 Bruce Brubaker
Chair, Piano; Piano Literature
Bruce Brubaker joined the New England Conservatory faculty as piano chair in 2005. In live performances from the Hollywood Bowl to New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, from Paris to Hong Kong, and in his continuing series of recordings for Arabesque—Bruce Brubaker is a visionary virtuoso. Named “Young Musician of the Year” by Musical America, Bruce Brubaker performs Mozart with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Philip Glass on the BBC. Profiled on NBC’s "Today" show, Brubaker’s playing, writing, and collaborations continue to show a shining, and sometimes surprising future for pianists and piano playing. His blog “PianoMorphosis” appears at ArtsJournal.com.
Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post critic Tim Page has said: “I wouldn't trade Pollini, Argerich, Richard Goode, Peter Serkin or Bruce Brubaker (to mention a terrific younger artist) for any handful of Horowitzes!” Brubaker was presented by Carnegie Hall at Zankel Hall in New York, at Trifolion in Echternach, at Michigan’s Gilmore Festival, and at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, as the opening-night performer in the museum’s acclaimed new Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed building. He is a frequent performer at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge.
Bruce Brubaker’s CDs for Arabesque include Time Curve (music by Philip Glass and William Duckworth), Hope Street Tunnel Blues (music by Glass and Alvin Curran, featuring Brubaker’s transcription of a portion of Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach), Inner Cities (including a live recording of John Adams’s Phrygian Gates and Brubaker’s transcription of part of Adams’s opera Nixon in China), and the first CD in the series, glass cage, named one of the best releases of the year by The New Yorker magazine.
Brubaker has premiered works by Glass, Nico Muhly, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and John Cage. He performed at Sanders Theater in collaboration with Cage during the composer's tenure as Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. Of Brubaker's playing at a later recital at Harvard, The Boston Globe wrote: “A big-toned, brainy, firebrand kind of music making that made you think of—dare one say this?—Rudolf Serkin.”
Following his New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Brubaker was awarded a solo artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His London debut at the Wigmore Hall led to his first broadcast concert on the BBC, an all-Brahms recital. Brubaker has appeared at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, London’s Wigmore Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Antwerp’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Finland’s Kuhmo Festival.
Bruce Brubaker has appeared on RAI in Italy and is featured in the documentary film about the Juilliard School, made for the PBS “American Masters Series.” As a member of Affiliate Artists Xerox Pianists Program, he presented residencies and performed with orchestras throughout the United States.
At NEC, in addition to his teaching duties, Brubaker has coordinated schoolwide celebrations of the music of Chopin, Haydn, Messiaen, Mozart, Schuller, and Shostakovich that have included performers outside the piano department, as well as Preparatory students performing alongside College piano majors. For 2011, Brubaker is organizing performances at NEC of the complete piano music of Liszt. Under Brubaker's guidance, the weekly Piano Seminar has exposed piano majors and curious members of the public to a wide range of performers and thinkers.
Brubaker has given masterclasses and forums at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Columbia University, Leipzig’s Hochschüle für Musik, the École Normale in Paris, Ghent’s Orpheus Instituut, North Carolina’s Eastern Music Festival, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Brubaker's articles about music have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Piano Quarterly, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and Chamber Music magazine. He was co-editor and a contributor to Pianist, Scholar, Connoisseur: Essays in Honor of Jacob Lateiner (Pendragon Press, 2000), a collection paying homage to his former teacher. His essay “Time Is Time” appears in Unfolding Time (2009), available in the U.S. from Cornell University Press. He presented the closing recital in Harvard University’s Crosscurrents conference in 2008. He is the U.S. representative for "Behind the Music: The Performer as Researcher," a research initiative based in Australia.
Prior to coming to NEC, Brubaker was the creator in 2000–2001 of “B-A-C-H,” a six-concert series in New York examining the connections between J. S. Bach and the composers who followed him. The previous year, at the turn of the millennium, he organized “Piano Century,” in which 100 pianists performed 101 twentieth-century pieces in eleven concerts. In 2004, Brubaker created and performed Pianomorphosis, a 70-minute multidisciplinary performance piece for the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Michigan. Brubaker's performance piece Haydnseek, was created together with Nico Muhly. Brubaker is the founder and artistic director of the chamber music festival SummerMusic in his native Iowa.
Well known in the music profession as an identifier and nurturer of musical talent, Brubaker's students have won major international competitions and prizes, and built recording and performing careers throughout the world.
Brubaker trained at the Juilliard School, where he received the school's highest award, the Edward Steuermann Prize, upon graduation. At Juilliard, where he taught from 1995 to 2005, he has appeared in public conversations with Philip Glass, Milton Babbitt, and Meredith Monk.
B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. in piano, The Juilliard School. Principal piano studies with Jacob Lateiner; chamber music with Felix Galimir and Louis Krasner; analysis with Milton Babbitt. Recordings on Arabesque and Vital Music. Former faculty of the Juilliard School.
 Wha Kyung Byun
Wha Kyung Byun was born and educated in Korea, where she won several competitions and was chosen by Seoul's leading newspaper as the most talented young artist in the country. She has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras in Korea, including the National Symphony Orchestra, and has performed in solo and chamber concerts throughout her homeland. Since coming to the U.S., Byun has performed throughout the Northeast and Midwest and has taught many students who have gone on to win major competitions.
B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Seoul National University; M.M., NEC. Piano with Russell Sherman, Won Bok Kim; chamber music with Rudolph Kolisch.
 Gabriel Chodos
Gabriel Chodos chaired the NEC piano department for 25 years. Renowned as a teacher, concert artist, and recording artist, Chodos also spent many summers as a mainstay of the Aspen Music Festival faculty. With Aube Tzerko—a Schnabel student—as his principal teacher, and with Schoenberg assistant Leonard Stein as his theory teacher, Chodos is in a direct line from two 20th century masters of the European classical tradition.
Known in particular for his interpretations of music from the heart of the pianist's repertoire—Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms in particular—Chodos has been heard in NPR broadcasts of these composers, who also form the bulk of his substantial recorded output.
Chodos has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Israel. In the U.S., his performance venues have included the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony Hall, and the Library of Congress. He has been a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Holland, and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
A winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York, Chodos also received a Fulbright Scholarship, Martha Baird Rockefeller grants, and an NEA Solo Recitalists Grant.
He has given masterclasses and lecture-demonstrations at Yale University, Indiana University, the Rutgers Summerfest, the Chautauqua Festival, the Guildhall School of Music in London, the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig, the Estonian Music Academy in Tallinn, the Toho Gakuen School of Music, and Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.
B.A. in philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, and M.A. in music, UCLA; Diploma in Piano, Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna. Principal piano studies with Aube Tzerko; also with Leonard Shure, Josef Dichler, Carlo Zecchi. Recordings on Fleur de Son, Centaur, Orion, Victor/Japan, and CRI. Former faculty of University of Oregon, SUNY/Buffalo, Dartmouth College, and the Aspen Music Festival
 Stephen Drury
Piano; Chamber Music; Music History and Musicology; Director, NEC Avant Garde Ensemble; Director, Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice
Stephen Drury has given performances throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America, soloing with orchestras from San Diego to Bucharest. A prize winner in several competitions, including the Concert Artists Guild, Affiliate Artists, and Carnegie Hall/Rockefeller competitions, his repertoire stretches from Bach, Mozart, and Liszt to the music of today.
The U.S. State Department sponsored two concert tours that enabled him to take the sounds of dissonance to Paris, Hong Kong, Greenland, Pakistan, Prague, and Japan. He has appeared as conductor and pianist at the Angelica Festival in Italy, the MusikTriennale Köln in Germany, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Britten Sinfonia in England, as well as at Tonic, Roulette, and the Knitting Factory in New York. Drury has also performed with Merce Cunningham and Mikhail Barishnikov in the Lincoln Center Festival, at Alice Tully Hall as part of the Great Day in New York Festival, with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and with the Seattle Chamber Players in Seattle and Moscow.
A champion of 20th-century music, Drury’s critically acclaimed performances range from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by John Cage and György Ligeti. He premiered the solo part of John Cage’s 101 with the BSO and gave the first performance of John Zorn’s concerto for piano and orchestra Aporias with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony. He has commissioned new works from Cage, Zorn, Terry Riley, Lee Hyla, and Chinary Ung.
Drury has given masterclasses at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Mannes Beethoven Insitute and throughout the world, and served on juries for the Concert Artist Guild and Orléans Concours International de Piano XXème Siècle Competitions.
His recordings include music by Beethoven, Liszt, Stockhausen, Ravel, Stravinsky, Charles Ives, Elliott Carter, Frederic Rzewski, John Cage, Colin McPhee, and John Zorn. Drury created and directs NEC’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance, and assumed directorship of NEC’s Enchanted Circle concert series in 1997.
A.B. Harvard College; Artist Diploma New England Conservatory. Piano with Claudio Arrau, Patricia Zander, Margaret Ott, William Masselos, Theodore Lettvin. Recordings on Tzadik, Mode, New Albion, MusicMasters, Catalyst, Avant, Neuma, Carlton Classics.
 Randall Hodgkinson
Randall Hodgkinson is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has given solo performances with orchestras of Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, and New York. He has recorded solo music of Donald Martino and Roger Sessions and concerti of Gardner Read and Morton Gould. He performs two-piano, four-hand literature with his wife, Leslie Amper.
B.M. with honors, M.M. with distinction, Artist Diploma, NEC. Studies with Veronica Jochum, Russell Sherman, Leonard Shure. Recordings on New World, Albany.
Veronica Jochum The daughter of eminent conductor Eugen Jochum (1902-87), German-born pianist Veronica Jochum has been associated with musical greatness since her early childhood. A former student of Josef Benvenuti, Edwin Fischer, and Rudolf Serkin, her illustrious career spans five decades and includes performances in more than 50 countries in collaboration with many of the world's premier orchestras, conductors, and musicians. Critics have called her "an institution at the piano" (Leipziger Volkszeitung), "a splendid pianist" (The New York Times), "a commanding artist" (The Los Angeles Times) and "the last Grande Dame of the piano" (Sueddeutsche Zeitung Muenchen). The German government honored her in 1994 with the Cross of the Order of Merit for her embodiment of the highest traditions of German culture.
In November 2005, Veronica Jochum celebrated her 40th anniversary on the piano faculty at New England Conservatory. Her legacy as an educator at NEC includes co-founding the weekly Fall Semester Piano Performance Seminar in 1988, bringing numerous prominent guests to perform and speak to students, and a list of noteworthy former students including composer Richard Danielpour, David Deveau, Cathy Fuller, Randall Hodgkinson, and David Watkins among many others. Jochum has presented a number of major works in NEC's Jordan Hall over the years, including the world premiere of Donald Harris's Balladen and the American premiere of Gunther Schuller's Piano Concerto No. 2, both of which were written for her. She was honored with a Bunting Institute fellowship from Harvard University in 1996, and in 2002, The Saj-nicole A. Joni and Marya Weinstock Endowed Scholarship was established in her honor on the occasion of her 35th anniversary at NEC.
Jochum has worked under the batons of such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Lukas Foss, Bernard Haitink, Gunther Schuller, and, of course, her father, and with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, L'Orchestre National de France, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw, among others.
In the chamber music setting, she has cooperated with musicians including Colin Carr, Natalia Gutman, Laurence Lesser, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt, Masuko Ushioda, as well as groups such as the Borromeo String Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic's Octet and Philharmonia Quartet, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston.
Her festival appearances in the United States include the Marlboro, Tanglewood, Spoleto, Sandpoint, Northwest Bach, and Eastern Music festivals, and she has appeared throughout Europe at the Montreux, Mecklenburg, Bregenz, Wallonie, and Salzburg Mozart festivals among others. Her performances and recordings are broadcast regularly on National Public Radio and in Europe.
The widow of the late architect and Harvard University professor Willo von Moltke, and sister-in-law to the famous Nazi resistance figures Freya von Moltke and the late Helmuth James von Moltke, Jochum is dedicated to performing music and supporting causes related to the promotion of peace, reconciliation, and liberation from oppression. She works with a variety of organizations, including the Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau, and recently performed selections from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time at the site of Stalag 8-A, the Nazi prison camp where it was written and premiered during the composer's captivity there. In 2005, she also performed Karl Amadeus Hartmann's piano sonata in memory of Dachau's liberation both in America and in Europe.
In October 2004, she presented the world premieres of two pieces written in her honor, John McDonald's Zwei Jochums, Op. 350 and MacArthur-winning composer Osvaldo Golijov's first-ever piece for solo piano, Levante: Fantasy on a Chorus from the "St. Mark Passion" in NEC's Jordan Hall. Other highlights of her performance schedule from the past few years include concerts at the Arts & Reconciliation Festival (Pretoria, South Africa) and the American Liszt Society Festival (Lincoln, Nebraska), as well as various concerts and masterclasses in Germany, Poland, and Switzerland. She also performed at Boston's Symphony Hall as part of the celebration of Steinway's 150th anniversary.
Most recently, she has given several concerts in honor of Mozart's 250th birthday, including performances of her program "Mozart: A Journey (Featuring the Music and Letters of W.A. Mozart)" with new translations of letters from Mozart, his friends and family by noted German scholar Robert Spaethling. She has also performed Mozart sonatas for piano and violin with Joseph Silverstein and other Mozart-related events here and abroad. In 2006, she performed a program honoring of the 150th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death that also includes the composer's own writings.
Although her repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary, she is also associated with composers Ferruccio Busoni, Robert and Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms, thanks to her pioneering recordings and the creative themes of her innovative "commentary concerts," which integrate informed discourse with live performance. Jochum has recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Laurel, CRI, GM Recordings, Golden Crest, and Tahra labels, and has recorded the complete music of Clara Schumann for the Swiss label Tudor. Her recently reissued 1988 recording (Tudor 788) of three Clara Schumann pieces led International Record Review's Calum MacDonald to write: "...she dispatches them very capably indeed. The interpretations are affectionate and characterful, nicely shaped."
M.M. (equivalent) with highest honors, Concert Artist Diploma, Hochschule für Musik, Munich. Piano with Edwin Fischer, Josef Benvenuti (Conservatoire de Paris), Rudolf Serkin. Former artist-in-residence and board of advisors, Eastern Music Festival; former faculty of Tanglewood Music Center, Settlement School of Philadelphia, Radcliffe Institute. Fellow, Bunting Institute of Harvard University, 1996-97.
 Alexander Korsantia
Pianist Alexander Korsantia has won great critical acclaim for his versatility, power and the unique sincerity of his playing. He can be heard performing in many of the world's foremost concert halls collaborating with renowned artists such as Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Jarvi, Gianandrea Noseda, Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Temirkanov, Vadim Repin, the Jerusalem Quartet and Sakari Oramo, among others.
Korsantia has performed as soloist with orchestras throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Recent engagements have included a televised performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 at the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg; performances at the Stresa Festival in Italy under the baton of Yuri Bashmet; in the Newport, Tanglewood, Vancouver, Gilmore festivals; with the symphony orchestras of Louisville, Brazil, Bogota, Jerusalem and the City of Birmingham, the Georgian State Orchestra, the Kirov Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and others. He has also participated in a United States recital tour with renowned violinist Vadim Repin.
Recent performance highlights include Prokofiev's Third Concerto and Mozart's B-Flat Major Concerto with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and with Boston Pro Arte Orchestra, Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto with RAI Orchestra, Turin, Dvorak's Concerto with Jerusalem Symphony and Oslo Philharmonic and Stravinsky Concerto with UK Youth Orchestra, as well as Israel Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Pacific Symphony Orchestra in LA, Elgin Symphony in Chicago, and Louisville Symphony Orchestras, giving performances in such a concert halls as Verdi Auditorium in Milan, and Santa Cecilia Auditorium in Rome.
As a very important part of his schedule, Korsantia appears frequently in his homeland of Georgia in concerts, on television and radio. In 2003, Georgian National TV released a full-length documentary about him, and in 2004, he performed at the inauguration of President Saakashvili. This season, Korsantia returns to Israel for the concerts with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Rafael de Burgos to perform Brahms's Second Concerto and Beethoven's "Emperor", and with Israel Chamber Orchestra for Beethoven's Fourth Concerto and E-flat Major Concerto, which Beethoven wrote when he was 14 years old. He is also appearing in concerts with Quebec City Symphony Orchestra, Georgian State Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic with Temirkanov, Kirov Orchestra with Noseda, recitals and chamber music concerts at the Barge Festival, New York, Boston, Tel-Aviv, Glasgow, Calgary, Toulouse and Noeburg and Nice among others.
An award-winning pianist, Alexander Korsantia received first prize and the gold medal of the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition, and first prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition. In 1999, to show appreciation for his efforts and contributions to the arts in Georgia, Korsantia was awarded with one of the most prestigious national award, The Medal of Honor, bestowed on him by then-Georgian President, Eduard Shevardnadze.
Tbilisi Special School of Music. Performance Diploma, Postgraduate Diploma, Georgian State Conservatory. M.M., Indiana University/South Bend. Studies with Svetlana Korsantia, Tengiz Amiredjibi, and Alexander Toradze. Former faculty of Indiana University/South Bend and University of British Columbia.
 Victor Rosenbaum
Pianist Victor Rosenbaum, former chair of the NEC piano department for more than ten years, has performed widely as soloist and chamber music performer in the United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Russia, in such prestigious halls as Alice Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has collaborated with such artists as Leonard Rose, Arnold Steinhardt, Robert Mann, and the Cleveland and Brentano String Quartets, among others. Festival appearances have included Tanglewood, Rockport, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, Kfar Blum (Israel) and Musicorda, where he is on the faculty. He has been soloist with the Indianapolis and Atlanta symphonies and the Boston Pops. Also an accomplished composer and conductor, Rosenbaum gives masterclasses and lectures on pedagogy issues and interpretive analysis worldwide. His highly praised recording of Schubert is on Bridge Records.
B.A., cum laude, Brandeis University; M.F.A., Princeton University. Piano with Leonard Shure, Rosina Lhevinne; theory and composition with Martin Boykan, Edward T. Cone, Earl Kim, Roger Sessions. Former faculty of Eastman School of Music and Brandeis University. Former chair of piano at the Eastern Music Festival. Former Director/President of the Longy School of Music.
 Russell Sherman
Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, Piano
As a Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at NEC, pianist Russell Sherman offers his insights to students through masterclasses, performance seminars, studio classes, and coachings.
Sherman's studies with Edward Steuermann place him in the grand Busoni/Liszt tradition, and Franz Liszt is one of the core repertoire composers with whom he is associated as a teacher and as a concert and recording artist. In 2008 Sherman released a DVD of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes that captured a live performance from New York’s Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts.
Sherman is the first American to record both Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas and the five piano concertos. His GM release The Beethoven Piano Concertos: Live at Monadnock features the all-star Monadnock Festival Orchestra.
Russell Sherman made his debut at Town Hall at age 15 and has been acclaimed as a soloist with many major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BSO, the Chicago Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has presented recitals throughout the U.S., Europe, South America, and the former Soviet Union.
Sherman's 1996 book of short essays on piano playing and allied activities, Piano Pieces, is perennially in print in the U.S. and has been published in Korean translation.
B.A., Columbia College (N.Y.). Piano with Edward Steuermann; composition with Erich Itor Kahn. Recordings on Advent, Sine Qua Non, Vanguard, Pro Arte, Albany, GM.
 Vivian Hornik Weilerstein
Piano; Collaborative Piano; Chamber Music; NEC’s Weilerstein Trio, piano trio-in-residence; Professional Piano Trio Training Program
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the world and is a frequent collaborator with many of today's most eminent artists and ensembles. She has appeared as a soloist with the Kansas City Symphony and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale di Torino, and has toured throughout Europe and Japan. She has been featured in More magazine, and on the "Jane Pauley Show" in stories about professional mother/daughter teams.
Weilerstein is an active member of the highly acclaimed Weilerstein Trio, which is in residence at the New England Conservatory. Highlights of current and past seasons include concerts at Lincoln Center in New York City and at prominent venues in Washington, D.C., Cleveland, St. Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston. They gave their London debut in spring '04 at the Royal Academy of Music. The trio's new and highly acclaimed CD, featured on NPR's "All Things Considered", was released in January '06 featuring music of Dvorak on the Koch label.
Critics and audiences have welcomed Weilerstein's performances as part of the Weilerstein Duo, with violinist Donald Weilerstein. Among their many recitals across the country, the duo has performed at Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Their discography includes the complete works of Ernest Bloch for violin and piano and the sonatas of Janácek, Dohnanyi, and Enescu for Arabesque Records and the complete Schumann sonatas for Azica Records. Fanfare declared the Bloch recordings a "must" on the journal's annual "Want List," and American Record Guide lauded both the Bloch and Janácek recordings. In 2006, the Weilersteins marked the occasion of their 30-year performing and recording career with recitals and the reissue of their Arabesque CDs. In addition to the duo and trio recordings, Weilerstein has also recorded for the EMI Debut Series.
Weilerstein has performed at the major American music festivals, including the Marlboro, Aspen, Chamber Music West, Yellow Barn, Norfolk, Sarasota, Roundtop, and La Jolla festivals and the Perlman Chamber Music Program. She has been a guest artist at Kneisal Hall, the Young Musicians Festival in Israel, the Daniel Days in Holland, and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. She also taught and performed in Shanghai, China as part of the Morningside Music Bridge and in Caracas, Venezuela as part of El Sistema. This summer she will be a guest artist in a chamber music residency at the Music Academy of the West.
Weilerstein is the director of the Professional Piano Trio Training Program at the New England Conservatory, where she also serves on the piano and chamber music faculties. She is also on the chamber music faculty of the Juilliard School. She is in demand for master classes and residencies. She was formerly a faculty member of the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Meng-Chieh Liu
A recipient of the 2002 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Meng-Chieh Liu joins New England Conservatory's piano studio faculty with the 2014/2015 academic year. Liu first made headlines in 1993 as a 21-year-old student at the Curtis Institute of Music, when he substituted for André Watts at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia with three hours' notice. The concert earned high acclaim from critics and audience alike and was followed by a number of widely praised performances, including a recital at the Kennedy Center and a concert on the Philadelphia All-Star Series.
A dedicated chamber musician, as well as a solo artist, Liu has collaborated with musicians in North America, Europe, and Asia, in addition to working with artists in other disciplines, including dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and his White Oak Dance Project.
Liu received the 2002 Philadelphia Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award and first prizes in the Stravinsky, Asia Pacific Piano, and Mieczyslaw Munz competitions.
B.M., The Curtis Institute of Music. Studies with Jorge Bolet, Eleanor Sokoloff, and Claude Frank. Also faculty of Roosevelt University and the Curtis Institute.
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