Diana Dumlavwalla
Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy
Academic Area:
Music Education, Keyboard
Room Number:
306B KMU
Phone: 850-644-4299
Email: ddumlavwalla@fsu.edu
Canadian pianist Diana Dumlavwalla is Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Florida State University. Previously, Diana taught at Western University where she developed the faculty’s inaugural doctoral piano pedagogy course. Additionally, she was an instructor at the University of Toronto, University of Windsor, Wilfrid Laurier University, the Beckett School in Kitchener and was also the director of the Children’s Piano Pedagogy Program at the University of Toronto. She also serves as a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s College of Examiners and adjudicates at local, regional and provincial festivals. She is an active member of MTNA, ORMTA, the College Music Society and the Association of Canadian Women Composers.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Diana has performed in North America, Europe and Australia. Her performing interests also extend to new music. She has presented lecture recitals and papers at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Phoenix), National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (Chicago), John Weinzweig Symposium (Toronto), Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference (Queensland) and the London International Piano Symposium (U.K.).
Diana completed the Doctor of Musical Arts Performance degree at the University of Toronto studying piano with James Parker and piano pedagogy with Midori Koga. She received her Master of Music (Piano Performance) at the Royal College of Music in London, Honours Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance and Voice) at Wilfrid Laurier University and an Associate diploma from the Royal Conservatory. She has studied with many other fine pedagogues including Agnes Olsheski, Virginia Blaha, Heather Taves, Yonty Solomon, and Logan Skelton.
Anne Garee
Program Director, Piano Technology
Academic Area:
Piano Technology
Room Number:
KMU 101
Phone: 850-645-7873
Email: agaree@fsu.edu
Anne Garee, Program Director for Piano Technology, came to Florida State University as a piano technician in 1983 and joined the faculty in 2004. Along with her concert tuning and restoration duties, Ms. Garee has enjoyed a 29 year teaching career in the College of Music offering a series of piano technology courses for pianists and piano technicians. She is an active clinician in the U.S. with yearly invitations to present at conventions throughout the country. Her international teaching experiences have included technical courses for pianists and technicians in Costa Rica as part of the University’s FloRica Program, an invitation by the Carter Center in Atlanta to formulate a Piano Technology course for teachers of the blind in mainland China, and most recently presentations in Denmark, Canada, and New Zealand. Thanks to a strong Early Music Program at The Florida State University, she has enjoyed working with harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos and square grands and their historical temperaments and tuning systems.
She designed and implemented the Piano Technology track within the Master of Arts degree program in the College of Music at FSU. This program is the first of its kind anywhere and affords graduate students the unusually rich experience of working with students and faculty in a comprehensive school of music. Past graduates of the program are now employed in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
Ms. Garee holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and completed a three year apprenticeship program for the Certificate in Piano Technology from the Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is a Registered Piano Technician with the Piano Technicians Guild. Anne has additional training from Steinway and Yamaha working with concert technicians and digital acoustics instructors.
Joel Hastings
Assistant Professor of Piano
Academic Area:
Performance (Keyboard)
Room Number:
KMU 319A
Email: Jhastings2@fsu.edu
Assistant Professor of Piano Joel Hastings was the winner of the 8th International Web Concert Hall Competition and the International Bach Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. As a Steinway Artist he performs solo recitals and concertos across Canada and the United States. Currently he is premiering a set of solo piano works dedicated to him by American composer Carter Pann. To date, he has recorded four CDs, including live performances of Frederic Chopin's 24 Études and Franz Liszt's song and operatic transcriptions. His recordings have been selected for Canadian critic's awards and have been featured on radio broadcasts in Canada and the US. Reviewers have described his playing as passionate, mesmerizing, hypnotic, and transcendental.
Hastings was awarded the gold medal for his ARCT Royal Conservatory diploma in Canada. His piano studies continued with Nina Lelchuk, Dickran Atamian and Sergei Babayan, and he completed his doctorate at the University of Michigan with Logan Skelton and Louis Nagel. His teachers were, respectively, students of Yakov Flier, Jorge Bolet, Mikhail Pletnev, Arthur Balsam and Rosina Lhevinne. Prior to joining the faculty at FSU in 2011, Hastings taught piano at the University of Windsor, Ontario, and Eastern Michigan University. His students have been successful in state and national competitions.
David Kalhous
Assistant Professor of Piano
Academic Area:
Performance (Keyboard)
Room Number:
KMU 316D
Email:
DKalhous@fsu.edu
David Kalhous is increasingly gaining recognition and critical acclaim in the United States and Europe for his wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous programming spanning more than three centuries. He has appeared as a soloist with Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Prague Philharmonia, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic, and Chamber Philharmonia Pardubice. As a recitalist and a chamber musician, he performed at the Prague Spring Festival, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, Czech Radio's Studio Live Rising Stars Series. In New York City, he appears at Bargemusic, Symphony Center, and Spectrum; in Chicago, at PianoForte Foundation and Constellation. Kalhous regularly performs, lectures, and teaches masterclasses at leading American, European, and Israeli universities and conservatories.
He has recorded for Czech Radio and Television, and has written, produced, and hosted programs devoted to piano music for Prague’s Classic FM Radio.
David Kalhous’ interest in new music has resulted in collaboration with many composers who have dedicated works to him. He regularly performs with Fonema Consort in Chicago and Konvergence in Prague. He gave the debut performance of Ligeti's piano Études and Feldman's For Bunita Marcus in Prague, and is preparing a CD of eight newly commissioned works for piano.
David Kalhous studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jaroslav Čermák. He subsequently attended Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Rubin Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University, and Yale University, and studied with Paul Badura Skoda, Emil Leichner, Victor Derevianko, David Northington, and Peter Frankl. He also worked with Jerome Lowenthal at the Music Academy of the West. David Kalhous holds a DMA from Northwestern University, where he worked with Ursula Oppens. He previously taught at Texas Tech University School of Music.
Read Gainsford
Associate Professor of Piano
850-644-4491
rgainsford@fsu.edu
A native of New Zealand, Read Gainsford began full-time music study with top piano teachers, Janetta MacStay and Bryan Sayer, before receiving a grant from the Woolf Fisher Trust and the top prize in the Television New Zealand Young Musician of the Year. Gainsford then relocated to London, where he studied privately with Brigitte Wild, a protégée of Claudio Arrau, before winning a place in the Advanced Solo Studies course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Joan Havill, graduating with the prestigious Concert Recital Diploma (premier prix).
Read Gainsford has performed widely in the USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as solo recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. He has made successful solo debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and has performed in many other venues, including the John F. Kennedy Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Centre, Fairfield Halls, Birmingham Town Hall and St-Martin-in-the-Fields. He has recorded for the Amoris label, BBC Radio Three, Radio New Zealand’s Concert Programme, and has broadcast on national television in New Zealand, the UK and Yugoslavia.
Gainsford moved to the United States in 1992 to enter the doctoral program at Indiana University, where he worked with Karen Shaw and Leonard Hokanson. Since that time he has been guest artist for the American Music Teachers Association and has also given numerous recitals, concerto performances and master-classes. He has appeared at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival and the Music Festival of the Hamptons, spent several summers at the Heifetz International Music Institute, is a member of the contemporary music group Ensemble X, and the Garth Newel Chamber Players. Gainsford has also enjoyed working with such musicians as Jacques Zoon, William Vermuelen, Roberto Diaz, Eddie vanOosthuyse and Luis Rossi. Formerly on the faculty of Ithaca College, where he received the college-wide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2004, Gainsford began as Associate Professor of Piano at Florida State University in 2005.
Deloise Lima
Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano
Academic Area:
Performance (Keyboard)
Room Number:
KMU 316E
Phone: 850-644-5432
Email: dlima@fsu.edu
DELOISE CHAGAS LIMA, collaborative pianist, was born in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. She began piano study at the age of nine and at age eleven she gave her solo debut at the School of Music and Fine Arts in Parana, Brazil, where she later received her Bachelors Degree in Piano, Organ, and Music Education, obtaining a gold medal as the most outstanding student during the course of her degree. Following her graduation she studied English at Newbold College in England while completing a Performance Certificate in piano from Trinity College of Music. Dr. Lima is also an Associate of the Royal College of Music in organ performance. She received the Master of Music degree in piano performance and literature at the University of Notre Dame, and the Doctor of Music degree in Piano Accompanying from the Florida State University.
Dr. Lima has participated in master classes with Jacques Klein, Michael Young, Ernst Ulrich von Kameke, Pierre Cochereau, Alexander Toradze, and Martin Katz, among others. In Brazil, Dr. Lima was on the faculty of the Escola de Musica e Belas Artes do Parana where she taught accompanying and coached chamber music for nearly twenty years. A sought-after accompanist and chamber musician, she has performed extensively throughout Brazil with many nationally recognized singers and instrumentalists. She was also the pianist of the Minas Gerais Symphony for two seasons, and was a soloist with that orchestra and the Curitiba Chamber Orchestra. Her performances as an accompanist have taken her to Europe, the United States, and South America. Deloise Lima was named Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the College of Music of Florida State University in 2005.
Heidi Louise Williams
Assistant Professor of Piano
850-644-5218
hlwilliams@fsu.edu
Heidi Louise Williams, Assistant Professor of Piano, joined The Florida State University piano faculty in 2007. She has appeared in solo and chamber music performances across the U.S. and internationally, winning numerous prizes. Her 2004 New York debut at Lincoln Center received highest critical acclaim, leading to a return engagement at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2006. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with many outstanding American and international artists. She is actively involved in the promotion of new music and has worked with distinguished composers including Chen Yi, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Augusta Read Thomas, and many others. Williams has recorded concerto, solo, and chamber music for the Naxos and Albany Records labels. She completed her Bachelors, Masters, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with renowned pianist Ann Schein and coached chamber music with Samuel Sanders, Earl Carlyss, Stephen Kates, and Robert McDonald.
