2022 Golandsky Institute Virtual Summer Symposium

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MASTER CLASSES
FESTIVAL
OVERVIEW

REGISTRATION

The Symposium is $475 for 3 days (June 24-26). Early bird is $395, to be paid by May 23, 2022.

Private Lessons will be offered on Monday, June 27, between 9AM and 12PM Eastern Time. 45-minute sessions at $150 each.

Application deadline: June 13, 2022

Question submission deadline: June 10, 2022
Instructions for submitting questions will be sent upon registration.

Video recording of the Symposium will be available to all registrants after the Symposium is finished. Please allow 1-2 weeks for the video to be available. An email notification will be sent to all registrants when they are ready. Be sure to add golandskyinstitute.org to your spam filter so you receive our emails! Videos will be available for 3 months from posting.

Access to the Festival Evening Concerts is included for Symposium participants.

Cancellation Policy: The fee is refundable upon written request by May 24. No refunds shall be granted for participants whose request is received after May 24.

SCHEDULE

June 24-26 Daily Sessions

9 am Daily Morning Sessions

  • Level 1- The Building Blocks of the Taubman Approach - for newcomers - Robert Durso, John Bloomfield, and Mary Moran
  • Level 2 - Exploration of how various elements of the Taubman Approach are integrated in specific passages - for returning participants and those already familiar with the Taubman Approach. Following discussion of the passage, there will be interactive breakout groups where participants get hands-on attention from faculty members - Deborah Cleaver, Elizabeth Swarthout, Yoriko Fieleke, Brenna Berman and Therese Milanovic
  • Level 3 - Special Daily Sessions for Certification Program Participants - Edna Golandsky

10 am Daily Technique and Performance Clinics

Small group session where participants' questions are answered by faculty members. Questions need to be submitted by June 10 so that the scores can be distributed to all participants.

11 am Lectures

  • Shedding Light on "In der Nacht"
    Robert Durso will explore the musical and technical issues of this beloved piece from Schumann's Fantaisiestucke.
  • Working With Differently Weighted Musical Textures
    Textures with passages alternating single notes with double notes or single notes with chords can be complicated to play and teach. All levels of piano repertoire from student to advanced contain these passages. Mary Moran will discuss the technical concepts of the Taubman Approach that address these situations, illustrating how the same concepts can apply in different repertoire levels.
  • The Thumb: Moving It, Playing It, and Avoiding Potential Problems
    Efficient use of the thumb is essential for playing the piano well. John Bloomfield discusses how the thumb functions when playing scales, arpeggios, octaves, chords, trills, tremolos and leaps. In addition, he will give practical advice for students, teachers and performers alike about common thumb issues and how to manage them successfully.

12:15 pm Golandsky Resource Group (Friday and Saturday)

Barbara Banacos will lead this group, connecting people who are new to the work, people who are retraining their technique and people who are recovering from an injury. This session will not be recorded. It will be a safe place for participants to express their feelings about the process of retraining.

1:15 pm and 3:15 pm Daily Master Classes with Faculty and Guest Artists

Guest Artists, Ilya Itin and Josu De Solaun, along with Golandsky Institute Senior Directors, Edna Golandsky, John Bloomfield, Robert Durso, and Mary Moran will each give a master class.

2:15 pm Transitioning from Craft to Art

Edna Golandsky discusses the technical elements that along with tone production and shaping further enables musical expression. She will also present Problem Solving in Action Sessions. Examples for these sessions must be submitted by June 10, the registration deadline.

4:15 pm Daily Pedagogy Sessions

Friday, 6/24: Curriculum of Skills for Younger Beginners in the Taubman Approach, presented by Mary Moran
Saturday, 6/25: Pedagogy Workshop with students of participants, led by Mary Moran

5:15 pm Daily Q and A sessions

Festival (Evening Concerts)

June 27 Private Lessons

Private Lessons will be offered on Monday, June 27, between 9AM and 12PM Eastern Time.

45-minute sessions at $150 each. ACT NOW! Lesson slots are FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.

LECTURES

Transitioning from Craft to Art

Edna Golandsky discusses the technical elements that along with tone production and shaping further enables musical expression.

The Thumb: Moving It, Playing It, and Avoiding Potential Problems

Efficient use of the thumb is essential for playing the piano well. John Bloomfield discusses how the thumb functions when playing scales, arpeggios, octaves, chords, trills, tremolos and leaps. In addition, he will give practical advice for students, teachers and performers alike about common thumb issues and how to manage them successfully.

Working With Differently Weighted Musical Textures

Textures with passages alternating single notes with double notes or single notes with chords can be complicated to play and teach. All levels of piano repertoire from student to advanced contain these passages. Mary Moran will discuss the technical concepts of the Taubman Approach that address these situations, illustrating how the same concepts can apply in different repertoire levels.

Shedding Light on "In der Nacht"

Robert Durso will explore the musical and technical issues of this beloved piece from Schumann's Fantaisiestucke.

MASTER CLASSES

A master class will be given by Golandsky Institute Faculty and Guest Artists.

Thomas Bagwell

Guest Artist

Thomas Bagwell’s “expressive pianistic powers” have established him as “an equal partner no less than revelatory” (The Washington Post) in song recital and chamber music on the international stage. His career has included critically acclaimed performances in New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and other major concert halls across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Japan... [Read more under the FESTIVAL tab]

 

Ilya Itin

Guest Artist

Ilya Itin has performed with many of the world’s great conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Neemi Jarvi, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Yakov Kreizberg, Vassily Sinaisky, Valery Polyansky, and Mikhail Pletnev performing as soloist with orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony, the National Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the China National Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra of India; the Mexico City Philharmonic; and the Rochester Philharmonic... [Read more under the FESTIVAL tab]

 

Edna Golandsky

Golandsky Institute Founder and Artistic Director, Leading Expert

Edna Golandsky is the leading exponent of the Taubman Approach. She has earned wide acclaim throughout the United States and abroad for her extraordinary ability to solve technical problems and for her penetrating musical insight. She received both her bachelor of music and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, following which she continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman... [Read more]

 

John Bloomfield

Golandsky Institute Co-Founder, Senior Director, Faculty Chair, Leading Expert

John Bloomfield is a Ken­tucky native and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Furman University in Greenville, S.C. An award-winning solo and chamber pianist, he has been broadcast by Public Radio in New England and has been heard on the air in New York under the auspices of Ars Viva. He earned a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and since then has been a long-term student of Dorothy Taubman and Edna Go­landsky... [Read more]

 

Robert Durso

Golandsky Institute Co-Founder, Senior Director, Leading Expert

Robert Durso attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music, obtained his bachelor of music degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and received his master of music degree from Temple University. His principal teach­ers were Enrica Cavallo-Gulli, Harvey Wedeen, Edna Golandsky, Dorothy Taubman, and Rosalyn Tureck... [Read more]

 

Mary Moran

Golandsky Institute Co-Founder, Senior Director, Leading Expert

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... [Read more]

 
FESTIVAL

Concert access is included for Symposium participants.

June 24, 2022

Thomas Bagwell

  • Bach Sonata in B minor for Violin and Keyboard, BWV 1014
       I. Adagio
       II. Allegro
       III. Andante
       IV. Allegro
    Kumi Shimizu, violin
  • Chopin Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3
  • Chopin Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2
  • Chopin Waltz in G-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1
  • Debussy Images (1894)
       I. Lent (mélancolique et doux)
  • Griffes Fountain of the Acqua Paola (from "Roman Sketches", Op. 7)
  • Ravel Noctuelles (from "Miroirs")
  • Debussy Sonata for Violin and Piano
       I. Allegro vivo
       II. Intermède: Fantasque et léger
       III. Finale: Très animé
    Kumi Shimizu, violin

June 25, 2022

Ilya Itin

  • Tchaikovsky The Seasons, Op. 37a
  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

June 26, 2022

Aristo Sham

  • Bach-Rachmaninoff: Suite from Violin Partita in E major
  • Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
  • Rachmaninoff: Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39

    Aristo Sham appears by arrangement with Young Concert Artist, Inc. www.yca.org

 

Thomas Bagwell has led productions of La Boheme, La Traviata, Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica and others at the Miami Music Festival, the Vienna Music Festival, the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and the CoOPERAtive Winter Opera. He made his conducting debut with the Royal Danish Opera with “The Merry Widow” in 2021 and will conduct performances of “Cenerentola” and “West Side Story” there in 2022. He has been an assistant conductor at the Washington National Opera and New York City Opera as well.

Thomas Bagwell’s “expressive pianistic powers” have established him as “an equal partner no less than revelatory” (The Washington Post) in song recital and chamber music on the international stage.  His career has included critically acclaimed performances in New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and other major concert halls across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Japan.  He has collaborated in recital with operatic superstars such as Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Denyce Graves, Marilyn Horne, Kristine Jepson, James Morris, Roberta Peters, Andrea Rost, and Frederica Von Stade.

Mr. Bagwell joined the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera at the age of 24 and has also served on the music staffs of the Washington National Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, the Seattle Opera, and the New York City Opera. He joined the fulltime music staff of the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen in the fall of 2018. Conductors he has worked with include Roberto Abbado, Philippe Auguin, Paolo Carignani, Sir Andrew Davis, Placido Domingo, Christoph Eschenbach, Asher Fisch, Heinz Fricke, Michael Guettler, Lothar Koenigs, Raymond Leppard, James Levine, Renato Palumbo, André Previn, Sir Charles Mackerras, Eduardo Mueller, Donald Runnicles, Nello Santi, Michael Schǿnwandt, and Alexander Vedernikov.

Thomas Bagwell’s collaborations with renowned soprano Renée Fleming include a recital at the State Department for Secretary Hillary Clinton, the preparation of her acclaimed performances and recording of Messiaen’s song cycle Poèmes pour Mi with the New York Philharmonic (conducted by Alan Gilbert), her appearances as Blanche DuBois in André Previn's opera A Streetcar Named Desire, a recording of Berg and Wellesz with the Emerson String Quartet, the world premiere of Anders Hillborg's The Strand Settings with the New York Philharmonic (also conducted by Alan Gilbert) and the creation of  Previn’s “Ten by Yeats” in collaboration with the composer.

In the field of chamber music, Mr. Bagwell has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and his “bejewelled playing” (New York Magazine) has been heard in recitals with violinists Midori, noted contemporary specialist Miranda Cuckson, and Scott St. John, with whom he made a critically acclaimed CD of works by Antonín Dvořák on the Marquis Classics label.  Thomas also made a memorable impression during his time at the Music Academy of the West as a student of Warren Jones; he became the first and only accompanying student to win the notable concerto competition as a soloist.  This opportunity led to invitations from Marilyn Horne to play at her Foundation’s Gala at Carnegie Hall in later seasons.

 Thomas Bagwell has organized and performed several concert series in New York at the Austrian Cultural Forum, including the complete songs of Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, and surveys of Schubert, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky.  He was co-artistic director for an Austrian Lieder festival in Washington, D.C. at the Austrian Embassy, and has performed numerous recitals in New York sponsored by the Lotte Lehmann Foundation.

Mr. Bagwell premiered and recorded the Five Boroughs Songbook in 2012, a collection of new art songs on the subject of New York by such composers as Tom Cipullo and Ricky Ian Gordon, and performed the Five Boroughs Songbook Volume Two  in 2017 featuring composers such as Laura Kaminsky, Missy Mazzoli, Matthew Aucoin and Kevin Puts.  He has also curated and performed in several versions of the landmark AIDS Quilt Songbook, including the recent CD Sing for Hope: an AIDS Quilt Songbook, featuring many of today's most acclaimed classical singers.  His involvement in that project has led to the creation of twenty-five new songs being added to the original collection.

As a teacher of opera, art song, and chamber music, Thomas Bagwell was on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music from 1998-2018, and has also taught at Yale University.  He has led masterclasses at the Santa Fe Opera, New Jersey Opera, University of Colorado at Boulder, Simpson College, Portland State University, and was the keynote teacher at the Oregon chapter of NATS. He is a regular faculty member of the CoOPERAtive summer opera program in Princeton, New Jersey.

Thomas Bagwell has received degrees from the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, and has studied with Warren Jones, Graham Johnson, and Edna Golandsky.  After his formal studies, Mr. Bagwell pursued additional training with Elly Ameling and Rudolf Jansen at the Academie Villecroze.

Kumi Shimizu completed Bachelor and Master’s degree at Tokyo University of the Arts under Professors Kazuki Sawa, Eszter Perenyi and Herwig Zack, where conferred the Doseikai Award at graduation.

In 2018, she moved to London to continue her studies at Royal Academy of Music supported by the Isamu Sumino Foundation, where she awarded Foundation Award, Moir Carnegie Prize, Poulett Scholarship and dipRAM at Graduation. She won Harold Craxton Prize and Winifred Small Prize in London while playing as a fellowship member in the London Symphony Orchestra.

In 2021, she won prizes in the Ysaye International Violin Competition and Viktor Tretyakov International Violin Competition. Since 2009, she has won many prizes including 1st prize at Takarazuka-Vega Music Competition as well as Governor award and Audience award, prizewinner of 3rd Munetsugu Angel International Competition, 10th Tokyo Music Competition, 2nd Salzburg Mozart International Ensemble Competition and others.

Kumi has performed numerous concertos such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens with New Japan Philharmonic, Central-Aichi Philharmonia, Siberian State Symphony Orchestra, Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra and other well-known orchestras under the baton of Messrs. Yukio Kitahara, Masahiro Izaki, Kim Hong-Jae, Masahiko Enkoji, Kazuki Sawa, Koji Toyoda, Keiko Mitsuhashi, Mikhail Golikov, Maria Benyumova, Vladimir Lande. While enjoying recitals and performimg with orchestras, she has been eager in playing chamber music with eminent artists including Gerard Poulet, Mate Szucs, Kazuki Sawa.

In 2019, she was appointed to associate concertmaster in the Royal Danish Orchestra. Since 2020 Kumi Shimizu has been a recipient of Japan Art Association Scholarship. Currently, she is studying with one of legendary violinist Maestro Salvatore Accardo at Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona while leading the orchestra as 21/22 season’s concertmaster.

 

Ilya Itin has performed with many of the world’s great conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Neemi Jarvi, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Yakov Kreizberg, Vassily Sinaisky, Valery Polyansky, and Mikhail Pletnev performing as soloist with orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony, the National Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the China National Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra of India; the Mexico City Philharmonic; and the Rochester Philharmonic.

Born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, his piano studies began at the Sverdlovsk School for the Gifted with Natalia Litvinova. He went on to graduate from the Moscow Conservatory with the highest honors in 1990 working with legendary teacher Lev Naumov. Mr. Itin won his first major piano competition while at the Conservatory, taking second place in the 1990 Russian National Rachmaninov Competition. Soon after, he won top honors in the William Kapell Competition, followed by First Prize, and the Special Chopin Prize at the Casadesus Competition (Cleveland Competition), and the Best Performance of a Work of Mozart, Best Prokofiev Performance, and Third Prize at the Gina Bachauer Competition.

Ilya Itin is on the teaching faculties of the Musashino Academy in Tokyo, the Academy of the Miami International Piano Festival and the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University. He has also taught in the piano departments of the Juilliard School prep and college divisions, Peabody Conservatory, and the Graduate Program at CUNY. Ilya Itin resides in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City where he maintains a private teaching studio.

 

“This young artist’s potential is boundless.”

THE WASHINGTON POST

Hailed by the Washington Post as a young artist with “boundless potential” who can “already hold his own with the best,” pianist Aristo Sham has dazzled audiences on five continents in countries ranging from Singapore and Argentina to Slovenia, Morocco, and throughout the United States.

He recently performed as soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart, the English Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra.

Mr. Sham won First Prize at the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. The Young Concert Artists Series will present his debut recitals in New York at Merkin Concert Hall and in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center Theater this season.

He also won First Prize at the 2019 Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in Italy, the Silver Medal at the 2018 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition, First Prize at the 2018 Charles Wadsworth International Piano Competition, First Prize and the Barenreiter Urtext Special Prize at Germany’s Ettlingen International Piano Competition, and First Prize at the New York International Piano Competition.

A native of Hong Kong, Aristo Sham was granted a B.A. in Economics from Harvard in 2019, and an M.Mus. in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2020. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Ingesund Piano Centre, and has attended the Harrow School in the United Kingdom and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. In his free time, Mr. Sham enjoys travelling, languages, gastronomy and oenology.

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