FACULTY: PIANO

Edward Auer: Faculty, Indiana University – Jacobs School of Music. Mr. Auer has performed solo recitals and concerts in 30 countries, including the United States, Europe, Japan, Israel, and Australia. He 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 a juror in the Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Marguerite Long competitions, Professor Auer has recorded for RCA Japan, Toshiba EMI, Erato, Camerata, TownHall, and other labels. In residence for second three-week session.

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Peter Basquin: Faculty, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York; Member, Aeolian Chamber Players. Pianist Peter Basquin has performed throughout the United States, with appearances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, since winning the Montreal International Competition. His principal teachers were William Nelson at Carleton College and Dora Zaslavsky at the Manhattan School of Music. Appointed to the faculty of Hunter College, CUNY, where he is now Professor Emeritus, Peter has taught for more than thirty years. His orchestral appearances include solos with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic, the Hunter Symphony, and the Montreal, Quebec, and Boston symphonies. He has appeared with conductors Dennis Russell Davies, Paul Lustig Dunkel, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Gunther Schuller. Other artists with whom he has collaborated include Jaime Laredo, the Cassatt Quartet, Charles Neidich, the Jacques Thibaud Trio, Lewis Kaplan, Frederick Zlotkin and Nathaniel Rosen. Peter Basquin tours with the Aeolian Chamber Players, and was a featured artist at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He also holds the Francis Thorne piano chair of the American Composers Orchestra and is the co-author of Explorations in the Arts.  In residence for full six-week session.

Martin Canin: Faculty, The Juilliard School. Artist-in-residence, SUNY at Stony Brook. Frequent judge of national and international piano competitions. Performances as soloist and in chamber ensembles in Europe, the U.S., and Japan. Masterclasses throughout the U.S. and in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Contributing editor, Piano Quarterly Magazine. Editor of piano works for Lee Roberts Publications and Editions Salabert. In residence for full six-week session.

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Olivier Gardon: Faculty, Higher Academy of Paris CNR; Franco-Japanese Academy of Kyoto.  Originally from Nice, Olivier Gardon began studying piano at the age of 4 and has gone on to have a successful solo career playing with major orchestras and conductors worldwide.  He studied at the Academy of Nice and C.N.S.M. of Paris with Pierre Sancan and Jean Hubeau and later went on to study with Geza Anda, Lili Kraus and Georgy Sebok.  Winner, Grand Prix Marguerite Long 1973, Prix Reine Elisabeth (Bruxelles, 1975), Prix International Viotti (Vercelli), Prix International de Monza, de Sanigallia, Casella (Naples).  Appearances with  London Symphony Orchestra; Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg; Philharmonique Radio, France; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Sofia Philharmonic; and Prague Chamber Orchestra. Gardon regularly gives master classes worldwide Mozarteum, Salzburg;  Yonsir University, Seoul; The Toho School, Japan; Académie Internationale de Nice; Courchevel Academy, Kasama; and sits on the juries of many international competitions.    In residence of first three-week session. 

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Julian Martin: Piano faculty, The Juilliard School. 1975 winner of the Montevideo International Competition, and major prizewinner at Casadeus, Kapell and Bachauer competitions. Awarded the Jury Prize for Accompanying by The Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1982. Juror for many international competitions in North America, Colombia and Korea, and the awards panel Virtuosi Of The Year 2000 in St. Petersburg. An original member of the Gilmore Foundation's Selection Committee in Kalamazoo. Founder and Artistic director of Gijón International Piano Festival (Asturias, Spain). Guest Faculty at the Glenn Gould Professional School (Toronto) and the Conservatoire Tibor Varga (Switzerland). Guest faculty member at the Banff Centre (Alberta). Recent masterclasses in Great Britain, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Venezuela and Israel. In residence for first three-week session.

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Yong Hi Moon:Faculty, Peabody Conservatory. Top prize winner: National Korean Broadcasting Competition, Elena-Rombro Stepanow Competition, the Viotti International Competition, theVienna da Motta Competition and received the Chopin Prize from Geneva International Competition. Performs extensively throughout Asia, Europe and the US as a recitalist and with orchestras including the Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo, and Korean National symphony orchestras. Ms. Moon is in high demand as a guest master class teacher and adjudicator. Judged the Senigallia International Piano Competition, Gilmore International Piano Competition as well as numerous MTNA related competitions. Her discography includes a recording on the Music and Art label of Czech four-hand piano music that has received outstanding critical acclaim. A native of Korea, Ms. Moon studied at the Vienna Academy and completed her Artist Diploma degree at Indiana University. Teachers include Dieter Weber, Maria Curcio, Georgy Sebok, Leon Fleisher, Wilhelm Kempff and Fu Tsong. In residence for full six-week session.

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Constance Moore: Chamber music faculty, The Juilliard School Pre-CollegeDivision. Recent recitals at the National Gallery of Art, the Purcell Room in London, in Europe, and a West Coast tour. Former member, Louisville Trio, Cincinnati Chamber Soloists, and pianist, Louisville Orchestra, with whom Ms. Moore recorded a number of contemporary works. In residence for full six-week session.

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Emma Tahmiziàn: Performing Artist. First public appearance at age five, debut as a soloist with orchestra at thirteen. Her international career was launched at nineteen when she won the First Prize in the Robert Schumann International Competition in Germany and gave her Berlin Debut. Lauréate of the Van Cliburn, Leeds, Tchaikovsky, Montréal, Bach, Smetana International Competitions, winner of the Pro Musicis International Award, recipient of several grants from NYFA, Ms. Tahmiziàn has toured extensively in recital and concerto engagements throughout North America and Europe. Appearances with orchestra include performances with all the major orchestras of her native Bulgaria, the Moscow, St. Petersburg and Brooklyn Philharmonics, the East Berlin Radio Symphony, and The Prague Chamber Orchestra. She has premiered and recorded numerous new pieces, many of which written for or dedicated to her. Featured at MIDEM Classique, Cannes, with her recording of Beethoven's Sonatas Op. 31 No. 3 and Op. 111, as well as in live radio and television broadcasts on both continents, including the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania, the former Soviet Union, and in the US on WQXR and WNYC, New York, WGBH, Boston, and Maine NPR. Recordings for Koch International, Bridge Records, New World Records, Concord Classics, Premier and Balkanton . MM from the Juilliard School and the Bulgarian State Academy of Music. In residence for full six-week session.

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