Professor of Piano
korevaar@colorado.edu
303-492-6256
David Korevaar’s mastery of the piano is joined with a large and varied repertoire, and enhanced by his work with living composers and his own experience writing music. He successfully balances an active performing career as a soloist and chamber musician with teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is Associate Professor of Piano.
Korevaar’s 2007 London debut at Wigmore Hall was acclaimed in Musical Opinion as “a fascinating recital . . . This was playing of a high standard, reminiscent of the art of Robert Casadesus and Samson François.” Since his Town Hall debut in 1985, he has performed at major venues in New York including Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, and Merkin Concert Hall. He has performed across the United States from Boston, New York and Washington, DC to Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Dallas and San Diego, and he plays frequently in his home state of Colorado with orchestras, in chamber ensembles and in solo recitals. He performs and teaches annually in Japan, and has performed in Europe, Australia, Korea, and Abu Dhabi. In March 2008, Korevaar spent two weeks performing and teaching in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan as a Cultural Envoy sponsored by the US State Department.
Currently a member of the Boulder Public Library’s ensemble-in-residence, the Boulder Piano Quartet, and Dallas-based Clavier Trio, Korevaar has performed as guest artist with the Takács, Manhattan and Colorado Quartets, among other groups. He was a founding member of the Young Concert Artists Award-winning piano and wind ensemble Hexagon, with which he toured for many years.
David Korevaar’s newest CD releases are Bach’s Goldberg Variations (Ivory Classics) and French Music from the Ricardo Viñes Collection (Koch), reviewed in International Piano as “A triumph! David Korevaar has uncovered some truly wonderful music…all played with the greatest sensitivity and distinction, and the result is an exemplary recording that deserves a place in any serious collection.” Also released in 2007 was a recording of Beethoven’s Sonatas op. 31, no. 1, op. 101, and op. 111 (Ivory). Other solo releases include Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin, Gaspard de la nuit, and Miroirs (MSR Classics) and Brahms Variations for Piano (Ivory Classics). His broad musical interests and extensive repertoire are reflected in recordings ranging from the two books of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (Musicians Showcase) to the piano music of Lowell Liebermann, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Koch Classics). He has recorded the romantic virtuoso compositions of Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi (Ivory Classics), and transcriptions (his own and Liszt’s) of orchestral music by Franz Liszt, including the rarely heard 2nd Mephisto Waltz (Helicon).
Other releases include a CD by the Prometheus Quartet featuring music by 19th-Century Frenchmen Saint-Saëns and d’Indy (Centaur), an album of Lowell Liebermann’s chamber music with flutist Alexa Still (Koch Classics), the complete sonatas for brass instruments by Paul Hindemith (Kleos), and the Brahms Violin Sonatas with violinist Anastasia Khitruk (Titanic).
David Korevaar’s interest in new music is reflected in his programming. In addition to his continuing association with the music of Lowell Liebermann, Korevaar has performed and recorded music by composers including Paul Schoenfield, Mike Barnett, Aaron Jay Kernis, George Rochberg, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Stephen Jaffe, Scott Eyerly and Libby Larson. He gave the New York premiere of three of Harrison Birtwistle’s Harrison’s Clocks as part of the Juilliard School’s Piano Century series in 2000. He is a frequent participant in the University of Colorado’s Pendulum new music series. For an idea of what he looks for in new music, read Korevaar’s essay in the October 2003 New Music Box.
Korevaar was honored along with co-author and webmaster Tim Smith of Northern Arizona University for a web-based exploration of the Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier, featuring analytical essays and animations by Professor Smith, performance-related essays by Korevaar, and Korevaar’s performances of the music. The site received top honors both in music and overall, including the Editor’s Choice Award from MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Professor Smith has recently mounted a new website with analyses and historical essays around Bach’s Goldberg Variations also featuring Korevaar’s recording.
In 2007, Dr. Korevaar received the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Colorado in honor of his work with the Ricardo Viñes Piano Music Collection at the university. Other honors include top prizes from the University of Maryland William Kapell International Piano Competition (1988) and the Peabody-Mason Music Foundation (1985), as well as a special prize for his performance of French music from the Robert Casadesus Competition (1989). In May 2000, he received the Richard French award from the Juilliard School, honoring his doctoral document on Ravel’s Miroirs.
David Korevaar began his piano studies at age six in San Diego with Sherman Storr, and at age 13 he became a student of the great American virtuoso Earl Wild. By age 20 he had earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where he continued his studies with Earl Wild and studied composition with David Diamond. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School with Abbey Simon. Another important mentor and teacher was the French pianist Paul Doguereau, who had been a student of Egon Petri, and who had studied the music of Fauré and Debussy with Roger-Ducasse (a pupil of Fauré’s), and the music of Ravel with the composer.
Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Colorado in 2000, Korevaar taught for many years at the Westport School of Music in Connecticut, where he was Artist-Teacher. He now lives in Boulder, CO with his family. Korevaar is a Kawai artist
Chair, Professor of Piano
cooperstock@colorado.edu
303-492-3300
Heralded as a “technically impeccable and musically profound” pianist, Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout five continents and in most of the fifty states.
Winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Andrew Cooperstock has performed at New York’s Alice Tully, Merkin, and Weill concert halls, and at the United Nations. He has been featured in recitals and concerto appearances at the Chautauqua, Brevard, and Round Top international music festivals, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and in such global centers as Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Baltimore, London, Hamburg, Geneva, the Hague, Riga, Canberra, Lima, Kiev, Seoul, and Sapporo. Next season he will make his African debut.
An advocate for new music, Andrew Cooperstock has premiered works by such American composers as Lowell Liebermann and Aaron Copland. He has also commissioned works by Eric Stern, Robert Starer, and Dan Welcher.
Sought after as a chamber musician, Cooperstock has performed with the Takács Quartet, the Ying Quartet, and the Colorado Chamber Players, and he is a founding member of Trio Contraste, which specializes in commissioning and performing contemporary music for piano, violin, and clarinet.
With violinist William Terwilliger, as Opus Two, Cooperstock has recorded the complete works for piano and violin by Copland. The award-winning Opus Two has been internationally recognized for its “divine phrases, impelling rhythm, elastic ensemble and stunning sounds,” as well as its commitment to expanding the violin – piano duo repertoire. The duo has appeared throughout North and South America, Europe, and Australia, and it made its Asian debut in 2006 with performances across China, Korea, Japan, and the Russian Far East. With cellist Andres Diaz, Opus Two has also recorded chamber music by Lowell Liebermann (Albany Records) and Paul Schoenfield (Azica Records). Opus Two’s next recording, music of Leonard Bernstein (Naxos) features new arrangements by Broadway legend Eric Stern and collaborations with Broadway actress-singer Marin Mazzie.
Andrew Cooperstock’s media credits include performances on National Public Radio, WFMT Chicago, WQXR New York, KUT Austin, and on Minnesota Public Radio, Radio France, and the Australian and British Broadcasting Corporations.
He has served as juror for the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the Music Teachers National Association national competitions, and the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Competition, among others, and he has presented master classes widely, from Beijing to Nice to Vladivostok.
A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cincinnati and Peabody Conservatories, Dr. Cooperstock studied with Abbey Simon, David Bar-Illan, and Walter Hautzig, as well as with collaborative pianist Samuel Sanders. He is currently a senior member of the keyboard faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chair of the piano department at Rocky Ridge Music Center.
Daniel Sher
Professor of Piano
daniel.sher@colorado.edu
303-492-7505
Daniel Sher, Dean and Professor of Piano at the College of Music at CU-Boulder since 1993, received his bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, the master’s degree from the Juilliard School, and the EdD from the Teachers College of Columbia University. While on the faculty at the School of Music at Louisiana State University, he was the pianist with the Festival Arts Trio, which performed in recital in all of the southeastern states and in South America. Twice his students were finalists in the MTNA Collegiate Artists Competition and a piano trio he coached won the MTNA Chamber Music Competition. Dr. Sher also performed in chamber music and solo recitals in the US, Europe, Mexico, and Central America, and in duo piano recitals with his wife, Boyce Reid Sher throughout the US, including a debut recital at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Dr. Sher served as Dean of the School of Music at LSU from 1984-1993. He is a past president of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national honor society for music, and currently serves on that group’s Board of Regents. He is currently serving as President of the National Association of Schools of Music.
Jennifer Hayghe
Associate Professor of Piano
jennifer.hayghe@Colorado.EDU
Imig Music Building
Mailing Address:
301 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Jennifer Hayghe has performed in solo recitals and made orchestral appearances throughout the world, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Hayghe received her bachelors, masters degrees and doctorate degree in piano performance from The Juilliard School, where she was the last student of the legendary artist-teacher Adele Marcus. Hayghe won every award possible for a Juilliard pianist to receive, including the William Petschek Debut Award, resulting in her New York City recital debut at Alice Tully Hall.
Hayghe's orchestral appearances include performances on numerous series with the National Symphony Orchestra, recent concerts with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Viriginia Symphony Orchestra and the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and performances with various orchestras in the United States and abroad. She has performed in major chamber music series, including the Museum of Modern Art's "Summergarden" series and Bargemusic in New York. She has also performed as a chamber musician in the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and has taught chamber music throughout the United States and Central America. In addition, Hayghe has been frequently featured in radio broadcasts, including National Public Radio's Performance Today series, and on live broadcasts on the major classical radio stations of Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City. Her first solo recording, Paintings From the Piano, featuring works by Debussy, Schumann and Mussorgksy, was recently released by Centaur Records.
Formerly an Associate Professor of Piano at Ithaca College, Hayghe has served as a featured artist at music teachers’ conventions in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Virginia. Most recently, Hayghe has given master classes at the Manhattan School of Music and as part of the New York University Piano Master Class Series. She has performed and taught as a soloist and chamber musician at universities and colleges throughout the country and was previously the Barineau Endowed Professor of Piano and Keyboard Area Coordinator at Louisiana State University. She lives with her husband, Robert McGaha, and son William in Erie, Colorado.
Margaret McDonald
Associate Professor Collaborative Piano
Margaret.mcdonald@colorado.edu
Imig Music Building C198
303-735-1360
Mailing Address:
301 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Pianist Margaret McDonald, a native of Minnesota, is an Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder. She joined the College of Music keyboard faculty in the fall of 2004. She helped to develop the College’s new graduate degree program in Collaborative Piano and directed the undergraduate collaborative curriculum. Ms. McDonald enjoys a very active performing career regionally and nationally as a recital partner with many distinguished artists including the Takacs Quartet, Kathleen Winkler, Zuill Bailey, Wendy Warner, Carol Wincenc, Christina Jennings, Tadeu Coelho, George Pope, David Shifrin, Ben Kamins, William VerMeulen, Philip Myers, Steven Mead, and Velvet Brown.
She received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota where she was a student of Lydia Artymiw. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of California – Santa Barbara, where she worked with Anne Epperson. Ms. McDonald attended the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara, CA) in the summers of 2000 through 2002 as a fellowship student in both vocal and instrumental collaboration. She received a fellowship to study at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 2003 where she worked closely with Dawn Upshaw, Osvaldo Golijov, and Robert Spano.
She has been a staff accompanist at the Meadowmount School for Strings in New York and is an official accompanist at the Music Teachers National Association competition and the National Flute Association annual convention. Ms. McDonald spends her summers as a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara where she holds the Thomson Family Chair in Collaborative Piano.
Alexandra Nguyen
Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano
Alexandra.nguyen@colorado.edu
Imig Music Building
303-492-6512
Mailing Address:
301 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
A native of Montréal, Alexandra Nguyen maintains a diverse career as a collaborative pianist, teacher, and arts administrator. She is an accomplished pianist who has appeared throughout the United States and Canada, including performances at the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York, NY), BargeMusic (Brooklyn, NY), the Strings Music Festival (Steamboat Springs, CO), and the Societe Pro Musica Chamber Music Series (Montréal, Canada); recent performances include concerts with members of the Takács Quartet, baritone Patrick Mason as well as bassoonist Peter Kolkay, a long-standing collaboration. She has been an invited speaker at the National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meeting, the College Music Society Annual Conference, the Music Teachers National Association National Convention, and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.
As Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Nguyen co-directs the graduate programs in collaborative piano and coordinates accompanying services at the College of Music. She was formerly the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the Eastman School of Music, where she also held part-time faculty appointments in the piano and chamber music departments. Other prior appointments include Administrative Director of the Montréal Chamber Music Festival, Director of Career Services at the Eastman School, and piano faculty at the David Hochstein Memorial School for Music and Dance.
Dr. Nguyen is a member of the Collaborative Committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and served on the steering committee for the Music Teachers National Association’s Year of Collaborative Music. She was the founder and director of the summer institute, Plays Well With Others, at the Eastman School of Music, where she has been affiliated with the Eastman International Young Artists Piano Competition for over a decade. She is on the faculty of The Quartet Program West, and served as répétiteur for the 2012 Opera Orvietoprogram in Orvieto, Italy.
Alexandra Nguyen completed her graduate degrees in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music under the guidance of Jean Barr at the Eastman School of Music where she was awarded the first Performer’s Certificate in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music. She has studied with pedagogues such as Douglas Humpherys, Anne Epperson, Madeleine Bélanger and Suzanne Goyette, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University and a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec a Montréal.
Suyeon Kim
Lecturer, Collaborative Piano
Suyeon.Kim@Colorado.EDU
Imig Music Building N1B04
303-492-7468
Mailing Address:
301 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Korean pianist Suyeon Kim is a Lecturer in Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado, Boulder, joining the faculty in 2013. Dr. Kim is an experienced and versatile collaborator, with significant instrumental and vocal accompanying experience. She has earned her B.M. in Piano Performance and an M.M. in Collaborative Piano in Korea, an additional M.M. in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music, and a D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from the University of Texas at Austin, studying with Kihoon Yang, Jean Barr, Anne Epperson and Jonathan Feldman.
Dr. Kim has performed for a wide variety of master clinicians, including Gil Shaham, Glenn Dicterow, Steven Doane, Emmanuel Pahud, Jeanne Baxtresser and Warren Jones, among many others. As soloist and collaborator, Dr. Kim has performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with violinist Jia Xu and cellist David Sedlin with the Greece (N.Y.) Symphony Orchestra in 2007, and Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals with the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008 with pianist Chorong Park.
Recent appearances have included New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Seoul’s King Sejong Hall, Youngsan Hall and Kumho Hall. Dr. Kim was also featured as collaborator on KMFA radio in Austin, Texas.
Previous fellowships and assistantships have included the Music Academy of the West (2011 and 2012), the University of Texas at Austin (2010 through 2013), and the Eastman School of Music (2007 through 2009). In addition to numerous residencies at music programs in South Korea, Dr. Kim has also supported performers at the 2012 Bassfest held in Austin, Texas, and at the Meadowmount School of Music, in Westport, N.Y. since 2013.
Hsiao-Ling Lin
Instructor, Collaborative Piano
hsiaoling.lin@colorado.edu
Imig Music Building N1B02
Mailing Address:
301 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Pianist Hsiao-Ling Lin, a native of Taiwan, joined the keyboard department faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder in fall of 2011. Ms. Lin enjoys an active performing career as a collaborative pianist throughout the world in such prestigious halls as the Weill Hall at Carnegie in New York and the Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow. Her performances have been broadcasted live over the radio, and she has collaborated with many distinguished artists including: Lynn Harrell, Matt Haimovitz, Kenneth Grant, Basil Reeve, and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and so on.
She has appeared at numerous festivals with fellowship and scholarship including: the Music Academy of the West, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Musicorda, and the International Festival-Institute at Round Top; She has been a staff pianist at Musicorda, the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Boston Conservatory, the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and Northwestern University. Since the summer of 2012, she has been invited by the Meadowmount School for Strings in New York to work as their staff pianist. Ms. Lin is near completion of her Doctor of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Collaborative Arts from Northwestern University where she works with Drs. James Giles and Elizabeth Buccheri; additionally, she holds Degrees from the New England Conservatory and DePaul University under the guidance of Victor Rosenbaum and Eteri Andjaparidze.
