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She has participated in Suzuki and pedagogy workshops throughout the country and in Australia and New Zealand. She was one of twenty Suzuki teachers invited to contribute to Teaching Suzuki Piano edited by Giles Comeau. She is a former member of the Suzuki Association Board of Directors, Co-Chair of the 2006 Suzuki National Conference, Past-President of the Tennessee Music Teachers Association and Director-Elect of Southern Division of Music Teachers National Association. Mrs. Adams was named the Tennessee Teacher of the Year in 1996 by the Tennessee Music Teachers and has received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Tennessee Governor’s School. She has received a Chancellor’s Citation for Service to the University of Tennessee, the first annual Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for the UT School of Music, the UT Volunteer Spirit Award and the YWCA Tribute to Women in the Arts Award. Mrs. Adams teaches applied piano, undergraduate and graduate piano pedagogy, and Suzuki pedagogy. MP3 Music Samples: FULL BIO: Fay Adams Research/Creative Activity: Fay Adams |
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John Brock, Emeritus Professor of Music, teaches organ and harpsichord. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he was an organ student of Warren Hutton. He is the author of an organ method, Introduction to Organ Playing in 17th and 18th Century Style, an outgrowth of his interest in early music performance practice. His recordings include two volumes of A Tennessee Organ Tour and the complete organ works of Hugo Distler. His career as a performer has taken him to many parts of the U.S. and to The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, where he has performed on both historic and modern organs. He also performs frequently as a harpsichordist. Mr. Brock is Assistant Organist at Church of the Ascension, Knoxville, and is active in the American Guild of Organists, both locally and nationally, as well as several other professional organizations. Organ, harpsichord. MP3 Music Samples: > Hugo Distler (from the CD entitled Hugo Distler with John Brock as the organist) FULL BIO: John Brock.pdf |
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David Brunell, Professor of Music, has concertized on four continents: North America (including Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean), South America, Europe, and Australia. With numerous concerto performances with orchestras and solo recitals to his credit, his performances have also been broadcast on many radio and television stations in many countries including New York City’s WQXR. He has also made several recordings for Enharmonic Records in concerto, solo, and collaborative performances with such artists as violinist Andres Cardenes. The many awards Dr. Brunell has received include first prizes in the Music Teachers National Association National Piano Competition, the Beethoven Sonata competition, and the prize for the best performance of the required work in the New Orleans International Competition. He also won top prizes in the Young Keyboard Artists, New Orleans, and Louise D. McMahon International Competitions, and was selected to the Artistic Ambassador Program of the United States Information Agency. As an Artistic Ambassador, Dr. Brunell premiered "Abandoned Bells" by distinguished American composer William Mayer. Dr. Brunell is also an active church pianist. He has recorded a CD of hymn arrangements by Mark Hayes, and has been heard performing sacred music on national television several times on Dr. D. James Kennedy’s Coral Ridge Hour. As a teacher, Dr. Brunell’s students have achieved distinctions including winning the MTNA Southern Division collegiate piano competition. Dr. Brunell’s teaching awards include the Tennessee Music Teachers Association Teacher of the Year Award and the Tennessee Governor’s School of the Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Brunell’s studies were at Indiana University, where he received the University’s highest musical and academic awards, the Joseph Battista Memorial Award, the Performer’s Certificate, and the John H. Edwards Fellowship. Prior to coming to Tennessee, Dr. Brunell taught at Saint Olaf College and at Indiana University. Dr. Brunell has also been a guest teacher at the Carson Newman College Summer Music Camp. MP3 Music Samples:
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Patricia Carter-Zagorski's teaching philosophy and pedagogy curriculum are defined by the promotion of world communication through the language of music. Her phenomenology study explored what western classical music communicates to listeners of various cultures, conducted concurrently with her recital and concert tours in South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, India, the Middle East, Indonesia, China and the United States. Her research on indigenous music and its communicates to its native people was supported by a Fulbright Senior Research and Teaching Grant (1989) at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan and by a Research Fellowship at the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR) (1997) in Amman, Jordan. Her collection of Jordanian traditional music is housed in the Library of the National Music Conservatory/Noor Al Hussein Foundation in Amman, Jordan, and includes performances, weddings, other celebrations, and interviews, and prompted an official Commendation from Queen Noor Al Hussein. These projects were inspiration for her development of a unique approach to reading keyboard music which aims to impart to students the total meaning of a musical composition as well as how to communicate this meaning in their future teaching and performing experiences. These skills can be experienced in her books Sight Reading Hymn Texture (2006); Sight Reading Homophonic Texture (1998) and Zagorski Sight Reading Method with Four Keyboard Textures (3rd edition,2000); the 2nd edition was published and distributed in St. Petersburg, USSR (1996). MP3 Music Sample: |
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Prior to this appointment he served on the Opera Studies faculty of Indiana University where he administered and served as Music Director and Conductor of the Martina Arroyo Opera Program. He is also founding Music Director and Conductor of the Seoul International Opera Program in Korea. Born in Belgium, Kevin acquired a diverse musical education in both Europe and the U.S. including studies with Murray Perahia, Gyorgy Sebok, Daniel Blumenthal and Ralph Votapek. As a pianist, Kevin has been a frequent soloist in such venues as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein. In response to performances and promotion of both standard and contemporary music, Kevin was named a Fellow of the Flemish Community by the Belgian government in 1998. In addition to work as a soloist, Kevin has been long active as a conductor of opera including conducting residencies at the National Opera La Monnaie in Brussels, The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and The National Opera Studio in London. He has also served as principal guest conductor for Opera Illinois (Peoria) and four seasons as Guest Music Director and Resident Conductor of the Illinois Opera Theatre at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Champaign-Urbana. He also has a life-long association with standard orchestral literature as well as a devotion to contemporary music. He has conducted the Northern Illinois Philharmonic, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, and was Resident Conductor of the Illinois New Music Ensemble from 2003-2005. Kevin combines these various disciplines into annual residencies in Asia where he regularly leads masterclasses and workshops for pianists, accompanists, singers and conductors. In September 2009, Kevin will be in Artist-in-Residence for the Second Annual Cultural Arts Festival in Chongqing, China where he will perform a solo recital, conduct a concert with the Southwest University Symphony Orchestra and present a series of masterclass and lecture-recitals. |
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At his New York debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, the New York Times called David Northington “an immensely gifted musician…who combines the technical mastery of a virtuoso with the musical sensitivity of a poet.” Such critical accolades have followed Northington throughout the world in concerts and concerto engagements. His tours have included the United States, eastern and western Europe, Canada, China, and Russia. In addition to recitals and concerto engagements, he has given master classes at many of the leading conservatories in these countries. David Northington’s masterful pianism has won him first prizes in the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the East/West Artists Competition, the American Music Scholarship Association’s International Competition, the unanimous Judges Prize at the Fourth Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and selection to the Artistic Ambassador Program sponsored by the United States Information Agency. As an Artistic Ambassador for the United States, Northington has toured extensively in France, Spain and Portugal. In addition to broadcasts throughout Europe on the Voice of America, he has filmed recitals in the historic Tallyrand Theatre in Paris for telecast on French National Television. Recently, Northington celebrated the international release of a compact disc featuring of the waltzes of Chopin on the Centaur Records label. After this release, Dr. Northington was invited to perform solo recitals in the United States, Italy and Poland. Since receiving his degrees at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Yale University School of Music, David Northington has taught on the faculties of several universities. His many teaching awards include the Tennessee Music Teachers Association’s Teacher of the Year Award and the Tennessee Governor’s School of the Arts “Outstanding Teacher Award’. Dr. Northington has also been the recipient of the Tennesssee Arts Commission’s Artist of the Year Award. MP3 Music Samples: FULL BIO:David Northington.pdf |
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