Piano

MICHAEL ADCOCK
Piano & Music Theory

D.M.A., M.M., Artist Diploma, Peabody Conservatory; B.M., Oberlin Conservatory.

Studies with Leon Fleisher, Ellen Mack, Julian Martin, Joseph Schwartz; adjunct faculty, Peabody Conservatory; 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.

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 US 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 DC, 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.

LYDIA FRUMKIN
Piano & Seminars

Honors Diploma, Leningrad University.

Former Professor of Piano, Oberlin Conservatory. Master classes and festivals in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, Mexico, Russia, and in the US 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 US cities including New York (Merkin Hall, WMP Concert Hall), Cleveland (Severance Hall), Washington DC (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.

HELEN XIE GEARY
Piano

M.M., B.M. (piano performance), San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Artist Diploma, Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

First Prize, University of Central Florida Concerto Competition, First Prize, Wednesday Music Club Competition, Orlando, FL. Piano Faculty, Community Music School of Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Piano Pedagogy Laboratory Program; Piano Faculty, Neighborhood Music School, New Haven, Connecticut, Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts. Instructor, Classroom Piano and Music Theory, Sichuan, China. Accompanist for various soloists and ensembles including recital with Yunan Philharmonic concertmaster, Pinchang Li, Chongqing, China.

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 – Duo piano performances with Bradford Gowen.

ANASTASSIA IVANOVA
Piano

D.M.A., University of Maryland; M.M., B.M. (with Distinction), Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory; post-graduate studies, Trinity College of Music, London, UK.

First prize, International Piano Competition Petar Konjovic, Belgrade and Homer Ulrich Award, U of MD. Performances at Caramoor NY, also in Yugoslavia, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Grand Hall of Moscow State Conservatory, Pushkin State Museum of Art, Teatro Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica, Alti Hall, Kyoto, Japan; Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

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.

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.

EDVINAS MINKSTIMAS
Piano

Steinway Artist; D.M.A., M.M., The Juilliard School; Artist Diploma, Paris Conservatory; M.M., B.M., Lithuanian Academy of Music; piano studies with Jerome Lowenthal, Michel Beroff, Joseph Kalichstein, Idil Biret, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sviatoslav Richter, Veronika Vitaite.

US representative and guest faculty, Lithuanian Academy of Music; guest faculty at UAA, USC, GU, CA music programs, guest faculty at the Washington International Piano Festival, resident artist of Phillips Collection Music Series, Embassy Series festivals in USA, Malaga Clasica festival in Spain. Solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Teatro Echegaray, Teatro Cervantes, Salle Pleyel, Salle Faure, Cite de la Musique, CNSMDP, Kennedy Center, Strathmore, National Gallery of Art, Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow) and others. Winner of eight international piano competitions and recipient of numerous awards and scholarships. Regular broadcasts can be heard on WETA radio (USA), Mezzo classical music TV channel (Europe). Soloist with Lithuanian National Philharmonic, Ecuador, Bolivia Symphony Orchestras, Mozarteum, Mahler Philharmonic, Ile-de-France, New Juilliard Ensemble, Arlington Philharmonic, Fairfax Symphony, Amadeus, St. Christopher Chamber and other orchestras.

HASKELL SMALL
Piano, Music Theory & Composition

Professional studies, San Francisco Conservatory; B.F.A. Carnegie-Mellon University. 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.

WAYNE WILENTZ
Jazz, Pop, and R&B Piano; Jazz Vocal Coaching

B.S., Northwestern University.

Winner WAMMIE award for Contemporary Jazz CD; received Gold Record for chart-topping album with SKYY. Performed American and Brazilian jazz throughout the DC area since 1989. Numerous recordings as a performer and producer. Former member of and composer for 80’s funk band, SKYY. Performed with The Shirelles, The Marvellettes, Carl Garner’s Coasters, and Jimmy Horman. Recent recordings of Wayne Wilentz Quartet include original compositions.

SANA LEBEDEV
In Memoriam: Piano Faculty 1989-2019

Graduated with honors, Baku State Conservatory (former Soviet Union).

Diploma for outstanding accompaniment in All-Russia vocal and instrumental competitions. Performances with Fidan and Khuraman Kasimov, Cecylia Barczyk. Accompanied young artists at the beginning of their careers, including violinist Hilary Hahn, violinist Ilya Dobrovitsky, violinist Patricia Wnek. Played in numerous masterclasses, including for Mayer Brenner and Georgi Sharoyev. Teaches at Peabody Preparatory School (Baltimore) and accompanies at Goucher College. Performed extensively in Washington-Baltimore area with members of the Baltimore and Alexandria Orchestras and the former Mt. Vernon Orchestra.

MICHAEL ADCOCK Piano & Music Theory

AUDREY ANDRIST Piano

LYDIA FRUMKIN Piano & Seminars

HELEN XIE GEARY Piano

MARIBETH GOWEN Piano

ANASTASSIA IVANOVA Piano

DIONNE LAUFMAN Piano

BORA LEE Piano

JAEWON LEE Piano & Piano Department Chair

EDVINAS MINKSTIMAS Piano

HASKELL SMALL Piano, Music Theory & Composition

JEFFERY WATSON Piano, Music Theory, Composition & Vocal Coaching

WAYNE WILENTZ Jazz, Pop, and R&B Piano; Jazz Vocal Coaching

SANA LEBEDEV In Memoriam: Piano Faculty 1989-2019

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