Evelyne Brancart (Professor )
ebrancar@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1918
Education
Diplome Superieur, Brussels Conservatory, 1978
Premier Prix, Brussels Conservatory, 1968
Biography
Evelyne Brancart received the Laureate de La Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Belgium) in 1971.
Professor Brancart studied with Eduardo del Pueyo, Maria Curcio, Menahem Pressler, and Leon Fleisher.
She is recipient of the Belgian Government Medal and prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth, Montreal, and Gina Bacchauer international competitions. Professor Brancart is a former faculty member of Eastman School of Music, University of New Mexico, Rice University, San Francisco Conservatory, and Aspen Music School.
She has performed solo recitals in New York, London, Brussels, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, and Moscow. She was a member of the Seraphim Trio (1986-90), and is a regular participant in chamber music festivals and series.
Professor Brancart has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Telefunken, Decca, Boston Records, Koch Discover International, and RIAX.
Edward Auer (Professor )
auer@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1809
Education
B.M., The Juilliard School, 1966
Biography
Edward Auer has performed solo recitals and concerts in 30 countries, including the United States, Europe, Japan, Israel, and Australia. Professor Auer has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Detroit, Atlanta, and Baltimore symphonies; NHK Tokyo; RIAS Orchestra Berlin; Orchestre National Paris; and many others.
A prize winner and later juror in the Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Marguerite Long competitions, Professor Auer has recorded for RCA Japan, Toshiba EMI, Erato, Camerata, TownHall, and other labels.
David Cartledge (Assistant Professor)
docartle@indiana.edu
(812) 855-9009
Education
D.M., Indiana University, 2003
M.M., Indiana University, 1993
B.M., Australian National University, 1992
Biography
David Cartlege has performed on three continents and throughout the United States.
He studied with Gy�rgy Sebok, B�la S�ki, Christopher Elton, and John Luxton, and is active as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
Professor Cartledge is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust Award and has been awarded grants from the Ian Potter and George Alexander Foundations. He teaches graduate-level courses in keyboard literature and piano literature.
Arnaldo Cohen (Professor )
arncohen@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1955
Education
F.R.N.C.M., Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 2000
M.M. in piano and violin, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1968
Biography
Arnaldo Cohen graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with an honors degree in both piano and violin, while studying for an engineering degree. He became a professional violinist in the Rio de Janeriro Opera House Orchestra but continued his piano studies with Jacques Klein, a disciple of William Kapell, and later with Bruno Seidlhofer and Dieter Weber. He was the first-prize winner of the 1972 Busoni International Piano Competition.
He has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Royal Philharmonic, and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, under the baton of leading conductors such as Kurt Masur, Yehudi Menuhin, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. He has also played numerous recitals all over the world. He has performed as a member of the Amadeus Piano Trio as well as with the Lindsay Quartet, Chilingirian Quartet, Orlando Quartet, and Vanbrugh Quartet. His recordings, for several labels, include works by Liszt, Brahms, Schumann, and Brazilian composers.
Professor Cohen is a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He took part in several juries of international piano competitions, including the Chopin and Busoni Competitions.
Luba Edlina-Dubinsky (Professor )
edlinadu@indiana.edu
(812) 855-5152
Education
Diploma with distinction, Moscow Conservatory, 1952
Biography
Luba Edlina-Dubinsky started playing piano at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine (then USSR). She made her first public appearance at the age of nine and by age seventeen she was accepted to the prestigious Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Upon the completion of her studies under the guidance of the renowned professor Yakov Flier, Mrs. Edlina-Dubinsky graduated with distinction.
As the spouse of Rostislav Dubisnky, a founding member of the legendary Borodin Quartet, Mrs. Edlina-Dubinsky devoted most of her creative endeavors to chamber music. For twenty years she was a constant partner to the Borodin Quartet.
In 1976 Mrs. Edlina-Dubinsky and her family emigrated to the West and settled in Holland. In 1977 the Dubinsky Duo and the Borodin Trio, consisting of the Dubinsky spouses and the cellist Yuli Turovsky, were formed. For the next twenty years, as member of both chamber groups, Mrs. Edlina-Dubinsky concertized extensively all over the world. She recorded virtually the complete piano trio repertoire and made a number of piano/violin and piano/cello duo recordings (including the complete Beethoven violin sonatas). Her solo recordings include, among others, the acclaimed Complete Intermezzi of Johannes Brahms and Complete Songs Without Words of Felix Mendelssohn. All and all, she recorded over 50 CDs, made exclusively for the Chandos Recoding label (UK).
From 1976 to 1981 Mrs. Dubinsky held a professorship at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands. Since 1981 she has been living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is Professor of Piano at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
Jean-Louis Haguenauer (Professor )
jehaguen@indiana.edu
(812) 855-9169
Education
Licence de Concerts, Paris �cole Normale de Musique, 1973
Premier Prix de Virtuosit� avec distinction, Geneva Conservatory, 1977
Biography
Jean-Louis Haguenauer made his concert debuts in Salle Gaveau in Paris and Wigmore Hall in London.
Professor Haguenauer has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Musicatreize, Dubrovnik Festival Orchestra, among others. His festival appearances include La Roque d'Anth�ron, Radio-France Montpellier, Toulouse Jacobins, Festival d'Ile de France, and Library of Congress. He has toured the United States, Europe, Canada and China, and is now the pianist of The American Chamber Players.
Professor Haguenauer has recorded for Harmonia-Mundi, Meridian, Ligia Digital, Verany, Cybelia, and Timpani. Forthcoming are series of solo recordings with L'Empreinte Digitale.
Jean-Louis Haguenauer studied with Nadia Boulanger, Henri Dutilleux, Jean Fassina, Louis Hiltbrand and Germaine Mounier. For ten years he was Professor of Piano at the Strasbourg Conservatory in France.
Emile Naoumoff (Associate Professor)
enaoumof@indiana.edu
(812) 855-8218
Education
Premier Prix, Paris Conservatory, 1978
Biography
Emile Naoumoff was awarded the Paris Academy prize for compostion and first prize at the Ecole Normale, Paris.
He was the last student of Nadia Boulanger and studied with Pierre Sancan, Nikita Magaloff, Igor Markevitch, and Henri Dutilleux.
Professor Naoumoff's concert tours have taken him throughout the United States, Japan, and South America, and he has participated in international chamber music festivals and numerous concerts.
Professor Naoumoff has recorded for EMI, Sony, Phillips, Naxos, Wergo, and Orfeo.
Shigeo Neriki (Professor )
neriki@indiana.edu
(812) 855-3446
Education
Artist Diploma, Indiana University, 1986
Biography
He has toured the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, and Japan with cellist Janos Starker. Professor Neriki won the Southwest Pianist Foundation Competition; was awarded first prize and received a special award for commissioned work at the Three Rivers Piano Competition in Pittsburgh; was named best accompanist at the Fifth International Tchaikovsky Competition; and is the recipient of the Suntory Award.
He has recorded for Columbia, Toshiba, EMI, Delos, BMG, Apollon, and Meister
Menahem Pressler (Distinguished Professor )
pressler@indiana.edu
(812) 855-1234
Biography
Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the North Carolina School of the Arts.
He has received four Grammy Award nominations and a lifetime achievement award from Gramophone magazine. Professor Pressler was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the German Critics "Ehrenurkunde" award (in recognition of 40 years of setting the standard by which chamber music is measured); received the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal of Merit for lifetime achievement in music; won the Record of the Year Award in England; was honored as part of the Ensemble of the Year by Musical America in 1997; won the German Recording Award; and was first prize winner of the Debussy Competition. He served as juror at the Van Cliburn and Queen Elisabeth competitions.
He has taught master classes in Germany, France, Canada, and Argentina, and is internationally active as a soloist and chamber musician. Professor Pressler has performed solo concerts with the Chicago Symphony and other orchestras.
He is co-founder and continuing member of the Beaux Arts Trio and has recorded almost the entire chamber literature with piano for Philips.
Karen Shaw (Professor)
shaw@indiana.edu
(812) 855-3852
Education
D.M., Indiana University, 1974
M.M., Indiana University, 1965
B.M., Indiana University, 1962
Biography
An active performer, teacher, conductor of master classes and lecturer for more than three decades, Professor Shaw also won the Concert Artists Guild Award, and had debuts in New York, London, and Berlin.
She has performed and taught master classes throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East, and was recognized as a specialist in romantic literature following series of concerts at Carnegie Hall.
Among her numerous pupils are distinguished performers and successful teachers at every level. She is director of the Silvermine Artists Series in Norwalk.
Karen Taylor (Assistant Professor )
karmtayl@indiana.edu
(812) 855-4142
Education
D.M., Indiana University, 1988
Biography
Karen Taylor is founder/director of the IU Young Pianists Program and the Summer Piano Academy, and is coordinator of piano pedagogy studies.
She has performed solo recitals in the United States and Europe, and taught more than 75 master classes, lectures, and workshops across the Midwest.
Her many teaching honors and awards include a Teacher of the Year citation (1988) by the IMTA, a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, and grants from the Ecole Normale de Musique and the French government for study in Paris.
She has acted as consultant to writers and filmmakers on aspects of French pianism, and has had articles published in the Journal of the American Liszt Society, Keyboard Companion, among others.
Andre Watts (Professor )
andwatts@indiana.edu
(812) 855-5105
Education
Diploma with distinction, Moscow Conservatory, 1952
Biography
One of the world's most celebrated pianists, Andr� Watts joined the IU School of Music faculty in 2004. Professor Watts continues to give numerous recitals and performs with the world's major orchestras and conductors, while making regular visits to the major summer music festivals, including Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saratoga, the Mann Music Center, Mostly Mozart, and the Hollywood Bowl.
Watts entered the music scene in 1963 at the age of 16 when Leonard Bernstein chose him to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic in one of its Young People's Concerts, which was broadcast nationwide on CBS-TV. Two weeks later, Bernstein asked him to substitute at the last minute for an ailing Glenn Gould to perform music by Franz Liszt with the Philharmonic, thus launching Watts' career in storybook fashion.
Professor Watts has also made frequent television appearances, performing with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His 1976 New York recital, which aired on the program Live from Lincoln Center, was the first full-length recital broadcast in the history of television, and his performance at the 38th Casals Festival in Puerto Rico was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cultural Programming.
A much-honored artist, Professor Watts was selected in 1988 to receive the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the top individual honors for an American classical musician. At age 26, he was the youngest person ever to receive an honorary doctorate from Yale University, and he has received numerous such honors from many of the nation's most respected conservatories. In 1984, the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University honored Watts with its Distinguished Alumni Award.
Edmund Battersby
Professor of Music (Piano)
edmundlb@indiana.edu
(812) 856-2288
East Studio Building, JS303
Education
M.M., Master of Music, The Juilliard School, 1977
B.M., Bachelor of Music, The Juilliard School, 1977
Biography
Throughout the course of an international career as pianist, orchestral soloist, chamber player, and teacher, Edmund Battersby has earned the highest praise from his audiences, critics, and colleagues alike.
American Record Guide claimed that his landmark recordings of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, on modern and period instruments, put him "in the company of Brendel, Serkin, Schnabel, and Pollini."
His many CDs for Musical Heritage Society, Naxos, Koch, and others over the years have been noted impressively, the 1992 Grammy short list for Goyescas of Granados among them.
Battersby's digital re-release of Mendelssohn's complete Songs Without Words, on the Schoodic Sound label, was a "Sleeper of the Year" for WNCN Magazine in 1982, the artery for what was then the premier classical radio station of New York City.
The 2012 Schoodic Sound digital re-release of his iconic Musical Heritage Society recording, The Early Romantic Piano, performed on a Rodney Regier replica of an 1834 instrument by Conrad Graf, was warmly received by Fanfare Magazine: "This is simply a beautiful recording that should be heard by everyone." (Dubins) Schoodic Sound has recently released his Musical Heritage Society recording Franz Schubert: Shorter Works for Piano and his newly recorded complete Iberia by Isaac Albeniz.
Battersby gained the admiration of Olivier Messiaen, George Crumb, George Rochberg, Elliot Schwartz, and William Bolcom in live and recorded performances directed by the composers.
He has played recitals worldwide, most notably in London, New York City, and Washington, D.C., and has performed with conductors such as McGegan, Schwarz, and Schuller, with orchestras ranging from the Indianapolis Symphony to Pittsburgh Symphony.
A frequent guest at the U.S. Library of Congress, Battersby has performed on its series with the Vermeer Quartet and elsewhere with the Tokyo Quartet and the Orion Quartet.
Festivals featuring him in solo or ensemble capacity include Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Seattle, and La Jolla.
He has given master classes at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, the Hochschule fur Musik in Leipzig, and Princeton, Rutgers, and Duke Universities, as well as at Indiana University, where he has been a member of the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music since 1995.
During summer 2013, he gave master classes at the Euro Arts Festival in Halle, Germany, and in Dublin, Ireland, for the inaugural season of the new Dublin International Piano Festival.
Battersby is the artistic director of Harbor Music, the Artur Balsam Chamber Ensemble Classes for Piano and Strings, supported by the Indiana University Foundation since 1999.
Chih-Yi Chen
Senior Lecturer in Music (Piano)
chychen@indiana.edu
(812) 855-5256
East Studio Building, JS230
Education
M.M., Master of Music, Indiana University, 1999
B.M., Bachelor of Music, Indiana University, 1997
Biography
Taiwanese pianist Chih-Yi Chen's versatile qualities as a collaborative pianist, chamber musician, and soloist have distinguished her as a rarity amongst pianists.
Her work with the talented young violinists of the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi, directed by Mimi Zweig, garnered her recognition as a specialist in violin repertoire, and she has since become a sought-after collaborative pianist.
Among the numerous musicians with whom she has collaborated are Jaime Laredo, Liviu Prunaru, Barnabás Kelemen, Augustin Hadelich, Atar Arad, Sharon Robinson, Peter Stumpf, Howard Klug, William Ludwig, and the Rubens Quartet.
Recent solo appearances include Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Stephen Paulus's piano concerto with the IU Wind Ensemble.
Chen received her Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Music degrees at Indiana University, where her teachers were Lev Vlasenko and Luba Edlina-Dubinsky.
She is on the faculty of the IU Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches piano accompanying. She is also a faculty member of the IU Summer String Academy.
Jacob Coleman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music (Woodwinds/Collaborative Piano)
jacocole@indiana.edu
Education
D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014
M. M. in Collaborative Piano, University of Oregon, 2009
B.M. in Piano Performance, University of Georgia, 2007
Biography
Jacob Coleman earned his bachelor’s in piano performance from the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music with Richard Zimdars, his master’s in collaborative piano from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance with David Riley, and his D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano at The University of Texas at Austin with Anne Epperson.
While at the University of Georgia, Coleman was a Presser Scholar and recipient of the UGA Liszt Award. As a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon, he was named Outstanding Graduate Collaborative Pianist for 2009. In 2012, he was a collaborative piano fellow at the Music Academy of the West, where he worked with Jonathan Feldman.
Coleman has participated in master classes with artists such as Gil Shaham, Ransom Wilson, Frank Cohen, Lynn Harrell, Angela Hewitt, Donald McInnes, and Warren Jones. He has served as staff at the Astoria Music Festival and faculty at the University of Georgia Summer Music Workshop.
He spends his summers in upstate New York as staff pianist at the esteemed Meadowmount School of Music.
Sung-Mi Im
Adjunct Lecturer in Music (Chamber Music Coaching)
imsung@indiana.edu
(812) 856-4693
East Studio Building, JS325
Education
M.M., Master of Music, The Boston University School of Music, 1990
B.M., Bachelor of Music, Seoul National University, 1988
Biography
A native of Korea, Sung-Mi Im began her piano studies at the age of three with her mother. After making a successful debut with Daegu Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine, she continued her studies at Seoul National University and Boston University, where she received a Dean's Scholarship and a master's degree in performance.
She has won numerous competitions, such as the Dong-A Newspaper Competition, Ye-Um Chamber Music Competition in Korea, and the Kahn Award in Boston. Tony Han and Kwi-Hyun Kim were among her teachers.
Appearing in many international festivals, she has won praises from audiences and critics alike from Kusatsu Music Festival, Moon Beach Festival in Japan, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Sitka Music Festival in Alaska, Bargemusic in New York, Tucson Chamber Music Festival and Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, among others.
Solo and chamber music recitals in London, Montreal, Dallas, Seoul and New York; appearances with orchestras in Korea and with the Jupiter Symphony in New York City were met with much acclaim.
She has taught piano at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, and is currently teaching chamber music at Indiana University.
Lee Phillips
Adjunct Lecturer in Music (Collaborative Piano)
leephil@indiana.edu
(812) 856-4693
East Studio Building, JS325
Education
M.M., Master of Music, Louisiana State University
B.M., Bachelor of Music, Louisiana State University
Biography
Lee Phillips, a New Orleans native, studied at Louisiana State University with Daniel Sher, Michael Gurt, and Panayis Lyras, earning a B.M. and an M.M. in piano performance. Following extensive doctoral work, he specialized for some years with Eric Heidsieck in Paris and John Ogdon in London.
As winner of many regional and national competitions in the U.S. and international chamber music competitions in France, Italy, and Sicily, he has appeared regularly as recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestra. His first international appearances came in 1982 on tour in South America, which included a series of concerts in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, and since then, he has performed frequently throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, China, and Great Britain.
Phillips has appeared at international festivals such as Cheltenham, England, Sofia Musical Weeks, Roundtop, Texas, Plovdiv Chamber Music (Bulgaria), Pontedeume, Spain, and Trento, Italy, and frequently gives concerts, master classes, and courses in conservatories in Granada, Murcia and Cadiz, Spain, and Shanghai and Guangzhou, China.
He was formerly on the piano faculties of the University of the Ozarks, U.C.A. (Arkansas) and Louisiana St. University and is co-founder of the Heber Springs Chamber Music Festival with his Kapelle Trio, formed in 1991.
Recordings include live performances from Sofia of the trio (for Gega New, formerly Balkanton) and the complete Bach works for cello with Felice Magendanz (Trimble Productions). Soon to be published are archival live performances and the three Brahms sonatas with favored partner, violinist Kevork Mardirossian.
