the Sound of Memory" (Musical Quarterly, 2001), "On the Beautiful in Mozart" (Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity, ed. K. Berger and A. Newcomb, 2005), and "Haydn and Humor," The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, ed. C. Clark, 2005).
 

 
Scott Burnham

Paul Roberts


Paul Roberts British pianist and author Paul Roberts has been a regular guest artist and lecturer in the United States since 1999. Roberts is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, visiting professor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and director of Music at Castelfranc piano program in southern France.

In addition to his extensive playing and lecturing schedule that takes him across the United States, Great Britain and Western Europe, Amadeus Press of NY has just released a Paul Roberts DVD entitled “Mists, Fairies and Fireworks: Debussy's Preludes for Piano,” featuring Roberts as part of their new "Steinway Presents" DVD series. London's Phaidon Press will soon be releasing his Debussy biography. He is also author of the celebrated book on Debussy, Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy (Amadeus Press), a combined study of music, poetry and painting.

As a leading authority on Debussy, Paul Roberts is currently recording the complete piano music. The first CD in the series received four-star recommendation from Classic CD magazine - who proclaimed it as "probably the most desirable modern recording of the Preludes currently available in the UK" - while Erato Disques said his performances were "comparable to the very greatest." The second disc - Images I and Preludes II - earns equal praise.

Robert Durso


Robert DursoRobert Durso attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music, obtained his Bachelor of Music Degree from Indiana University and received his Master of Music Degree from Temple University. Mr. Durso has performed extensively, including appearances at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Toronto Music Festival, Temple University, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and in a tour of South Carolina sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. In September of 2000, Mr. Durso was invited to Caracas, Venezuela by the US Embassy to present the work of Dorothy Taubman for the first time in South America. He has conducted master classes and concerts at Mount Holyoke College, Portland State University, Berkeley Chapter of the San Francisco MTNA, Spokane Music Teachers Association, NEPTA in Boston, Tel Aviv, Israel and Rome. His engagements abroad have included concerts at La Chiesa della Palma in Cagliari, Sardinia where he premiered a work by Sardinian composer Roberto Mirigliano; the Palazzo Cenci in Rome; the Ehrbarsaal in Vienna; L'Atelier in Brussels, as well as concerts in Zurich, Taiwan and Oxford, England. Mr. Durso has performed with the Yaquina Symphony Orchestra under the baton of David Ogden Stiers in a four-concert tour of the Oregon coast. Mr. Durso has worked with Edna Golandsky and Dorothy Taubman since 1983 and was a faculty member of the former Taubman Institute. Recently, Mr. Durso performed and gave master classes at Castelfranc in France.

Mr. Durso specializes in audition and competition preparation. He has produced several first place winners in national and international competitions, including, The Bartok/Kabelevsky International, Artist International NYC, Ambler Symphony Young Artist Competition, The Cal Rudman Competition and The Marymount Concerto Competition. His students have been accepted and have attended several of the leading conservatories, including the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University, New England Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory.