 Larissa Dedova
Professor, Piano
Phone: 301-405-8686
M.M., Moscow State Conservatory; D.M.A., Moscow State Conservatory
For over 25 years, Larissa Dedova has performed extensively as a soloist and in duo with her husband Mikhail Volchok in concert halls throughout the world. She has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras including St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic,Orchestre de Chambre de Budapest, Moscow Philharmonic, Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, and many others.
As a recitalist, Ms. Dedova appears frequently in major venues throughout Europe, Russia and the United Stated. She has appeared as festival artist for numerous music festivals such as the William Kapell International Piano Competition at Maryland, Semaines Musicales de Tours in France, White Nights in Russia and Russian Stars in South Korea. Her chamber music activities include performances with the Guarneri String Quartet, flutist Raimond Guiot and cellist Menahem Meir.
By the age of five, Ms. Dedova had begun her studies at the Gnessin Special Music School and then continued her education at the Moscow State Gnessin College. She holds both a Master's and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she studied with Lev Oborin and Evgeny Malinin. A prodigious technique and musical aplomb have earned her the most important honors and awards from both the Moscow State Conservatory Beethoven Concerto Competition and the Bach International Competition of Leipzig.
The lyricism, romanticism and virtuosity of Ms. Dedova's performances have brought her critical acclaim and the love and affection of her audiences. Recently, the Washington Post described Ms. Dedova's performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor with the Fairfax Symphony as a "performance that went straight to the heart of the music."
A dedicated teacher who is regarded highly for her masterclasses presented throughout the US, Europe and Asia, Ms. Dedova has prepared many winners of most notable international piano competitions. Her recording credits include releases for the "Melodia" label in her native country as well as for ConClaRec and Morning Storm labels.
 Bradford Gowen
Associate Professor of Piano
Phone: 301-405-5520
B.M., Eastman School of Music; M.M., Eastman School of Music
Bradford Gowen has received national attention since winning first prize in the 1978 Kennedy Center/Rockefeller Foundation International Competition for Excellence in the Performance of American Music. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Eastman School of Music where he studied piano with Cecile Genhart and composition with Samuel Adler. He later studied piano with Leon Fleisher and with Dorothy Taubman.
After winning the American music prize, Mr. Gowen made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall and recorded an album of American music for New World Records; in Spring 1998 this recording, Exultation, was re-released as a CD with additional, newly-recorded pieces included. On Memorial Day 1980, he performed Aaron Copland's Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer; the next year he performed several more times with that orchestra under Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Shostakovich. In January 1985 he performed the world premiere of Samuel Adler's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. In 1998 he played at the MTNA national convention, and he performed and gave a masterclass in the 70th birthday celebration for Leon Fleisher at the University of Kansas. In 2000, he gave the world premiere of the Piano Sonata of Judith Lang Zaimont.
Mr. Gowen's numerous chamber music performances have included appearances at the Library of Congress Summer Chamber Festival. He has also appeared with cellist David Soyer, with the Kronos Quartet, and with the Guarneri Quartet. He has made many duo appearances with his wife, pianist Maribeth Gowen, including a 1997 Schubert bicentennial concert at the National Gallery of Art devoted to the composer's four-hand works.
He wrote for over twenty years for The Piano Quarterly and Piano & Keyboard, and he made a number of recordings for The Piano Quarterly. In 2002 he wrote a major series of three articles on twentieth-century American piano music for the London-
based International Piano. Mr. Gowen has served as a judge for several international piano competitions, including the Kapell, the Gina Bachauer, and the Sydney, and he was a member of the Advisory Committee that created and ran the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors National Concerto Competition. Since 1981 he has been on the faculty at the University of Maryland. For three years he taught also at the Levine School of Music (Washington, DC), and in 2005 he joined the faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music. He is one of the 48 pianists featured in Benjamin Saver's 1993 book The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA.
 Cleveland Page
Professor, Piano
Phone: 301-405-5513
Dr. Cleveland Page joined the Piano Division in 1992. Prior to his appointment at Maryland, Dr. Page was Professor of Piano at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he had been Professor of Piano, and served three years as Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In 1996, he was appointed Chair of the Piano Division at the University of Maryland, a position he held until 2007 when he took leave to revise his critically acclaimed class piano textbooks and to learn the J.S. Bach Toccatas for keyboard. Dr. Page is currently recording the complete Toccatas. For this recording project, he is recording in the Dekelboum Concert Hall of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, using his personally customized Steinway concert grand piano, which was rebuilt by Piano Craft of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
While serving as Chair of the Piano Division at Maryland, he added several outstanding teachers to the piano faculty, including Larissa Dedova and Michael Volchok from the Moscow Conservatory, Rita Sloan, and André Watts. Under his leadership, the Piano Division of the University of Maryland became one of the most desirable places to study piano in America.
Among the many teachers with whom Dr. Page has studied, two influenced him the most: Alfonso Montecino, a pupil of Claudia Arrau, and Mme. Olga Conus, a pupil of Nicolai Medtner. He also studied piano at the College of Puget Sound, the University of Washington, Indiana University and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Professor Page's graduates are teaching in colleges, universities and music schools throughout the United States and in other countries, as well as maintaining active performance careers. In 2007, one of Dr. Page's students became a Mason and Hamlin artist. His students have entered and gained recognition in major piano competitions, including the Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy; the Montréal International Piano Competition in Montréal, Canada; and the Washington International Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. Dr. Page has had many winners in local competitions, including a first prize winner of the Maryland State MTNA College Competition.
While still a young man, Dr. Page became an authority on group piano teaching and wrote three successful textbooks on the subject. He also lectured throughout the United States, Germany and other countries in Europe. He has served on the jury for several piano competitions, including The World Piano Competition (AMSA) in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Grace Welch Piano Competition in Chicago. Twice he served on the selection jury for the William Kappel International Piano Competition at the University of Maryland.
An authority on historical performance practice and technique, Dr. Page teaches undergraduate and doctoral seminars in Piano Pedagogy.
 Mikhail Volchok
Lecturer, Piano
Phone: 301-405-5536
B.M., Moscow State Conservatory; M.M., Leningrad State Conservatory; Ph.D., Leningrad State Conservatory
An internationally renowned professor of piano studies across Russia, South Korea, Italy and the United States, Mikhail Volchok studied with many of the most renowned teachers in Russia's best schools. Dr. Volchok studied with Yakov Zak at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and with Pavel Serebrjakov at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, and at the age of twenty-five went on to win the Bach International Competition, as well as the competitions of the Pan Soviet and the Russian Contest.
A soloist member of the Moscow Philharmonic Society since 1979, Dr. Volchok has toured throughout the world. His wide-ranging repertoire includes works of Bach, Haydn, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Kabalevsky, Schedrin and Tsitovich. He has taught at the Leningrad State Conservatory, the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, and the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as Italy's Cividale del Friuli, and South Korea's Taegu. He has served as a visiting professor at the Music Academy "Ino Mirkovich" in Croatia. His well-documented career includes a wealth of recordings on the Russian label Melodiya.
 Mayron Tsong
Associate Professor
Phone: 301-405-5075
Steinway Artist, Mayron Tsong, has been taken by her performances around the globe to almost every state in the continental United States, as well as Canada, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. After her solo recital Debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Harris Goldsmith of The New York Concert Review praised it as "an enlivening, truly outstanding recital." Fanfare Magazine called her "a genius, pure and simple... perhaps, a wizard."
After the release of her first CD by Centaur Records, rave reviews in American Record Guide and Fanfare Magazine compared her playing to Horowitz, Pollini, Andsnes and Laredo, saying "her technique is dazzling, yet subjugated to a controlling intellect and deeply felt sensitivity that removes her from the category 'virtuoso' by nature of her long-range artistic vision."
Winner of numerous competitions and prizes, Mayron has performed and interviewed for many radio broadcasts, including CBC Radio in Canada, WDAV in North Carolina, WFMT Radio in Chicago, Radio 4 in Hong Kong and NPR's "The State of Things." She has appeared as soloist with orchestras around the world, including the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic (Russia), Symphony North (Houston), Longview Symphony Orchestra (Texas), North Carolina Symphony, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra (Canada), and Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra (Canada). Equally active in chamber music collaborations, her summers have taken her to festivals across the United States, Prague, Germany and Italy, including Eastern Music Festival, Prague International Piano Masterclasses and Schlern International Music Festival and Orfeo Chamber Music Festival in Italy. Her collaborations with some of the finest chamber groups and musicians in North America include Jeffrey Zeigler (of the Kronos Quartet), Brentano String Quartet, Philharmonic Quintet of New York, Miró String Quartet, Vega String Quartet, James Campbell, George Taylor and Antonio Lysy.
A native of Canada, Dr. Tsong is one of the youngest musicians to complete a Performer's Diploma in Piano from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto at age 16. While still a student, she was awarded the Millennium Prize for Russian Performing Arts, and she is a three-time recipient of The Female Doctoral Students Grant, a competition that encompasses all disciplines nationwide, awarded by the Government of Canada. Holding graduate degrees in both Piano Performance and Music Theory from Rice University, her impressive pedigree boasts distinguished teachers like John Perry, György Sebök, Robert Levin, Anton Kuerti and Marilyn Engle. Gaining recognition as a pedagogue herself, she has appeared around the world as a master class clinician, lecturer, judge and Visiting Professor.
She was recently added to Who's Who Among Professional Artists as well as Who's Who Among American Teachers & Educators, and she is an Honorary Member of the Tingshuset Music Society in Sweden along with prominent Swedish Artists like Martin Fröst and Christian Lindberg
Mayron is currently Associate Professor and Artist Teacher of Piano at the School of Music at the University of Maryland. She previously served as Head of Keyboard Studies at the University of Lethbridge and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
 Rita Sloan
Professor, Collaborative Piano Piano Division CONTACT:
+1 301 405 5527 B.S., M.M., The Juilliard School Rita Sloan is acknowledged internationally as a leading teacher of piano, collaborative piano and chamber music. In 1999, she was appointed a piano faculty member and director of the collaborative piano program at the University of Maryland. As an Artist Faculty Member at the Aspen Music Festival, Ms. Sloan founded their Collaborative Piano Program. She has performed as soloist with both the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Chamber Symphony as well as in chamber music with many of Aspen’s distinguished guest artists including pianists Wu Han and Orli Shaham, violinists Sarah Chang and Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, cellist Gary Hoffman, bassist Edgar Meyer and flutist Emmanuel Pahud. Teaching residencies and master class presentations have included Tainan National University of the Arts and National Normal University in Taiwan, China Conservatory in Beijing, China, leading universities in Seoul, Korea, London’s Royal College of Music, American universities and conservatories including numerous visits to the Juilliard School in New York. Ms. Sloan has performed with orchestra, in recital, and in chamber music throughout the U.S., Europe, South America and Japan. She has been a guest in many chamber music venues and has performed with members of the Emerson and Guarneri String Quartets. Born in Russia to Polish parents, Ms. Sloan graduated from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Martin Canin and Rosina Lhévinne. Further studies were with Leon Fleisher, Aube Tzerko, Herbert Stessin and Vladimir Ashkenazy. |
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