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Faculty – Piano

Michael Adcock with piano
MICHAEL ADCOCK
Piano, Music Theory

D.M.A., M.M., Artist Diploma, the Peabody Institute of Music; B.M., Oberlin Conservatory.

Studies with Leon Fleisher, Ellen Mack, Julian Martin, Joseph Schwartz; adjunct faculty, the Peabody Institute; faculty, Musicorda Summer Festival; associate faculty, Sarasota Music Festival. Winner, Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize, first prize, Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, Washington International Piano Competition prize winner, finalist, Concert Artists Guild Competition; soloist with Baltimore and Richmond Symphonies, recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, La Gesse Festival, France, Phillips Collection, Embassy Series; chamber music at Kennedy Center, Corcoran Gallery. Performances with Denyce Graves, St. Petersburg String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, Jamie Buswell.

Andrist Audrey with piano
AUDREY ANDRIST
Piano

D.M.A., M.M., Juilliard School; B.M. University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada); studies with Herbert Stessin, William Moore.

First prize winner, Mozart International Competition, San Antonio International Competition, Eckhardt-Gramatté, and Juilliard Concerto Competitions; performances throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Europe, China, and Japan, including Alice Tully Hall in New York, Place des Arts in Montreal, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, and in D.C., including the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museums; member Stern/Andrist Duo, Strata trio, Verge Ensemble; over a dozen recordings. Faculty, University of Maryland-Baltimore County.

Shyueh Chao Cheng
SHYUEH CHAO CHENG (online only)
Piano

MM; BM, Piano Performance, University of Maryland

Recitalist, chamber musician, vocal accompanist in venues including Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Strathmore Mansion, Arts Club of Washington, F.Fitzgerald Theatre.  Studies in Germany, Taiwan, and the US with teachers including Bradford Gowen, Jungte Ma, Yi-Chun Lai, Neil Tilkens, Gregory Sioles. Additional piano studies with Pi-hsien Chen, Boris Slutsky, and chamber music studies with Rita Sloan.  Special studies and experience in teaching special needs children. Over ten years experience as a full-time piano teacher for students of all ages and levels of experience. Extensive experience in teaching to ABRSM standards of performance and theory.  Piano lessons are online only.

LYDIA FRUMKIN
Piano

Honors Diploma, Leningrad University.

Professor Emeritus of Piano, Oberlin Conservatory. Master classes and festivals in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, Mexico, Russia, and in the U.S. at University of Michigan, University of Toledo, Tulane University, among others. Concert, TV, and radio performances throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and in U.S. cities including New York (Merkin Hall, WMP Concert Hall), Cleveland (Severance Hall), Washington, D.C. (Phillips Gallery, Strathmore Hall, Corcoran Gallery, McCathran Hall), Chicago, Pittsburgh, New Orleans. Has collaborated with internationally-known performers, including members of the St. Petersburg String Quartet and Cleveland Orchestra Quartet.

Gowen Maribeth with piano
MARIBETH GOWEN
Piano

M.M., University of Alabama; B.M. and B.M.E., Emporia State University; post graduate study in chamber music and accompanying with Menahem Pressler and Guarneri Quartet members, solo piano with Nelita True.

First prize, National Winner MTNA Collegiate Artist Piano Competition; First Prize Baltimore Chamber Music Award. Solo appearances with Alabama Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Lake Placid Chamber Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Tucson Symphony and the University of Maryland Orchestra. Summer chamber music festivals include Picolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, Lake Placid Summer Chamber Festival, International Bellapais Music Festival in North Cyprus and the Kredi Arts Festival at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul; other performances include the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and Terrace Theater, the Barns at Wolf Trap, Constitution Hall, Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museums, the Cosmos Club, the German, Austrian, Australian, French, Finnish, and Turkish embassies, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Chautauqua Institute,Chicago Symphony Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie Recital Hall, appearances in Ismir, Istanbul and Yucatan, live radio recital in Rotterdam, Holland, soloist on public television’s “Debut” series. In addition to numerous chamber music collaborations, Ms. Gowen has appeared in duo piano performances with Bradford Gowen.

DIONNE LAUFMAN
Piano

B.A., Sarah Lawrence; further studies at Peabody Conservatory; pupil of Leon Fleisher (1966-73), Konrad Wolff and Frank Glazer. Chamber music studies with members of the Fine Arts Quartet, the New York Woodwind Quintet and pianist Frank Glazer.

Winner, 1975 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Performed throughout U.S., Europe, Canada. East Coast concert venues have included Carnegie Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Phillips Collection, Wolf Trap, Dumbarton Oaks Concert Series, Corcoran Gallery, 13 embassies (pianist in first American chamber group ever to perform in the Russian Embassy and Russian Ambassador’s Residence, 1992). Former pianist and co-director of Summer Serenades Chamber Music Festival, Strathmore Hall. Repertory member of the Washington Music Ensemble since 1987; participating member of Embassy Series since 1995; member of the National Chamber Ensemble since its inaugural season in 2007. Radio and TV broadcasts in U.S. and over Voice of America. Co-founder, Washington Conservatory, with Liova Kaplan, Miron Yampolsky and Diana Young.

BORA LEE
Piano

M.A., M.M., University of Cincinatti, College-Conservatory of Music; B.M., Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

Featured artist at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in NYC; Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Orford Arts Centre in Québec; Gateway Theatre in Vancouver; Baroque Recital Hall in Prague; Seoul Arts Center and KBS Hall in Seoul. First Prize, OMTA Piano Competition. Soloist, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, Cantate Chamber Orchestra, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. Outstanding teacher and soloist. Collaborative pianist, Aspen Music Festival and School, Great Mountain International Music Festival and School, Starling String Program in Cincinnati, Radford University.

Lee Jaewon
JAEWON LEE
Piano, Piano Department Chair

Artist Diploma, Cleveland Institute of Music; Professional Studies, New England Conservatory; Advanced Studies with Sergei Babayan; M.A. and B.A. (piano performance), Seoul National University.

Top Teacher Award for outstanding instruction and leadership from Steinway & Sons; Students won local and international competitions and performed at Carnegie Hall. Chair of Washington Music Teachers Association ConcertoFest; Former Faculty member, Cleveland Music School Settlement; Director/founder of CMSS Piano Camp; Prize winner, William Kurzban Award from Cleveland Institute. Winner of Seoul National University Concerto competition. Concerto performances with Cleveland Philharmonic, Lakeside Symphony, Suburban Symphony Orchestras; Chamber recitals with Cleveland Orchestra members. Solo recitals at Fortnightly Musical Club of Cleveland Concert series, Korean American Association of Greater Cleveland.

YEJIN LEE
Piano

B.M., Oberlin Conservatory; M.M. and D.M.A, the Peabody Institute of Music.

Ms. Lee’s achievements include First Prize in the MTNA piano competition, and prizewinner at the Dallas International Piano Competition in Dallas, Texas, and the Wideman International Piano Competition in Shreveport, Louisiana. She has performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, throughout the U.S. and Europe, and as a soloist with the Northwest Florida Symphony and Korean Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Lee has participated in the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria, the Gijón International Piano Festival in Gijón, Spain, and the Orford Music Festival in Montreal, Canada, among others.

Small Haskell
HASKELL SMALL
Piano, Music Theory, Composition

B.F.A. Carnegie-Mellon University; Studies at San Francisco Conservatory. Piano studies with Leon Fleisher, William Masselos, Harry Franklin and Jeanne Behrend; composition studies with Roland Leich and Vincent Persichetti.

Award winner, Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition. Featured in PBS special, “A Celebration of the Piano.” Recorded numerous CDs. Concerts in London, Paris, Berlin, Italy, Vienna, South America, Japan, China, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Spoleto Festival. Commissions by Phillips Collection, including Renoir’s Feast celebrating 2006 return of Renoir’s painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party. Other commissions from Washington Ballet, Three Rivers Piano Competition, Georgetown Symphony, Paul Hill Chorale. Winner, Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. Composer-in-Residence, Mt. Vernon Orchestra, 2002-03.

JEFFERY WATSON
Piano, Music Theory, Composition, Vocal Coaching

D.M.A., University of Maryland; M.M., Eastman School of Music; B.M., DePauw University.

Soloist, the Honduran National Symphony, the Pan American Symphony, the Rosario (Argentina) Chamber Orchestra, The Alexandria Symphony and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra with the Kirov Ballet. Pianist with internationally-acclaimed tango quintet, QuinTango, including performances with the Wichita Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes (Mexico), at Lincoln Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Buenos Aires, the Amalfi Coast Festival, and the International Tango Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In 2009, performed with soprano Susan Bender in Croatia for the International Conference of the College Music Society and was guest artist at the Fairbanks (Alaska) summer music festival. In March 2011, soloist and clinician at 3rd International Piano Festival in Lima, Peru. Toured Uruguay and Argentina with QuinTango, conducted Ravel’s opera L’Enfant et les Sortilèges at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, and performed with the WCM piano faculty at TEDMED conference that was simulcast to 80 countries around the world. Performances in Dutch Harbor, Alaska under auspices of the Aleutian Arts Council. Former faculty, George Washington University.

Chengcheng Yao
CHENGCHENG YAO
Piano

M.M.A., Yale School of Music; M.M., The Juilliard School; B.M. China Conservatory; (D.M.A 2023 anticipated), The Peabody Institute.

Studies with Jerome Lowenthal, Matti Raekallio, Peter Frankl, Hung-Kuan Chen, Leon Fleisher, Yong Hi Moon. Solo appearances in New York City, Hamburg, Berlin, Beijing, Salzburg, Vienna, and Toronto. Soloist with orchestras including the Peabody Symphony under the baton of Marin Alsop, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hebei Symphony Orchestra. Festival performances in the US, Italy, and Canada. First and special prize winner in 71st Steinway International Piano Competition, First prize in Sigma Alpha Iota Piano Concerto Competition and Harrison Winter Piano Competition, Silver Medal, 68th Wideman International Piano Competition. President, World Piano Teachers Association. (WPTA)

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