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John Perry
Piano Department
jperry@colburnschool.edu
213-621-4751
John Perry, distinguished artist and teacher, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Eastman School of Music and was a student of Cecile Genhart. During those summers, he worked with the eminent Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued studies in Europe for four years where he worked with Wladyslav Kedra, Polish concert artist and professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, and Carlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of the piano department at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome.
Mr. Perry has won numerous awards including the highest prizes in both the Busoni and Viotti international piano competitions in Italy and special honors at the Marguerite Long International Competition in Paris. Since then he has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America to great critical acclaim. Also a respected chamber musician, Mr. Perry has collaborated with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world.
He also enjoys an international reputation as a teacher, presenting master classes throughout the world. He often is a jury member at some of the most prestigious international piano competitions. His students have been prize winners in most major competitions and include two first-prize winners in the Rubinstein, four first-prize winners in the Music Teacher’s National Association national competition, and first-prize winners in the Naumburg National Chopin competition, Beethoven Foundation competition, the Federated Music Clubs, and the YKA, AMSC, the Washington Friday Morning Musical, and YMF competitions, and finalists in the Chopin International in Warsaw, the Van Cliburn, the Queen Elisabeth, Leeds, Dublin, Busoni, Viotti, Leipzig Bach Competition, world competition in Cincinnatti and the Three Rivers Competition.
 Ory Shihor
Co-Chair, Piano Department
oshihor@colburnschool.edu (Primary)
213-621-1031
According to New York Newsday, Ory Shihor is "the first important Israeli pianist to come along in years." He has established himself as one of the leading young pianists in America today with highly successful debuts in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh. Mr. Shihor is a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, a prize winner at the 9th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and was the first prize winner at the 1999 Washington International Piano Competition. Mr. Shihor's recent performances include recitals at the Kennedy Center and at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., as well as at the Chautauqua Music Festival.
In addition to his successful New York City debut at the 92nd Street "Y", Mr. Shihor's other New York appearances include recitals for the Frick Collection and Merkin Hall. His orchestral engagements have included the Haifa Symphony Orchestra in Israel and in America, the Austin Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Tallahassee Symphony, Missouri Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and the Memphis Chamber Orchestra among others. One of the more extended engagements with orchestras have included an invitation by the Liege Philharmonic for Mr. Shihor to appear as the featured guest soloist on their IS-concert North American tour, under Music Director Pierre Bartholomee.
Mr. Shihor's past appearances have included the Ravinia "Rising Star" Series, the Newport Music Festival and the Cape May Music Festival, in addition to recitals across North America. His international concert debuts have included appearances in Germany, Spain and the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
Born in Tel Aviv, Mr. Shihor was a recipient of the America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships from the age of 12. He came to the United States at the age 15 to work with Jorge Bolet at the Curtis Institute of Music, and later studied at the Juilliard School in New York, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Gina Bachauer Prize. His other teachers have included John Perry and Russell Sherman. Mr. Shihor is currently residing in Los Angeles and is the co-chair of the piano department at the Colburn School of Performing Arts.
Fabio Bidini
Title(s): Carol Grigor Piano Chair School Email: fbidini@colburnschool.edu (Primary)
School Phone: 213-621-4751 Biography Italian pianist Fabio Bidini is one of this generation’s top-flight pianists and pedagogues. His appearances have included performances with The London Symphony Orchestra at The Barbican, The Philharmonia Orchestra of London at Royal Festival Hall, the New World Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra Prague at the Rudolphinum, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra at Liszt Academy Hall. He has collaborated with conductors including Michael Tilson Thomas, Carlos Prieto, Max Valdes, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Ivan Fisher, Jesus Lopez Cobos, JoAnn Falletta, Zoltan Kocsis, Michael Christie, and Gianandrea Noseda. The 2014-15 season finds Fabio Bidini appearing in North America with various U.S. orchestras including the Buffalo Philharmonic (for the sixth time), the Hawaii Symphony, and the Reading Symphony. In the 2013-14 season, he performed with the Phoenix Symphony (Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2), Wichita Falls Symphony (Khachaturian Concerto), and the Paducah Symphony (Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major).
Bidini has repeatedly performed at the prestigious festivals of Europe, including the Tuscan Sun Festival Cortona/Napa, Festival Radio France Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Stern Grove Festival, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival/ Brescia, and Bergamo, Festival dei due Mondi.
A native of Arezzo, Italy, Bidini began his piano studies at the age of five. He graduated magna cum laude from the Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and studied composition at the Florence Conservatory. He has been awarded first prize in eleven of Italy’s most prestigious national piano competitions and has been the recipient of the top prizes awarded in eight international competitions - Terni, Köln, Busoni 1988 and 1992, Pretoria, Marsala, London and the Van Cliburn Fort Worth. He made his North American debut in 1993 with the Atlanta Symphony.
Bidini’s discography comprises thirteen CDs recorded under the labels BMG, Classichord, Musikstrasse, EPR and True Sounds.
Bidini is currently piano professor and inaugural holder of the Carol Grigor Piano Chair at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. He has previously served on the faculties of Univerität der Künste and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, both in Berlin.
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