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The 2008 Celebration of the Amateur Pianist
August 14-17, 2008
Colorado Springs, CO |
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SCHEDULE
Schedule is subject to minor changes.
Thursday, August 14
12:00PM – 5:00PM
Colorado College: Packard Hall, Cascade Ave. and Cache la Poudre
St.,
Registration, hall tryouts and practice opportunities
No activities planned for this evening
Friday, August 15
9:00AM – 11:30AM Packard Hall: tryouts and practice
opportunities
1:00PM – 3:00PM Seminar: Presenter, Dr. Fred Karpoff
3:30PM – 5:30PM Master Class: Presenter: Dr. Fred Karpoff
6:30PM – Reception in a private home (wine and heavy hors
d’oeuvres)
Saturday, August 16
10:00AM – 3:00PM Recital in the Carnegie Room of the Penrose
Public Library
Packard Hall will be open for practice opportunities during this time
as well.
7:00PM – 9:00 PM Recital: Dr. Fred Karpoff
A wine and cheese reception in the Worner Center (across from Packard
Hall) will immediately follow the recital.
Sunday, August 17
2:30PM – 5:00PM Recital: Four selected amateurs
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DR. FRED KARPOFF -
Master Class Presenter & Recitalist
Fred Karpoff has concertized as both soloist and collaborative pianist
throughout North America, Europe and Africa, including at the Franz
Liszt Hochschüle für Musik in Weimar, the Theatre d'Esch in
Luxembourg, the American Cultural Center in Brussels, the University
of Cape Coast in Ghana, the Bulawayo Academy of Music in Zimbabwe, the
National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and
Merkin Hall in New York City. He has performed at major music
festivals in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in recitals on public
radio stations throughout the United States and in collaborations with
performers such as the Cassatt Quartet, Larry Combs, Eric Ruske, and
members of the New World, Chicago, Tokyo, Ying, and Audubon String
Quartets and the Los Angeles Piano Quartet.
The Syracuse Herald-Journal has said, "In terms of musicality, Karpoff
is one of the most exciting pianists to watch and hear in the history
of the Skaneateles Festival. His involvement and intensity at the
piano are at once apparent, and his phrasing invariably superb.
Karpoff's interpretations consistently reveal not only a keen dramatic
sense of purpose, but also a deep understanding of a work's
architectural structure." A former Artistic Ambassador for the United
States Information Agency, he is a prize winner in the San Antonio,
Dublin, and 2005 Competition Internationale international piano
competitions. He has studied with Ann Schein, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and
Robert Weirich and holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the
Peabody Conservatory, where he was a frequent performer in the master
classes of Leon Fleisher. He has also worked with renowned artists
such as Jeffrey Kahane, Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Menahem
Pressler, and the late Karl-Ulrich Schnabel.
He has presented master classes and workshops at universities,
festivals, music teachers’ associations and conventions in fifteen
states. Formerly on the faculties of Peabody and the University of
Maryland at Baltimore County, Fred Karpoff is Associate Professor of
Piano and Ensemble Arts at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse
University, where he has served as Chair of the Keyboard Department
from 1992-2002, and co-Chair from 2005 .
Dr. Karpoff teaches undergraduate and graduate piano majors and
coaches vocal and instrumental chamber music. He teaches upper
division courses in Vocal and Instrumental Literature, as well as
Aspects of Repertoire Preparation, a class that incorporates current
research in learning temperaments, musical aesthetics, performance
psychology and optimal preparation for and execution of concert
performances. He has taught Advanced Keyboard Skills, Keyboard
Literature, and Piano Pedagogy, and has recently added seminars in
Vocal Coaching and Interdependent Piano Technique.
In addition to his critically acclaimed CD release, Heroic Tales:
Piano Music of Edward MacDowell, Renegade Classics has issued his live
Beethoven Trio performances with musicians at the Skaneateles
Festival. In January 2007, Fred Karpoff was invited to become a
Steinway Artist.
More information is available at his website,
www.fredkarpoff.com.
Changing Paradigms Seminar: Challenging Traditional Concepts of Piano
Technique with Interdependence.
Following a career-threatening injury nearly twenty years ago, Dr.
Karpoff began a holistic journey toward wellness that included work
with a Feldenkrais® practitioner and an overhaul of his piano
technique. Through personal examples and demonstrations, Dr. Karpoff
leads an interactive workshop that covers "interdependent" technique,
beginning with foundational alignment and basic movements, and moving
toward more advanced concepts, including scales, arpeggios, trills,
tremolos, and repeated chords. In the meantime, he calls upon
participants to acknowledge and question many of their longstanding
positions about how they play and listen, and offers ways for
immediately integrating this information into their practice and
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