Professor of Piano
tcaramia@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274-1524
Tony Caramia is Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music, where he is Director of Piano Pedagogy Studies and Coordinator of the Class Piano Program. In May 2003, he was a guest on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz” on NPR. In May 2004, he served as a judge, along with Kenny Barron and Hilton Ruiz, at the 6th American Jazz Piano Competition for the American Pianists Association, and as adjudicator in the Crescendo Music Awards from 2005-2008. In September of 2007, he was privileged to participate in the dedication concert on the new “Sorel” Steinway at SUNY Fredonia, in honor of his former teacher, Miss Claudette Sorel.
Mr. Caramia is featured in the Yamaha Clavinova on Campus series. He is a Contributing Editor for Clavier Companion Magazine and on the Editorial Committee of American Music Teacher. His latest solo piano compositions — Suite Dreams and Jazz Moods — have been published by the Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, for whom he is also a Keyboard Clinician.
He has conducted numerous workshops in jazz piano for teachers at MTNA National and State Conventions; the International Association for Jazz Educators (IAJE) Teacher Training Institutes; the National Piano Teachers Institute, and the International Workshops. He has lectured and performed at the European Piano Teachers Association International Conference in London (1991), the first Australian Piano Pedagogy Conference in Adelaide (1993), and the Institute of Registered Music Teachers National Conference in New Zealand (1996). In 2005 he returned to Adelaide, Australia, to perform and lecture at the 7th Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference; and was invited to perform at the International Stride Summit in Switzerland.
2006 saw the release of his solo jazz piano CD, called Tribute, which features the music of Ellington, McPartland, Brubeck, as well as original compositions. Tribute is available on www.cdbaby.com.
A strong advocate of theme recitals — he spoke at the CFMTA-MTNA Collaborative Conference in Toronto, Canada on the topic: The Art of Modern Recital Programming — he has presented multi-media tributes to composers Harold Arlen and Richard Rodgers, and the extraordinary pianist, Cy Walter. He was a featured performer at the prestigious Rochester International Jazz Festival, and the 2007 and 2009 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Chicago.
Douglas Humpherys
Professor of Piano Chair, Piano Department
dhumpherys@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274-1521
Douglas Humpherys was the Gold Medalist at the inaugural Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. Since then, his performance career has taken him across Asia, Europe, and North America. During recent years, he has performed solo concerts in many of the major cities of Asia, including Beijing, Cheng-Du, Chonqing, Dalian, Guanzhou, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tainan, Taipei, Tokyo, Wuhan, Xiamen, and Xian. In Europe, he has concertized in the cities of Berlin, Dublin, Hamburg, Novgorod, Prague, and Venice, with additional concert engagements in Germany, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, and Serbia. He has presented concerts throughout the United States and Canada, and in the summer of 2008 he will travel to Buenos Aires to perform, teach and adjudicate for Teachers del Norte-Pianists del Sur, a project sponsored in part by the United States Embassy in Argentina.
In high demand as a teacher, he has taught literally hundreds of master classes at universities, conservatories, music academies, and festivals throughout the world. In addition, he has presented lectures to the European Piano Teachers’ Association, the Music Teachers’ National Association, the World Conference on Piano Pedagogy, and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.
A frequent adjudicator, he has served on the jury of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition eleven times, and has also adjudicated the Rachmaninoff International Young Artists’ Piano Competition, the Chinese 2005 National Competition in Beijing, the PTNA National Piano Competition in Tokyo, the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and the Bösendorfer International Piano Competition. His experience in this regard led him to create and direct the Eastman Young Artists’ International Piano Competition, which is held biennially in Rochester, New York.
Mr. Humpherys completed graduate degrees at the Juilliard School (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where he is currently a professor of piano and chair of the piano department. In recent years, he completed appointments as Visiting Professor of Piano at the University of Michigan and at Yonsei University in Korea. He has traveled to the Czech Republic three times as a faculty member of the South Bohemia Summer Music Festival. During the summer of 2007 he taught at the Chinese-American International Piano Institute, associated with the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Cheng-Du, China. He has recorded a wide variety of repertoire on compact disc, and has been featured in live broadcasts of performances on affiliates of PBS Television and National Public Radio.
Vincent Lenti
Lecturer in Piano
vlenti@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274-1594
BM, MA, Eastman; additional studies, Teachers College, Columbia University. Various professional memberships including 15-year term as treasurer of New York State Music Teachers Association. Recipient, NYSMTA 25th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Service (1986), NYSMTA Citation (1992), Jack L. Frank Award (1998) for outstanding leadership at Eastman, and Eisenhart Award (2002) for excellence in teaching at Eastman. Recipient of the University's Hutchison Medal for distinguished public service (2010). Board of Trustees, St. Bernard's Seminary (1978-81); Board of Trustees, St. Bernard's Institute (1981-83). Board member, Young Audiences of Rochester (1982-83) and Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (1996-2000). Coordinator of Eastman Piano Teachers Workshops for ten years. Lectures for various piano teacher groups, including appearances for NYSMTA and Music Teachers National Association. Research, lectures, publications on Rochester's musical history. Research, lectures, publications on church music topics including articles in journals such as Sacred Music, Pastoral Music, The American Organist, The Hymn, Studia Liturgica, and Worship. Author of For the Enrichment of Community Life: George Eastman and the Founding of the Eastman School of Music (2005). Director of Eastman's Community Education Division (1970-96), Senior Advisor to the Director on Liturgical Music (1996-2000), Administrator of the Piano Department (1998-2001). Faculty member, Eastman (1963-).
Professor of Piano
rpenneys@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274-1526
Artist's Diploma, Indiana University (1972). Studied with Gyorgy Sebok and Menahem Pressler; earlier study with Aube Tzerko and Rosina Lhevinne; composition with Leonard Stein. Founding member, New Arts Trio (1974-). Winner, Naumburg Chamber Music Award (1980, 1982). Winner, unprecedented Special Critics' Prize, Seventh International Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw (1965); Most Outstanding Musician Prize, Vianna Da Motta International Piano Competition, Portugal (1970); Top Prize, Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition (1975). USIA State Department tours, 1970, 1985, 1987. New York City debut, Tully Hall, 1972; other NYC appearances at 92nd St. "Y", Merken Hall, Carnegie Hall; Library of Congress (1972-). Between 20-40 recitals and master classes annually in the U.S., South America, Europe, East Asia, New Zealand, Australia, Canada. Special Sound/Color recitals (1993-). Toured as soloist with Milwaukee Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic; appearances with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Redlands Symphony, Connecticut Symphony and Eastman orchestras. Recent keynote speaker and guest artist at music, and music and medicine conventions (1995-). More than 30 recent collaborations and performances at summer festivals that include: International Music Institute, Santander, Spain; Marlboro Music Festival; International Music Festival, England; Festival Tibor Varga, Switzerland; Shawnigan Festival of the Arts; Birch Creek Festival, WI; Sitka Festival, AL; Music Mountain Festival, CT; Woodstock Festival, NY; Vermont Mozart Festival; Chautauqua Music Festival, NY; Tel Hai International Summer Festival, Israel; Roycroft Music Festival, NY. Co-founder/pianist: Chautauqua Society for Chamber Music (1985) and Academy Concerts, Rochester (1997). Approximately 16 dedications/commissions of new works for piano/piano trio (1980-). Adjudication includes Johana Hodges, Stravinsky, Rubinstein, Vianna Da Motta, and Fischoff competitions (1986-). Co-author with Dr. Ray Gottlieb, The Fundamentals of Flow in Learning Music (1993). Guest editor and author for Seminars in Neurology (1989). Articles for Clavier (1992, 1994). PBS special: The Piano and Its Moods (1989). Recordings for CBC Records, CBS-Sony, Centaur, Orion, Pantheon, and Society for Chamber Music, Rochester. Solo CDs: The Voice of the Piano (1993); The Complete Chopin Etudes (1994); All Brahms (2000); Recital Gems from Chautauqua (2002); Music of the Dance (2005); An Eastman Recital (2005); Rebecca Penneys and Steinway (2005). New Arts Trio CDs: Arensky Trios (1997); Beethoven's Arrangements for Piano Trio (1999); New Arts Trio in Recital at Chautauqua (2003). Current annual summer seminars: "Motion & Emotion" at Eastman (1985-); Chautauqua Piano (1985-); New Arts Trio Chamber Music, Chautauqua Institution (1976-). Faculty member, North Carolina School of the Arts (1972-74), Wisconsin Conservatory of Music (1974-81); artist faculty, Chautauqua Institution (1978-); Chautauqua Piano Dept. Chair (1985-); Eastman (1980-)
Thomas Schumacher (개인 렛슨선생 선택에서는 제외)
Professor Emeritus of Piano
tschumacher@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274-1529
BM, Manhattan School of Music; Diploma, MS, doctoral studies, Juilliard. Piano studies with Fisher Thompson, Robert Goldsand, Beveridge Webster, Adele Marcus. Chamber music studies with Bernard Greenhouse, Rachmael Weinstock, Raphael Hillyer, Raphael Bronstein, and Hans Letz. Awards include Harold Bauer Award (highest honors at Manhattan), Loeb Memorial Prize (highest honors at Juilliard). Prizewinner, Busoni International Piano Competition (1962), JUGG Award Competition (1963), resulting in New York Town Hall debut recital. Maryland Creative and Performing Arts Award (1984), Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Maryland (1991). Soloist with major orchestras including New York Philharmonic (1967 world premiere of David Diamond's Piano Concerto), Toronto Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony. Extensive tours of United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, and Far East. Recordings on Elan label. Active as recitalist, adjudicator, lecturer, and in master classes throughout United States, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, China, Taiwan, and Japan. Publications for Zen-on Music (Japan) include study guides on Brahms, Albeniz, Rachmaninoff (expected 2006) as well as a new critical edition of Albeniz's Iberia. Students have won prizes in major competitions. United States representative on the board of Concours de Musique de Canada (1988); national finals jury of the Canadian Music Competition (1999). Chairman, William Kapell International Piano Competition jury (1994). Faculty, University of Maryland (1969-95; chair of piano, 1993-95); associate artist faculty, Levine School of Music, Washington, DC (1987-95); Eastman (1995-); visiting professor, Shenyang Conservatory of Music (2002- ).
Associate Professor of Piano
eelisi@esm.rochester.edu
Enrico Elisi regularly performs to acclaim throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In Italy he has appeared in prestigious venues such as La Fenice Theatre, Venice; Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Bibbiena Theatre, Mantua; Pavarotti Opera House, Modena; Teatro Comunale and Sala Bossi, Bologna. Recent North American performances include recitals at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the New York Public Library. In Asia, he performed in South Korea (Seoul, Busan, Daegu), Taiwan (Taipei, Tainan), and China (Shanghai, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Fouzhou, Xinchang). Elisi has also given recitals in Germany (Hamburg, Bonn, Wolfsburg, Kiel, Heiligenhafen), Slovak Republic (Piešťany), Spain (Gijon, Candas), and Peru (Lima).
Over the last seasons, Elisi has appeared with the Florence Symphony, Italy; Orchestra Classica de Porto, Portugal; Bay Atlantic Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, Penn State Philharmonic, Penn’s Woods Orchestra, UNLV Chamber Orchestra and Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, USA. He debuted as soloist/conductor with the Green Valley Festival Chamber Orchestra (2007).
Among Elisi’s awards are top prizes in the Venice Competition and the Oporto International Competition—which led to a concerto broadcast for Portuguese national TV. After winning seven first prizes in national competitions in Italy and a number of other top prizes, Elisi received the La Gesse Foundation Fellowship and performed in Toulouse, France, and New York’s Weill Recital Hall.
Via Classica, a German radio station, offered a two-hour broadcast of Elisi’s live recital with an interview (2008). Additional radio broadcasts include Montebeni Classica FM (Italy), WCLV Cleveland, UNC, KCNV Nevada Public Radio, and KGCS (USA). He also appeared in a TV broadcast for WPSU.
An active chamber musician, Elisi has performed at the Taos and Ravinia Festivals, as well as other US venues and has given chamber recitals in China, Korea, France, and Peru. He collaborated with principal players from the Baltimore, Chicago, and American Symphony Orchestras.
As a champion of new music, Elisi has commissioned works from composers of many nationalities. He premiered Paul Chihara’s Images, at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall and has subsequently recorded it for Albany Records. His vision for contemporary music led to his founding and directing an international composition competition, Musica Domani Prize, (2010).
Elisi has been a jury member for the Tremplin International and the finals of the Concours de Musique du Canada, the Iowa Piano Competition, the Yale Gordon Competition (Peabody), NMTA, MSMTA, NVMTA, and VMTA.
In his native Italy, Elisi studied with Giuseppe Fricelli in Bologna and earned diplomas from the Conservatory of Florence (summa cum laude) and the world-renowned Incontri col Maestro International Piano Academy of Imola, where he worked extensively with Lazar Berman, Boris Petrushansky and Alexander Lonquich as well as Joaquín Achúcarro and Franco Scala. Elisi earned MM and DMA degrees with distinction as a student of Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University while serving as his assistant.
Barry Snyder
Professor of Piano
Barryfuoco@aol.com
(585) 274-1527
BM, MM, Performer's Certificate, Artist's Diploma, Eastman. Studied piano with Vladimir Sokoloff and CŽcile Genhart, accompanying with Brooks Smith. Member, Eastman Trio (1976-82), Meadowmount Trio (1989-90); triple prize winner, Van Cliburn International Competition (1966). Mu Phi Epsilon Musician of the Year (1987). Thirty-two solo, concerto, and chamber recordings on Bay City, Golden Crest, Mercury, Gasparo, Pro Arte, Pro Viva, Vox, Fun House, and Bridge Records. Collaborations with Herman Prey, Ani Kavafian, Asako Urushihara, Jan DeGaetani, Ronald Leonard, Steven Doane, Zvi Zeitlin, Bonita Boyd, Francis Tursi, Julius Berger, Sylvia Rosenberg, Paul Tobias, Charles Castleman, James VanDemark, Dong Suk Kang, Raphael Hillyer, Ornulf Borge Hansen, Joyce Castle, William Sharp, Ida Levin, Christoph Heckle, Martin Chalenfour, Charles Treger, Michael Webster, Nellie Skolnikova, Oleh Krysa, and with the Cleveland, Curtis, Purcell, and Composer's quartets. Performed and given master classes in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, China, Australia, Europe, Poland, Russia, and South America. Performed in festivals including Seattle, Aspen, Schwetzingen (Germany), Takefu (Japan), Vienna Summer Festival, Bechyne (Czech Republic), and Shenyang International (China). Soloist with Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, National, Montreal, Singapore, Krakow Radio/TV, Nagoya, and Japan Philharmonic Orchestras. Premiered works by Syd Hodkinson, Verne Reynolds, Toshio Hosokawa, David Liptak, Carter Pann, Alec Wilder, and John LaMontaine. Listed in the book The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the United States. Awarded the Diapason D'or for recordings of the complete cello and piano works by Fauré with Steven Doane. Recipient, Edward Peck Curtis Award for Teaching Excellence (1975). Faculty member, Georgia State University (1968-70), Eastman (1970-).
Nelita True
Professor of Piano
ntrue@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274-1520
Since Nelita True made her debut at age seventeen with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall and her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall, her career has taken her to the major cities of Western and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Iceland, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Canada, and to Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as to all fifty states in America. She was a visiting professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, performing and conducting master classes and has been in the People's Republic of China more than 20 times for recitals and master classes. She has played recitals on French national television and on Australian national radio. Her most recent recital in Boston was cited as one of the "Ten Best Classical Performances of the Year." She will perform and give classes in India next fall.
Ms. True has been a jury member for the China International Piano Competition (Beijing), the Queen Sonja International Piano Competition (Oslo), the National piano Competition in Brazil, the Horowitz Competition (Kiev), the Concours de Musique in Canada, the PTNA (Tokyo), the Lev Vlassenko Competition in Australia, and the Gina Bachauer, New Orleans, Hilton Head, and William Kapell International Piano Competitions in the U.S.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan as a student of Helen Titus, Ms. True went on to Juilliard to study with Sascha Gorodnitzki, and then earned the DMA with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory. In Paris, she studied with Nadia Boulanger on a Fulbright grant. Formerly Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, Ms. True is currently Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music. Many of her students have won top prizes at national and international competitions, including an unprecedented five First Prizes in national MTNA competitions. Ms. True was awarded the Certificate of Merit by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching at Eastman, the 2002 Achievement Award from the Music Teachers’ National Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate Teaching from the University of Rochester, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Keyboard Pedagogy Conference (USA).
S and H Productions of Kansas City produced a series of four videotapes, "Nelita True at Eastman," featuring her performances, lectures, and teaching. These videos are currently being seen on five continents. She has been the subject of feature articles in Clavier, Piano Today, The European Piano Teachers' Journal, and was the subject of the cover story of Keyboard Companion. An interview with Ms. True appears in the latest edition of James Bastien's "How to Teach Piano Successfully," along with interviews with the legendary Rosina Lhevinne and Adele Marcus. Ms. True has been invited to record over 100 works for Advance, Mark, Educo, and Academy Records.
"Nelita True's recital...was an artistic and popular triumph."
— The Washington Post
"True is an extraordinary pianist and exemplary musician...many a lyric soprano would covet the way (she) can turn a phrase."
— The Boston Globe
"Listening to Miss True was a memorable experience. Rarely have I heard anything so sublimely poetic."
