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11 Preparatory
Preparatory
This spring, Erena Lee,
Preparatory violin
student of Eugenia
Poustyreva, was selected
to participate
at the International
Youth Music Festival.
She received a standing
ovation after performing
Wienawsky’s
Legends with the
orchestra at the Great
Philharmonic Hall in
St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sean Schulze, chair of the Preparatory piano
department, was invited to participate in the
PianoTexas International Academy and Festival
held at Texas Christian University in June.
Dr. Schulze performed the Mozart Piano
Quartet in G Minor, K.478 with members of
the Calder Quartet (quartet-in-residence at
The Colburn School in Los Angeles). He is
pictured with them below.
Master class with Gerardo Teissonnière
Lee
Schulze with members of
the Calder Quartet
John Rady, Preparatory piano student of Gerardo
Teissonnière, received the Amati Award and
the Chamber Music Award at the 2008 Amati
Music Festival for his outstanding contributions,
and performed in the Honors Student Concert
at Steinway Hall on July 23. He also performed
in master classes for Manhattan School of Music
piano faculty members Zenon Fishbein and
Peter Vinograde at the festival.
John Rady in a master class with Zenon Fishbein
Orazi
Henry Shapard, Preparatory
cello student
of Melissa Kraut, won
the elementary division
of the Cleveland
Cello Society Competition.
Cecilia Orazi,
also a Preparatory
cello student of
Dr. Kraut, won the
high school division.
Preparatory piano faculty member Gerardo
Teissonnière (B.M., 1985, M.M., 1989, piano),
student of Vitya Vronsky Babin, completed his
third successful year as associate artistic director
at the Amati Music Festival in New York.
Mr. Teissonnière performed and presented
master classes at the festival. He also taught
his students in Cleveland from the Manhattan
School of Music through the school’s Distance
Learning department. Participants in the session
were CWRU piano major John Smetona
and Preparatory piano students Megan and
Stephanie Lee, Arianna Körting and Jianni Wu.
The festival’s final student concert took place
at Steinway Hall on July 23, where a portrait of
Mr. Teissonnière was unveiled in the Steinway
Artist Gallery.
Vaughn
In April, Matthew
Vaughan, Preparatory
violin student of
David Russell, became
the youngest winner
of the Senior Division
of the Columbus
Symphony Young
Musicians Competition.
This summer, he
attended the Meadowmount
School of
Music as a merit
scholarship student.