 Bernadene Blaha http://bernadeneblaha.com
Senior Lecturer of Keyboard Studies
213) 740-3106 phone
blaha@usc.edu
Bernadene Blaha's "brilliant command of the piano", whether featured as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician, has been heralded in performances throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Mexico. This season’s highlights include her debut performances in Australia, as well as an invitation to serve as a jury member at the prestigious 2010 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Originally from Canada, Ms. Blaha first came to international attention as a prizewinner in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition; the Young Keyboard Artists International Piano Competition, Grand Rapids, Michigan; the Masterplayers International Competition, Lugano, Switzerland; and the 11th Annual International Piano Competition, New York City. This latter award resulted in two highly acclaimed recital appearances, at Carnegie Recital Hall and the Lincoln Center Library. Soon afterward, Ms. Blaha was featured in the opening orchestra concert and a solo recital at the XXIX International Chopin Festival in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia, followed by solo recitals at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and in London, England.
In the summer of 1999, Ms. Blaha was invited by Canada's "Piano 6" to perform with the group in televised gala concerts in Lanaudiere and in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre. She remained an active touring member of the project through the completion of it's ten year mandate in 2003.
A highly regarded chamber musician, Ms. Blaha has been a regular guest at international festivals including, The Newport Festival, Tucson Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Festival of the Sound, Bard Festival, Banff Festival of the Arts, Round Top International Festival and Festival de San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Ms. Blaha's first solo CD featured the piano music of Chopin. Piano & Keyboard's review referred to her as " a pianist of integrity, with lovely sonorities and total clarity of line. She understands and respects Chopin and lets his eloquence speak for itself." Her discography also includes a CBC Records CD of Sonatas by Strauss, Debussy, and Barber with cellist Shauna Rolston and an album of the complete works of Schumann with violist Rivka Golani. Her most recent CD of the complete works of Felix Mendelssohn for Cello and Piano with cellist Elizabeth Dolin was released on the Analekta label.
Born in Brantford, Ontario, Ms. Blaha was a scholarship student of Boris Berlin at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and of Mme. Ania Dorfmann at the Juilliard School where she graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Music Degree. Her other mentors included: Marek Jablonski, Menahem Pressler, Gyorgy Sebok and Ludwig Stefanski.
Ms. Blaha currently resides in Los Angeles, and since 1993 has been a member of the Keyboard Faculty at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California.
 Lucinda Carver
Associate Professor of Keyboard Studies and Conducting
(213) 740-7703 phone
carver@usc.edu
“Carver makes musical thought manifest” – Daniel Cariaga, Los Angeles Times. Extremely gifted and versatile, Lucinda Carver enjoys a prominent career as pianist, harpsichordist and conductor. As music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra from 1992-2001, Carver garnered critical praise for her stylistic interpretations of music from the Classical Era. Active in both the symphonic and operatic arenas, she has been proclaimed “a find…a first-rate conductor” by Bernard Holland of The New York Times and “an important emerging conductor” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. Carver’s symphonic credits include appearances with the National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Richmond Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has conducted at major music festivals, including Wolf Trap, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s ‘Next Wave’ Festival and the Orange County Performing Arts Center’s ‘Eclectic Orange’ Festival and was featured at Davies Hall as part of the San Francisco Symphony 'Great Performers' Series.
Carver has conducted productions of Don Pasquale with the New York City Opera, Don Giovanni with the Minnesota Opera, Die Zauberflöte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Le nozze di Figaro with the
Virginia Opera. With the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra she conducted two critically acclaimed recordings on the RCM label, featuring Haydn Symphonies Nos. 43 & 48 and Mozart Symphonies No. 17, 29 and 34. She also led the orchestra on two North American tours under the aegis of Columbia Artist Management, highlights of which were featured on ‘CBS Sunday Morning.’ Carver is also a highly acclaimed pianist and harpsichordist. As a Fulbright Fellow to Austria she concertized extensively throughout Europe. She has performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Musica Angelica, Capella Salisburgensis, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and Manhattan Philharmonic, and frequently took the dual role of soloist/conductor in Mozart piano concerti with the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra. Carver has been featured in solo and chamber music recitals at the Carmel Bach Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Prince George Music Festival and under the aegis of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast across the United States on National Public Radio, WNYC, WGBH and locally on KUSC and K-Mozart. In Fall of 2009 she was named artistic director of the Centrum Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival.
Carver earned a doctor of musical arts from the USC Thornton School of Music, an Artist Diploma from the Salzburg ‘Mozarteum’ and a master of music from the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include pianists Murray Perahia, Gary Graffman, Hans Leygraf and John Perry, harpsichordist Malcolm Hamilton and conductors Gustav Meier and William Schaefer. In 1998 she joined the faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music where she teaches piano, harpsichord and conducting.
 Kevin Fitz-Gerald
Professor of Keyboard Collaborative Arts and Keyboard Studies
(213) 740-7703 phone
kfitzger@usc.edu or prokfg@mac.com
Pianist Kevin Fitz-Gerald enjoys a versatile performing career as recitalist, orchestra soloist, and chamber musician. His performances have garnered international acclaim and he has been recognized for his “hypnotically powerful and precise” pianism and “dynamic and distinguished” interpretations. His concert tours and performances have taken place in major concert halls, universities, and concert organizations throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, South America, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. Notable venues include Carnegie Recital Hall (New York), The Mormon Tabernacle (Utah), National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Roy Thompson Hall (Toronto), Place des Arts (Montreal), Izumi Hall (Osaka), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), National Gallery (Kingston), and Town Hall (Melbourne). He has appeared with several Canadian and American orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Canadian Chamber Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Los Angeles Cameratta, Utah Chamber Orchestra, and the Mormon Tabernacle Orchestra at Temple Square. Recent orchestral performances have included concerti by Dvorak, Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Berg, and Poulenc.
Fitz-Gerald’s concerts have frequently been recorded for local, national, and international radio and television networks in Canada, the U.S., South America, France, Japan, and Australia. His CD recordings can be found on the Summit, Quatro Corde, AFCM, and GM Records labels. In constant demand as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Patrick Gallois, Stephen Isserlis, Richard Stolzman, Alan Civil, Camilla Wicks, Midori, Eudice Shapiro, Milton Thomas, Karen Tuttle, Donald McInnes, Ronald Leonard, the Bartok, St. Petersburg, and St. Lawrence String Quartets.
For many years, Fitz-Gerald was studio pianist in summer programs for some of the leading artist teachers of our time, including William Primrose, Lillian Fuchs, Zara Nelsova, Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Zoltan Szekely, Lorand Fenyves, and Marcel Moyse. He regularly performs two-piano and four-hand recitals with Bernadene Blaha, appearing at prestigious festivals, conventions, music teacher’s symposiums, and concert venues throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Blaha/Fitz-Gerald Duo has performed extensively throughout Canada under the auspices of the Piano Six program, the Canada Council Touring Office, and the Cross Country Classics program.
Fitz-Gerald also enjoys an international reputation as a teacher, presenting masterclasses and lecture-symposiums throughout the world. His students have been prize-winners in many major piano and chamber music competitions, including the Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Vilna International Piano Competition, IBLA International Piano Competition, American Orff-Schullwerke International Competition, ARD International Piano Competition, the Music Teacher’s National Association national competition, Los Angeles Liszt International Piano Competition, Jean Francaix International Competition, Canadian National Music Competitions, and the Colman National Chamber Music Competition. Today his students can be found winning competitions, performing, recording, and teaching at many of the finest conservatories and universities throughout the world. In addition to his position as associate professor at the USC Thornton School, Fitz-Gerald is also a regular visiting artist teacher at the Banff School of Fine Arts, a frequent masterclass teacher at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, the Aria International Summer Institute in Indiana, as well as visiting faculty at many other national and international music festivals and institutions throughout Canada and the U.S.
Born in Kelowna, British Columbia, Fitz-Gerald was a full scholarship student at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where his principal teachers were Marek Jablonski, Robin Wood, and Alma Brock-Smith. In addition, he has worked extensively with Menahem Pressler, John Perry, Gyorgy Sebok, and Leon Fleisher. He has won several prestigious competitions, grants, and awards, including the Du Maurier Search for the Stars, CBC National Radio Auditions, and the Young Artists’ National Piano Competition
 Stewart Gordon http://stewartgordon.com/
Professor of Keyboard Studies
(213) 740-3118 phone
stewgor@sbcglobal.net
Stewart Gordon’s career included posts at the University of Maryland, Music Department Professor and Chair and Queens College (New York) as Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs. He toured in the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan, the Caribbean, and Saudi Arabia. He recorded works by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, De Falla, Scriabin, Ellis Kohs, Luis de Frietas-Branco, and the complete Rachmaninoff Preludes. He has authored Etudes for Piano Teachers and Mastering the Art of Performance (Oxford); A History of Keyboard Literature (Schirmer); co-author of The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher (Schirmer). He made CD’s of Memorization in Piano Performance and Performance Practice in Late 20th Century Piano Music (Alfred). He is editor of the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven (Alfred) . As a composer he writes primarily for musical theater and his shows were produced in New York, Washington, Savannah, Hollywood, and Hawaii. He created the William Kapell International Piano Competition, directing it for 15 years; also the Savannah Music Festival and its American Traditions Competition, directing it for 14 years. He adjudicated many international piano competitions..Stewart Gordon graduated from the University of Kansas (BM and MM) and The University of Rochester (Eastman School) (DMA), and holds a diploma from the Staatliches Konservatorium des Saarlands. His teachers were Olga Samaroff, Walter Gieseking, Cecile Genhart, and Adele Marcus. He has many awards: Ramo Award for service to Music (2001), Maryland State Creative and Performing Arts Award (1982), Maryland State Music Teachers Award for Distinguished Service to Music (1979), and Danforth Teacher Study Grant (1960). He is a Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda (music), and Scabbard and Blade (military). As a young man he served four years as a junior officer in the United States Navy.
 Norman Krieger
Associate Professor of Keyboard Studies
(213) 740-7703 phone
pianopill@aol.com
Norman Krieger, associate professor, keyboard studies, began his training in Los Angeles under the tutelage of Esther Lipton, and became a full scholarship student of Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School at the age of 15. He received both bachelor's and master's degrees at the Juilliard School. Subsequently, he studied with Alfred Brendel and Maria Curcio in London, and was awarded an artist's diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Russell Sherman. Mr. Krieger is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation, highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity and virtuosic flair. He regularly appears with the major ensembles of world, among them the New York, Los Angeles, Hamilton and Hong Kong philharmonics, the 10 symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Honolulu, Pittsburgh, San Antonio and San Diego, the Boston Pops Orchestra, Prague's Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Turkey's Presidential Symphony Orchestra and Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra.
In recital, Mr. Krieger has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico and Asia, while chamber music collaborations have included appearances with soprano Sheri Greenawald, violinist Livia Sohn, cellist Jian Wang and the Tokyo and Manhattan String Quartets. Mr. Krieger appeared at New York City's prestigious Mostly Mozart Festival, earning an immediate invitation to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' "Great Performers Series." His awards include the Gold Medalist of the first Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition, the Paderewski Foundation Award, the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Prize, the Victor Herbert Memorial Prize, the Buffalo Philharmonic Young Artists Competition Prize and the St. Louis Symphony Prize. Mr. Krieger's recordings include the two Brahms concerti on the Beaufour label, Gershwin Piano Solos (Stradivari Classics), American Piano Concertos and Norman Krieger Piano Recital (Artisie 4 Recordings) and Summerdays (Well-Tempered Productions). Mr. Krieger is founding artistic director of the Prince Albert Chamber Music Festival in Kauai, Hawaii.
Sung-Hwa Park Lecturer of Keyboard Studies
(213) 740-9503 phone
sunghwap@usc.edu
Dr. Sung-Hwa Park, lecturer for the keyboard department, teaches the beginning 2 semester piano pedagogy courses and the 4 semester sequence of required freshman and sophomore functional skills for piano majors. Dr. Park also teaches music fundamentals, theory classes and is the coordinator of keyboard studies at California State University Dominguez Hills.
Dr. Park received her DMA in piano performance at USC where she studied with Stewart Gordon. At USC, she was a teaching assistant in the piano department and did her DMA 4th field of study in electro-acoustic media. She is an avid performer in electronic music, solo piano literature and collaborative arts.
 Antoinette Perry Senior Lecturer of Keyboard Studies
(213) 740-7703 phone
pianiep@aol.com
Antoinette Perry, born to professional musicians, gave her first public performance at the age of four. Since then, she has appeared throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, collaborating with many of the world’s greatest artists, including Leon Fleisher, Ralph Kirshbaum, Ronald Leonard, Brooks Smith, Carol Wincenc, Froydis Ree Wekre, David Shifrin, John Perry, Gabor Rejto, Nathaniel Rosen, Jeffrey Solow, Henri Temianka, Eugene Fodor, and actors Michael York and Walter Matthau. She has performed with members of the American, Chicago, Cleveland, Emerson, Juilliard, Paganini, Sequoia, and Takacs String Quartets, and also with concertmasters and/or principals of the L.A., New York, Rotterdam and the Hague Philharmonics, the Concertgebau, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Gulbenkian and Zurich Tonhalle Orchestras, the Chicago, St. Louis, Toronto, and San Francisco Symphonies, and the L.A. and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras.
Having performed in festivals throughout America, Ms. Perry has been heard often on NPR’s Performance Today, the Bravo! Channel, and Continental Airlines’ In-Flight Programming. Recordings with flutist David Shostac have been issued by Harmonie, and Excelsior (Sam Goody). Ms. Perry joined the artist-faculty at the Aspen Music Festival & School in 1985, and has since performed in around 100 Aspen Festival Concerts.
Distinguishing herself also as a pedagogue, Ms. Perry served for 12 years for the UCLA piano faculty before joining the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music in 1996. She frequently gives master classes and serves as an adjucator. Former students are enjoying successful careers as performers and pedagogues throughout the U.S. and Asia.
 Daniel Pollack http://www.danielpollack.com
Professor of Keyboard Studies
(213) 740-7703 phone
danielp@danielpollack.com
Daniel Pollack's concert career has taken him worldwide across five continents – North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.
Highlight appearances as soloist with major orchestras in the U.S. include the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony; and worldwide, Moscow State Philharmonic, St. Petersburg, Russia, London's Royal Philharmonic, Bergen Symphony, Norway, Seoul Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Bogota, Colombia, Montevideo Symphony, among others.
Pollack has performed solo recitals in the major music centers of the world including London's Royal Festival Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Buenos Aires' Teatro Colon, Seoul's Arts Center, Moscow's Bolshoi Zal, New York's Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Los Angeles' Music Center. Additional highlights of Pollack's career include guest appearances at Tchaikovsky's home in Kline, Russia, performing on the composer's piano and at a joint session of the United States Congress in honor of President Harry Truman’s Centennial.
Pollack is much in demand on international competition juries. He has participated several times on the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition held in Moscow as well as on the Queen Elizabeth in Brussels; Montreal, Canada; Leeds, England; Ciurlionis, Vilnius, Lithuania; Gina Bachauer, Salt Lake City; Hamamatsu and Sonoda Competitions in Japan; UNISA in Pretoria, South Africa; Prokofiev in St. Petersburg; and the Rachmaninoff in Moscow.
Pollack first garnered the music world's attention when he became a prize-winner in the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Following, he concertized throughout the former Soviet Union and became the first American to record there for Melodya. Later, these were re-issued in Europe and the U.S. under several different labels. Subsequent recordings were for Columbia.
Pollack is much in demand on international competition juries. He has participated several times on the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition held in Moscow as well as on the Queen Elizabeth in Brussels; Montreal, Canada; Leeds, England; Ciurlionis, Vilnius, Lithuania; Gina Bachauer, Salt Lake City; Hamamatsu and Sonoda Competitions in Japan; UNISA in Pretoria, South Africa; Prokofiev in St. Petersburg; and the Rachmaninoff in Moscow.
 Dr. Alan L. Smith
Professor of Keyboard Collaborative Arts and Keyboard Studies
(213) 740-3117 phone
alansmit@usc.edu
Pianist Alan Smith enjoys a reputation as one of the United States’ most highly regarded figures in the field of collaborative artistry. His performing experiences have included associations in major musical venues with such musical personalities as bass-baritone, Thomas Stewart; soprano, Barbara Bonney; mezzo-soprano, Stephanie Blythe; violist, Donald McInnes; violinist, Eudice Shapiro; as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Virtuosi. Broadcasts of his performances, compositions, and interviews have been aired on WQXR Radio and WNYE Television in New York City, KUSC in Los Angeles, and North German Radio. His expertise and experience in song literature, chamber music, and opera make him much sought after as vn accompanist, coach, faculty colleague, teacher of master classes, and adjudicator of area and international competitions, including regular engagements as a judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
At the USC Thornton School of Music, Professor Smith serves as the chair of Keyboard Studies as well as the director of the Keyboard Collaborative Arts Program, one of the oldest and largest programs of its kind the country. Having studied with the legendary Martin Katz, Alan Smith has become a teacher of renown himself; among his awards are the Virginia Ramo Award for excellence in teaching and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Thornton School and the Inaugural Mellon Award Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring. His current and former students maintain important positions internationally in the field of collaborative piano and coaching. He has served for 20 years as a member of the vocal coaching faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center in western Massachusetts, was formerly that program’s vocal program coordinator, and now serves as the coordinator of the piano program, for which he holds a named chair as the Marian Douglas Martin Master Teacher.
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