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2009American Liszt Society National FestivalLiszt and the Art of TranscriptionApril 3–5, 2009University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas | Steven Spooner, Festival DirectorPresented by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts, Spencer Museum of Art,Lied Center, Bales Organ Recital Hallwww.ContinuingEd.ku.edu

The University of KansasSchool of Fine ArtsDepartment of Music and DanceGreetings fellow Lisztians,It is my honor and pleasure to welcome you to the 2009 American Liszt SocietyNational Festival, Liszt and the Art of Transcription. This year’s theme examinestranscriptions by several composers and celebrates Liszt’s enormous influenceon this once-maligned genre. The sheer size of this genre indicates Liszt’s lifelongfascination with the multifaceted process of transcription and the necessary recreativeimagination it requires. Maurice Hinson points out that the Liszttranscriptions “probably represent the greatest body of unperformed music inany instrumental repertoire, but no valid assessment of Liszt, the composer, canbe made without reference to this music.”*Through performances of seldom-heard repertoire and probing lectures, worldrenownedpresenters will illustrate the many qualities of this distinctive art formthat requires a high level of creative adaptation—taking advantage of aninstrument’s broad offerings, while successfully working within its limitations toproduce pieces of value that are not re-workings but a genre of its own.The University of Kansas is pleased to host the 2009 American Liszt SocietyNational Festival, and I would like to thank several who have made this festival areality—namely Susan Elkins from KU Continuing Education, who has served asexecutive coordinator; the festival presenters, who have traveled from far andwide to enrich us with their artistic contributions; and numerous individuals whogave liberally of their time and resources to make this unique event a success.Sincerely,Steven Spooner2009 Festival Director* Hinson, Maurice. Guide to the Pianist’s Repertoire, third ed., 1999, Indiana Univ. Press.1530 Naismith Dr. Room 460 • Lawrence, KS 66045-3102 • Telephone: 785.864.3436 • Fax:785.864.5866

P r o g r a mFriday, April 3Spencer Museum of Art8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee9:45 a.m. Welcome, Tom Mastroianni, ALS PresidentJustin Kolb, Master of Ceremonies for the 2009 Festival10 a.m. Los Angeles International Liszt Competition Winner RecitalAnna Volovitch, Winner of the American Liszt Society AwardDanse macabreSaint-Saëns/Liszt/HorowitzStändchenSchubert/LisztEtude no. 6 in A minorPaganini/LisztRhapsodie espagnole Liszt, F.11 a.m. The 1886 Liszt Bechstein, LectureSusan Earle & Geraldine KeelingNoonLunch on your own1:30 p.m. RecitalEdmund BattersbyWaldszenen Op. 82 Schumann, R.Selected Song Transcriptions Liszt, F.Sonata no. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 Chopin, F.2:45 p.m. Refreshment Break3:15 p.m. The Romantic Piano: Some Myths Dispelled, LectureEdmund Battersby4:30 p.m. Recital: Transcriptions & Original WorksWindMy SongDanny BoySheep May Safely GrazeJesu, Joy of Man’s DesiringAdam GyorgyJarrett/GyorgyBach/PetriBach/HessHungarian Rhapsody no. 2 Liszt, F.La CampanellaWedding March TranscriptionMendelssohn/Liszt/Gyorgy5

P r o g r a m5:30 p.m. Dinner on your own7:30 p.m. Solo RecitalFrederic ChiuPiano Sonata in F Major, Op. 54 Beethoven, L.Prelude and Fugue in A-Flat Major, WTC IIErbarme dich, from St. Matthew PassionChorale PreludesNun komm, der Heider HeilandWachet auf, ruft uns die StimmeBach, J.S.Bach/ChiuBach/BusoniCavatine du quatuor no. 13 en si bémol majeur Op. 130, Beethoven/AlkanAdagio, quatuor no. 6 en si bémol majeur Op. 18/6, Beethoven/Saint-SaënsFugue finale du quatuor en ut majeur no. 9 Op. 59/3, Beethoven/Saint-SaënsSymphony no. 5Saturday, April 4Swarthout Recital Hall8:30 a.m. Registration & CoffeeIntermissionBeethoven/Liszt9 a.m. Motivic Density & Thematic Simultaneity in the Romantic Piano Transcription, LectureJonathan Mann10 a.m. Master ClassJohn PerryNoonBox Lunch($12, registration required)1 p.m. Piano RecitalJacqueline LeungBallade in B minor no. 2 Liszt, F.The LarkGlinka /BalakirevCorbin BeisnerBallade, Das Geisterschiff Tausig, C.Les Berceaux, Op. 23 no. 1Recuerdos de la AlhambraQuartet D. 810, III & IVKoji AttwoodSvyatoslav & Lana Levin DuoRéminiscences de Don Juan (S/G656) Liszt, F.Faure/AttwoodTarrega/AttwoodSchubert/Attwood6

P r o g r a m2:30 p.m. Recital: Transcriptions of the Modern EraPaul BarnesFrom Monsters of Grace (unpublished)EpilogueBarnes/GlassFrom Trilogy Sonata (2000)III. Dance from Act II Scene III of AkhnatenFrom Orphée Suite for Piano (2000)II. Orphée’s BedroomIV. Orphée and the PrincessFrom Piano Concerto no. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) (2004)III. The LandRichard Reber & Julia BroxholmApparition for Amplified Piano and Soprano (1979) Crumb, G.3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break4–5:30 p.m. Master ClassJohn Perry5:45–7:15 p.m. Gala Transcription RecitalAlexandre DossinAida di Verdi – Danza Sacra e Duetto FinaleVerdi/LisztSix Polish SongsMaiden’s WishSpringThe RingBacchanaleMy JoysHomecomingOn Wings of SongReiseliedWilliam WellbornJustin KolbChopin/LisztMendelssohn/LisztMendelssohn/LisztMichael BoydSuite on Themes from El Amor BrujoFalla/Chavchavadze7

P r o g r a mLuiz De Moura CastroThree sonnets del Petrarca, S.158 Liszt, F.Sonetto 47Sonetto 104Sonetto 123Overture to TannhäuserJoel HastingsWagner/Liszt7:30 p.m. Gala Banquet($50, Kansas Union, Big 12 Room, registration required)Sunday, April 5Lied Center/Bales Recital Hall8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee9 a.m. The Transcendental Etudes (S. 139)KU Piano Students10 a.m. Piano RecitalEtude no. 1 Preludio, Ann WuEtude no. 2 Molto vivace, Eun Ju KimEtude no. 3 Paysage, Jeremy WestEtude no. 4 Mazeppa, Connie MakEtude no. 5 Feux Follets, Joshua CharlesEtude no. 6 Vision, Levi LarsonEtude no. 7 Eroica, Suk Jung WooEtude no. 8 Wilde Jagd, Alec TauscherEtude no. 9 Ricordanza, Holly KordahlEtude no. 10 Allegro agitato molto, Su Jin KoEtude no. 11 Harmonies du Soir, Jamie BoneEtude no. 12 Chasse-Neige, Nick SusiJohn PerryPiano Sonata in D Major, Op. 10 no. 3 Beethoven, L.Waldszenen Op. 82 Schumann, R.Sonetto del Petrarca 104 Liszt, F.Mephisto Waltz8

B i o g r a p h i e sStephen Ackert is head of the musicdepartment at the National Galleryof Art in Washington, D.C., and anadjunct teacher of organ at NorthernVirginia Community College inAlexandria, Va. A graduate of OberlinCollege, Northwestern University,and the University of Wisconsin,Dr. Ackert studied organ andharpsichord as a Fulbright scholar in Frankfurt, Germany,where his teachers were Helmut Walcha and Maria Jaeger-Jung. He has performed organ and harpsichord recitalsand presented lecture-recitals in many of Washington,D.C.’s prime venues, including the National Shrine ofthe Immaculate Conception, the National Cathedral,the National Gallery of Art and the German Embassy.In 1999, he was a featured performer in the renowned“Thüringer Orgelsommer” recital series, playing on sixhistoric instruments in Thuringia, and in 2007, he returnedto Germany for his eighth recital tour of historic concerthalls and churches in that country. Ackert has served threeWashington area churches as organist and director of music:St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.), TheFalls Church (Falls Church, Va.), and The United Church(Formerly Concordia Kirche, Washington’s first Germanlanguagecongregation). At the United Church, he founded aseries of Bach concerts that continued for 13 years, includedmore than 40 concerts and developed a loyal following ofBach enthusiasts. At the National Gallery of Art, Ackertplans weekly public concerts and presents lectures andlecture-recitals on subjects that bring together visual andmusical arts. He has served on the boards of directors of theWashington International Bach Competition, the ArlingtonSymphony and is currently on the advisory board of theAmalfi Coast Music Festival and the Westfield Center.A Kansas native, Koji Attwood is awinner of Astral Artistic Services’2003 National Auditions and was thefeatured artist in May 2003 on www.yamahamusicsoft.com’s New YorkCity Rising Star Series. Mr. Attwoodmade his solo debut at the age of10, and one year later won secondprize at the Young Keyboard ArtistsAssociation International Competition. He claimed secondprize at both the Stravinsky and the Missouri SouthernInternational Keyboard Competitions and was a participantat the International William Kapell Keyboard Competitionand the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.Mr. Attwood has performed numerous solo recitals acrossthe country, including concerts in Steinway Hall and onthe Kosciuszko Foundation Concert Series. He appearsregularly on the “World of the Piano” series at Juilliard andis frequently heard on “Reflections from the Keyboard:the Pianist in Comparative Performance,” a weekly radioshow on New York’s WQXR station. Committed to theperformance of contemporary music, Mr. Attwood hasgiven the recent world premières of works by Cynthia Folio,Hector Morales Martinez, and Daniel Ott. Also active inchamber music, Mr. Attwood has performed with membersof the Borromeo and St. Lawrence String Quartets and is aregular collaborator with Mikhail Baryshnikov— havingperformed with the dancer’s White Oak Dance Project andprovided music for Mr. Baryshnikov’s 2002–03 solo tourof the United States. Koji Attwood received a bachelor ofmusic degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, wherehe studied with Seymour Lipkin, and a master of musicdegree from The Juilliard School under Jerome Lowenthal.He recently earned his doctor of musical arts degree atJuilliard, where he continued his studies withMr. Lowenthal.Paul Barnes, praised by The NewYork Times for his “Lisztian thunderand deft fluidity,” and the SanFrancisco Chronicle as “ferociouslyvirtuosic,” has electrified audienceswith his intensely expressive playingand cutting-edge programming.He has been featured four times onAPR’s “Performance Today” and onthe cover of Clavier Magazine. Barnes presented the worldpremier of Philip Glass’s Piano Concerto no. 2 (After Lewisand Clark), and the premier recording was recently releasedby Orange Mountain Music. Gramophone Magazine remarkedthat this recording is “certainly one of the most enjoyablerecent releases of Glass’s music. … Paul Barnes is a shiningsoloist.” Barnes is professor and co-chair of piano at theUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Music. He teachessummers at the Bösendorfer International Piano Academy inVienna and coaches students of Menahem Pressler, Barnes’own teacher, at Indiana University, where Barnes receivedhis doctorate in piano performance. Recent performancesinclude Philip Glass Retrospective recitals at the EuropeanPiano Teachers Association Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia,and the 50th Anniversary College Music Society NationalConference in Salt Lake City. Barnes released his eleventhCD last February, “The American Virtuoso,” featuring musicof Samuel Barber, Joan Tower and Philip Glass. Paul Barnes’recording of the music of Philip Glass is available atAmazon.com or on Itunes. Visit www.paulbarnes.net.11

B i o g r a p h i e sEdmund Battersby received hisbachelor’s and master’s of musicfrom the Juilliard School of Music.He made his concert debuts inWigmore Hall in London and AliceTully Hall in Lincoln Center. He hascollaborated with such celebratedensembles as the Tokyo Quartet,the Orion Quartet and the VermeerQuartet and has been a featured artist at festivals such asMostly Mozart in New York and the Santa Fe ChamberMusic Festival. At the Library of Congress in Washington,D.C., he has performed more than 30 works of chambermusic that were broadcast live nationally. Battersby’srecording of Granados’ Goyescas for Koch Internationalwas short-listed for a Grammy Award, and his landmarkdouble CD of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, releasedin 2005 (Naxos), which he presented on both period andmodern instruments, has received worldwide attention.Other recordings feature the complete Songs WithoutWords of Mendelssohn (MHS) as well as discs of Schubert,Schumann and Chopin works. Battersby was invited tothe Smithsonian Institution to give the U.S. premiere onQueen Victoria’s 1851 Erard piano, which Liszt had usedto perform for the Queen and Prince Albert at BalmoralCastle, Scotland. He has also played period pianos atthe Frick Collection in N.Y., the Bard Festival as well asPro Musica Rara in Baltimore. Edmund Battersby hastaught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana Universitysince 1995. He is director of the Artur Balsam Ensembleand teaches classes for piano and strings through the IUFoundation and the Charley Creek Foundation.Corbin Beisner started playing pianoat age five and began studying jazz withRick DeBella. At 12, he began studyingclassical piano and also became interestedin composition. His principle earlyteachers were Roger Bushell and EkaterinaMelkamini. He has attended summermusic festivals at Interlochen, Mich., the Mannes Schoolof Music in New York City, the Forum Internacionalde Musica in Barcelona, Spain, and the Lake ComoSummer Piano Academy in Lake Como, Italy. He haswon numerous awards at competitions, including: MTNAstate competition, International Liszt Competition inAsuza, Calif., the Liberace play-alike competition, andthe Premier Prize in Forum Internacional de Musicacompetition. Mr. Beisner has also worked with teacherssuch as Mykola Suk, Daniel Pollack, Leslie Howard, FabioBidini, William Grant Nabore and Stanislav Ioudenitch.He is currently studying with Luiz de Moura Castro at theHartt School of Music in Hartford, Conn. He continuesto perform, compose and improvise and plans on being atouring composer-pianist in the near-future.Pianist Michael Boyd is active assoloist, collaborative artist, lecturerand teacher. He has performedas soloist with the RochesterPhilharmonic, the MilwaukeeSymphony, the Toledo Symphony,the Dearborn Symphony and theEastman Chamber Orchestra. In2007, he performed the rarely heardoriginal 1838 version of Liszt’s Paganini Etudes at theopening concert of the American Liszt Society Festivalat the San Francisco Conservatory. In Europe, Dr. Boydhas performed a series of recitals in Greece and presentedtwo lecture-recitals in Spain. The first program focusedon Andalusian influences in the keyboard sonatas ofDomenico Scarlatti and Padre Antonio Soler and was givenin the city where they both had royal appointments to theSpanish court, San Lorenzo de El Escorial. The secondprogram, presented at the concert hall of the Manuel deFalla Archive in Granada, focused on Manuel de Falla’sAndalusian keyboard compositions. Dr. Boyd has recordedon VAI and Fleur De Son Classics. He is professor of pianoat the University of Toledo, has been a visiting professor atthe Eastman School of Music, and has been on the facultyof Indiana University’s Summer Piano Academy and theChautauqua Summer Institution. Dr. Boyd is a SteinwayArtist.Soprano Julia Broxholm maintainsa versatile schedule of solo andchamber music performances. She isa founding member of SATB, a vocalquartet specializing in vocal chambermusic of the 19 th and 20 th centuries.Her particular area of interest asa recitalist is vocal literature byAmerican composers of the 20 thand 21 st centuries. Her SATB performances have taken herfrom the Cayman Islands International Music Festival,to Severance Hall, to Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School ofMusic. Recordings include two releases with SATB: Magic,and It’s a Grand Night…Four Singing. She has also recordedtwo CDs of soprano, clarinet repertoire with clarinetistFred Ormand and pianist Martin Katz. Of Shepherds,12

B i o g r a p h i e sRomance and Love features music of the 19 th century, andTranscendence includes Ariel by Ned Rorem, and To Be SungUpon the Water by Dominick Argento. She received herD.M.A from the University of Michigan School of Music,and she is currently on the voice faculty of the University ofKansas Department of Music and Dance in the School ofFine Arts.Bridget de Moura Castro holdsdegrees from London, Budapestand Fort Worth. She has lectured inJapan, Spain, Switzerland, Argentinaand Brazil. Her 12 CDs includeLiszt’s two-piano works with herhusband, four organ CDs recordedin Portugal on an historic organ,and concerts at Hartford Cathedral,Austin, Tex., and on a Bremer organ in Rio de Janeiro.This past year, she performed for the Mexican Guild ofOrganists in Taxco, gave two recitals in Chile and one atMendoza Cathedral, Argentina. She will be performingorgan recitals in Portugal and England this summer.National Symphony. His regular chamber music partnersinclude Joshua Bell, Pierre Amoyal, Gary Hoffman, FredSherry, Charles Neidich, David Krakauer and the St.Lawrence and Amernet Quartets. His repertoire rangesfrom Bach to Frederick Rzewski, Elliott Carter to GaoPing, with a special interest in composers of the early20th century. He has recorded over 20 CDs, includingthe complete works of Prokofiev in 10 CDs and works byChopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Rossini, Debussyand Ravel. His latest recording was produced by Producerof the Year Grammy award-winner Judith Sherman,featuring the Beethoven Symphony V transcribed by Lisztfor solo piano. Chiu is highly in demand as a teacher formaster classes and workshops. His Deeper Piano Studiesprogram has received rave reviews from participants andteachers; a documentary of one of the DPS workshops isavailable on DVD and YouTube.com. He has been a guestspeaker at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music,the New England Conservatory, the Central Conservatoryof China, and most recently at the Jacob School of Music atIndiana University. Visit www.fredericchiu.com.Luiz de Moura Castro, internationalconcert artist with over 40 CDs,is a professor at the Hartt School,University of Hartford; LiceuBarcelona; Pro Arte, Rio de Janeiro;CUYO Mendoza. A specialist inromantic works (especially Liszt),Beethoven and South AmericanMusic, Luiz offers master classesand private lessons and is a popular international festivalparticipant. He has a Latin Grammy nomination and aLiszt DVD for World Piano Pedagogy Conference.Frederic Chiu’s Chinese-Americanbackground combines with hismany years of living in France tocreate a unique, worldly perspectiveon Classical music and the piano.He has performed extensivelyin Europe, Asia, South Americaand North America, including atWigmore Hall, Avery Fisher Hall,the Kennedy Center, the Theatre des Champs-Elysees,Suntory Hall and the China National Concert Hall. He hasworked with conductors John Nelson, Stefan Sanderlingand Alexander Titov, and with orchestras such as theKansas City Symphony, the BBC Concert Orchestra andScottish Symphony, the Calgary Symphony and the ChinaOf the 10 choirs at the University of Kansas, the Universityof Kansas Concert Chorale is the largest select mixedensemble. This group performs works that span the entirebreadth of choral literature and require an advanced level ofmusicianship, vocal and ensemble skills. The choir includesboth undergraduate and graduate students from all majorsand disciplines. Under the direction of Dr. Paul Tucker, theKU Concert Choir has been selected for performances atKansas Music Educators Association and for the SouthwestDivision of the American Choral Directors Association.Concert Choir has been recognized for its innovativeapproach to programming, frequently performingpremieres of new works and rarely performed choral works.13

B i o g r a p h i e sAlexandre Dossin, considered byMartha Argerich an “extraordinarymusician” and by internationalcritics as a “phenomenon” and“a master of contrasts,” keeps anactive performing, recording andteaching career. With degreesfrom the Moscow TchaikovskyConservatory and the Universityof Texas at Austin, he has studied with Sergei Dorensky,William Race and Gregory Allen. Dossin received FirstPrize and the Special Prize at the 2003 Martha ArgerichInternational Piano Competition in Buenos Aires,Argentina. Other awards include the Silver Medal andsecond honorable mention in the Maria Callas GrandPrix, and Third Prize and Special Prize in the MozartInternational Piano Competition. Dossin has performedrecitals, concertos with orchestras, and chamber musicin over 20 countries, including international festivals inJapan, Canada, United States, Brazil and Argentina, onsome occasions sharing the stage with Martha Argerich.He has several CDs released with Naxos, BlueGriffin andMSR Classics labels and is praised in reviews by Diapason,The Financial Times, Fanfare Magazine, American RecordGuide, Clavier and other international publications. Dossinwas recently featured in the main interview and on thecover of Clavier Magazine (May, 2008) and is an editor forthe Schirmer Performance Editions Series (The Seasons, byP. Tchaikovsky, 2009).Susan Earle is curator of European &American art at the Spencer Museum ofArt and a courtesy assistant professor in thehistory of art department at KU. She taughtpreviously at New York University and wasa research assistant at the MetropolitanMuseum of Art in New York. She has organized more than30 exhibitions and held a Curatorial Research Fellowshipfrom the Getty Foundation. Dr. Earle earned a B.A. withdistinction in English and art history at Williams Collegein Massachusetts, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history atthe Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.Ekaterina Gotsdiner, born inToula, Russia, holds a degree inmusic theory from the MoscowMusic Tchaikovsky Collegeand degrees in musicology andorgan from the Moscow StateConservatory. Her Russian teachersincluded Oleg Yantchenko andAlexey Semyonov, and she has participated in masterclasses with Peter Planjavsky, Ludger Lomann and Josvan der Kooj. Gotsdiner won prizes at the First KitkaInternational Organ Competition (2005), The FirstBeedlaw Moscow Festival of the Young Artists (2007), theFifth International Organ Music Festival-Competition“Gatchina–St. Petersburg” (2004), the Sixth InternationalOrgan Competition Marcello Galanti (2005, Italy), and theFirst All-Russian Festival-Competition for young organists“Soli Deo Gloria” (2007). She has performed at concerthalls and churches in Moscow and throughout Russia, aswell as in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and the UnitedStates. She has been featured on Russian state radio andtelevision and has performed and lectured about Russianorgan music at UCLA and in Amsterdam. In addition, shetaught music theory at Moscow Conservatory College from2001–08. Gotsdiner was an associate of music ministryat the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conceptionin Moscow and currently serves as organist at St. Ann’sCatholic Church in Prairie Village, Kan. She is enrolledin the master’s degree program in church music at theUniversity of Kansas, where she studies with MichaelBauer.Adam Gyorgy was accepted tothe Béla Bartók Conservatory as aprodigy in 1994, at the age of 12. Heflourished under the tutelage of hispiano teacher, Katalin Halmagyi.In 1998, he won the National YouthPiano Competition and two yearslater won Hungary’s Pianist 2000award at the age of 18. He wasaccepted at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapestin 2000 and studied under Professors György Nador andBalazs Reti. He graduated in 2006 and is currently doinghis doctoral studies at the Liszt Academy with a statescholarship. In 2002, Adam won the Vienna Classics Prize(Wiener-Klassik-Preis) with his outstanding interpretationof Haydn’s Sonata in G major (no. 54). In 2003, he wonthe Special Prize at the San Remo International PianoCompetition, and in 2004, he won all prizes (First Prize,Grand Prize and Special Prize) at the First InternationalChopin Piano Competition in Budapest. That same year,CNN World Report identified him as a “rising star.” OnOctober 22, 2006, Adam debuted at New York’s CarnegieHall to great acclaim. He continues to tour the world,delighting audiences in the United States, Europe andSoutheast Asia with his virtuosity, his charm, and hisimprovisations on well-known melodies, all of which invitecomparisons to the incomparable Franz Liszt.14

B i o g r a p h i e sCanadian-born Joel Hastingswas the winner of the 2006 8thInternational Web ConcertHall Competition and the 1993International Bach Competition,Washington, D.C. At the TenthVan Cliburn International PianoCompetition in Fort Worth,Texas, one reporter designated Mr.Hastings the “audience favorite” while another wrote,“The kinetic fingers of this young Canadian remindedme strongly of his late countryman, Glenn Gould.” In aNewsweek review, he “pulled the audience to their feet aftera wild performance of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz.” Reviewershave described his playing as passionate, mesmerizing,hypnotic and transcendental. His discography includesCDs of Franz Liszt’s song and operatic transcriptions;Frederic Chopin’s 24 etudes; and selections of works byProkofiev, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn and Scriabin,available on the Prestant Records label. His latest CDincludes works by Grieg and Respighi, along withtranscriptions of music by Bach, Schubert, Wagner andGershwin, available on the Cambridge Recording label.Geraldine Keeling is founder/director of the Los AngelesInternational Liszt Competition. She also has doneextensive research on the pianos and concerts of FranzLiszt. She has published 13 articles in nine internationaljournals and books and presented papers at internationalLiszt conferences in Budapest, Weimar, Vienna,Stockholm, Canada and the United States. She has been amember of the board of the American Liszt Society since1988.Justin Kolb delights in playingmusic that lives in undeservedobscurity. He is also committedto the career developmentfield, focusing on such issues asentrepreneurism, communityengagement and technology. Thispast year, Justin shared his viewswith audiences at the College MusicSociety’s regional conference in Gettysburg, ChamberMusic America’s annual conference and the MusicTeachers National Association in Atlanta. He will addressthese issues at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad,Serbia, and also present a solo recital. His Albany Recordsrecordings include music by Robert Starer and WilliamFerris and have received enthusiastic reviews. A recipientof the Distinguished Alumnus Award from DePaulUniversity, Justin serves on the ALS Board of Directors. Hecites German Diez, former student and assistant to ClaudioArrau and Justin’s friend, mentor, teacher and artisticadvisor, as his most important musical influence. Visit:www.justinkolb.com.Jonathan Kregor earned abachelor’s of music at Universityof North Carolina, a master’s inmusic and a Ph.D. at HarvardUniversity. He is assistant professorof musicology at the University ofCincinnati, College-Conservatoryof Music. His articles and reviewson Liszt are in Nineteenth-CenturyMusic Review, Journal of Musicology, Notes and JALS. Heis volume editor of C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard works, C.P.E.Bach: The Complete Works. He has presented papersat meetings of the American Musicological Society,Royal Musical Association, International Conferenceon Nineteenth-Century Music, International FannyMendelssohn Hensel Conference and Stiftung WeimarerKlassik und Kunstsammlungen. Current projects includea monograph on Liszt’s solo piano transcriptions and acritical edition of Clara Schumann’s arrangements.Jacqueline Leung was born in HongKong and began piano studies at theHong Kong Academy for PerformingArts under the tutelage of EleanorWong. She received her bachelor ofmusic degree at the Royal Academyof Music, London, and her master’sdegree under Dr. Tamas Ungar atTexas Christian University, withthe support of the Walsh Piano Peformance scholarship.Her performances have taken her to Austria, Belgium,Italy and Poland. She is the winner of the Vicars ClosePrize awarded by the Royal Schools of Music and receivedhighly commended honors in both the Helen Eames PianoPrize and Christian Carpenter Recital Prize. Jacquelinehas recorded for Radio Television Hong Kong and madeappearances with orchestras in the U.K., U.S., Hong Kongand Poland.15

B i o g r a p h i e sSlava and Lana Levin, concertpianists born in the Soviet Union,came to the U.S. with their 2-yearolddaughter Anna in November1989. Both hold doctoral degreesfrom the Moscow State TchaikovskyConservatory, where they studiedwith such outstanding musiciansas Yakov Milstein, Lev Vlasenkoand Michael Pletnev. The Levinshave played together and as soloiststhroughout the Kansas City area atcolleges and universities, museums,churches and synagogues, andas part of Kansas City ChamberSoloists. They have also played inMontreal, New York at the 92ndStreet Y, Dallas TCU, Jefferson CityCommunity Concerts, LitchfieldPerforming Arts Series, Hartford Symphony and KansasCity Camerata. After a seven-year performing hiatus,the Levins presented a two-piano benefit concert for theFolly Theater and raised $80,000 for the Turning Point,a local organization offering support for individuals andfamilies facing chronic illnesses. From 2004 to 2006, theLevins performed charitable concerts for Children’s HopeInternational in Saint Louis to benefit orphans worldwideand Worldways Children’s Museum. In 2006, they raised$10,000 in a private Kansas City home recital to benefitunderprivileged children. The Levins perform in public forcharities only.Dr. Jonathan Edward Mann,nominated for the 2008 ClassicalFellowship Awards of the AmericanPianists Association, enjoys adynamic national and internationalperforming and teaching career. Heis currently assistant professor ofpiano at the University of Idaho’sLionel Hampton School of Music.He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in pianoperformance under Dr. Karen Shaw at Indiana University,where he served as associate instructor and faculty memberof the Young Pianist’s Program. He earned his doctoratein piano performance from the University of CincinnatiCollege-Conservatory of Music, and was teaching assistantto Professor James Tocco and a faculty member of theCollege-Conservatory’s Preparatory Department. Dr.Mann has established a strong presence in the PacificNorthwest as a teacher, performer, collaborator, clinicianand adjudicator. Recital venues include Vancouver,Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boise andSpokane. He is also in high demand as a collaborator,having recently performed with New York Philharmonicclarinetist Mark Nuccio. Dr. Mann has given masterclasses at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music,University of Washington, Oregon State University, BoiseState University, Central Washington University, WesternIllinois University, Whitworth University, University ofNorth Florida and University of Jacksonville.Anna Myeong, organist at TrinityLutheran Church in Mission, Kan.,is a native of Korea. She earned herbachelor of music at Seoul’s YonseiUniversity and served as organistfor three Seoul churches from 1990to 1996. Her Korean teachers wereMyungja Cho, Inhyung Cho andHeesung Kim. After moving to theU. S., she spent four years as organist at Grace LutheranChurch in Corvallis, Ore., while her husband completed aPh.D., and she studied with Barbara Baird at the Universityof Oregon, Eugene. After her family moved to KansasCity, she earned a master of music at the University ofKansas under James Higdon, where she currently pursuinga doctorate. She was elected to the Pi Kappa Lambdahonorary music fraternity. In 2006, she attended an organinterpretation course in Romainmôtier, Switzerland, whereshe studied with Marie-Claire Alain, Luigi Tagliavini andGuy Bovet. She has also participated in master classeswith Lynne Davis, Michael Bauer, Susan Landale and JohnGrew. Ms. Myeong has given numerous recitals in NorthAmerica and Europe, including programs at WashingtonNational Cathedral in D.C., St. Thomas Church in NewYork City, Princeton University Chapel, Grace Cathedralin San Francisco, Trinity Church in Boston, and Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. In April 2009, she will performat Harvard University (Adolphus Busch Hall), where E.Power Biggs installed the famous Flentrop organ in 1957.She will also be a featured artist at the AGO Region VIConvention (Wichita, Kan.) in June 2009.Visit www.annamyeong.com.16

B i o g r a p h i e sJohn Perry, professor, keyboard studies,earned his bachelor’s and master’s degreesat the Eastman School of Music, where hestudied with Cecile Genhart, and duringsummers, with Frank Mannheimer.Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship,he studied in Europe and worked withWladyslav Kedra, Polish concert artistand professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, andCarlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of thepiano department at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Musicin Rome. Mr. Perry has won numerous awards, includinghighest prize in both the Busoni and Viotti InternationalPiano Competitions in Italy and special honors at theMarguerite Long International Competition in Paris. Hehas performed extensively throughout Europe and NorthAmerica both as acclaimed soloist and respected chambermusician. He also enjoys an international reputation as ateacher, presenting master classes worldwide. His studentshave been prize winners in most major competitions,including two first-prize winners in the Rubinstein,four first-prize winners in the Music Teacher’s NationalAssociation national competition, and first-prize winnersin the Naumburg National Chopin competition, BeethovenFoundation competition, the Federated Music Clubs,and the YKA, AMSC and YMF competitions. He has hadfinalists in the Chopin International in Warsaw, the VanCliburn, the Queen Elisabeth, Busoni, Viotti and the ThreeRivers competitions. In addition to his professorship atthe USC Thornton School, Mr. Perry is also visiting artistteacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, afaculty member at the Colburn School for the PerformingArts in Los Angeles, the Idyllwild School of the Arts inIdyllwild, Calif., and frequent guest faculty at the BanffCenter in Alberta, Canada. During the summer, he is anartist-teacher at the Aspen Music Festival and School, theSarasota Music Festival, and the Holland Music Sessions.His recordings are available on the Telefunken, MusicalHeritage Society, CBC, ACA and Fox labels.Richard Reber received hisundergraduate degree at theEastman School of Music wherehe studied piano with CecileStaub Genhart. He received aFulbright Scholarship to attendthe Academy of Music in Vienna,where he studied piano with GretaHinterhofer, a protégé of Emilvon Sauer. He furthered his piano studies with FrankMannheimer (a student of Tobias Matthay) and DavidBurge, a recognized authority in 20th-century pianomusic. Mr. Reber has taught at the University of Kansassince 1964 and has continued to be active as a recitalist,lecturer and adjudicator nationally and internationally.His students have won competitive awards and holdfaculty positions at universities in the U.S., Asia, andCentral America He has participated with contemporarycomposers in artist-in-resident programs, winning thecommendations of featured composers, such as AaronCopland, Elliot Schwartz, and George Crumb. He hasreceived research grants to study and perform the pianomusic of Bela Bartok, Olivier Messiaen, KarlheinzStockhausen, C. Curtis-Smith, Maurice Ohana, GeorgeCrumb, and John Corigliano. He has also presented andperformed for the College Music Society, The AmericanMatthay Association, The Mannheimer Piano FestivalAssociation, and the Music Teachers’ National Association.In the spring of 2007, he collaborated for a second timewith George Crumb in an artist-in-residence program,serving as a panelist and guest artist, performing Crumb’sMakrokosmos I and II.Sunny Son is a doctoral candidateand teaching assistant at theUniversity of Kansas, where shereceived her master’s degree in organperformance. She earned a bachelorof music at the University of NorthTexas and a performance diplomaat the Royal Academy of Musicin London. Her teachers includeLenora McCroskey, Susan Landale, Lionel Rogg and JamesHigdon. Sunny has won several competitions, includingthe 1999 William C. Hall Pipe Organ Competition inSan Antonio, Tex., the AGO Regional Young Artist’sOrgan Competition for Region VII in 1999, and the 2002Ottumwa Undergraduate Competition in Iowa. She hasparticipated in the Paris International Organ Competition,the Dublin International Organ Competition, theLuxembourg International Organ Competition and theAndré Marchal International Competition. Recently, shewas a semi-finalist in the first Canadian InternationalOrgan Competition in Montréal. Sunny performswidely both in America and Europe as a soloist and withensembles. She is currently the organist at the St. LawrenceCatholic Campus Center in Lawrence, Kan.17

B i o g r a p h i e sJohn C. Tibbetts is associateprofessor of film at the Universityof Kansas. His 13 published booksinclude The American TheatricalFilm (Bowling Green, 1985), Dvorakin America (Amadeus, 1993),Encyclopedia of Novels into Film(Facts on File, 2002) and Composersin the Movies (Yale, 2005). Hisarticles on film, literature, painting, theater and musichave appeared in Film Comment, Opera News, HistoricalJournal of Film Radio and Television, and Literature/FilmQuarterly. He has worked as a broadcaster for NationalPublic Radio, the Christian Science Monitor RadioNetwork, Voice of America and CBS television. His radioseries, The World of Robert Schumann and Piano Portraits,has been heard worldwide on the WFMT broadcastnetwork. He was recently awarded the 2008 KansasGovernor’s Arts in Education Award by Governor KathleenSebelius. His hobbies include playing piano for silent filmsand illustrating his own books and articles.Paul Tucker, born in Kingston,Jamaica, studied conducting andpiano at the Jamaica School ofMusic with Dr. Kaestner Robertson.He owned and operated SabreSound Studio in Riverside, Calif.,where he produced and performedon albums for various recordingartists. He earned a bachelor’s ofmusic from the University of Texas at Arlington, a master’sof music and a doctor of musical arts from the Universityof North Texas. Dr. Tucker is currently director of choralactivities at the University of Kansas. He teaches graduatechoral conducting, orchestral bowing for conductors anddirects two of KU’s 10 choral ensembles. He has taughtchoral music and served as band director at all educationallevels, from junior high through college. As a choralclinician, conductor, and adjudicator, he has traveledacross the U.S., the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Europe. Dr.Tucker is well known for his unique, methodical approachto the tuning of choral ensembles. In addition to using histechniques in choral clinics, he has outlined his approachin Choral Intonation: A Proactive Approach. Prior to joiningthe KU faculty, Dr. Tucker served as director of choralactivities at Richland College in Dallas, Tex. He is thefounder, artistic director and conductor of Paradigm VocalEnsemble, a semi-professional choral ensemble based inArlington, Tex. They have recorded five compact discs, TheBest of Paradigm, What Sweeter Music, Christmas Throughthe Ages, Paradigm Vocal Ensemble 10 Year Reunion, andSing ’til the Spirit Moves. Dr. Tucker is a conductor, pianist,composer/arranger, and record producer. Alliance MusicPublishing and Neumark Music Publishing distribute hiscompositions.Anna Volovitch is the winner of theprestigious American Liszt SocietyAward at the 2008 Los AngelesInternational Liszt Competition,where she placed second in both theBudapest Concert and ConcertoDivisions. A native of Kazan,Russia, Anna had received awardsin international competitionsin Russia, Denmark, England and the Czech Republic.Since 2006, Anna has been a part of the Artist Certificateprogram at Azusa Pacific University, where she studieswith Roza Kostrzewska Yoder. Her continuing awardsinclude the SAI International Competition, MTAC StateCompetition, Antelope Valley Concerto Competition andAPU Concerto Competition.William Wellborn is in demandas a pianist, teacher and lecturerthroughout North America andEurope. He received an M.M. fromNew England Conservatory andhis B.M. in piano pedagogy andD.M.A. in piano performance fromthe University of Texas. His teachersincluded Gregory Allen, PatriciaZander, and Nancy Garret, and two leaders in the field ofpiano pedagogy—Amanda Vick Lethco and Martha Hilley.Guest artist appearances include New Orleans Institute forthe Performing Arts, Paderewski Festival, American LisztSociety, Great Romantics Festival in Hamilton, Canada,and Chopin chez George Sand festival de piano in LaChâtre, France. Wellborn’s lectures and workshops includethe 2000 World Pedagogy Conference, conservatoriesin Toronto and Paris, and music teachers associationsnationwide. In San Francisco, he gave an all-Mendelssohnprogram on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.He has been involved with A CONCERTed Effort, a SanFrancisco Bay Area concert series that has raised over$1,000,000 for AIDS organizations, and has hosted theSan Francisco-based radio program, “Piano Legacy.” The2009 summer European musical tour he directs will visitGermany, Austria and Hungary, exploring the lives and18

B i o g r a p h i e smusic of Haydn and Mendelssohn. An artist-teacher for theMasterclasses of Saint Malo (1998–2003) and Franz LisztSummer Piano Academy (2004–2007), Wellborn will teachand perform at the Austrian International Piano Seminarand Festival in Ebenfurth, Austria. He is a nationalboard member of the American Liszt Society, foundingpresident of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of theAmerican Liszt Society, and vice-president for the SanFrancisco Council of the Chopin Foundation. Wellbornis a faculty member at San Francisco Conservatory ofMusic and teaches piano in the preparatory and adultextension divisions and piano pedagogy in the collegiatedivision. His students frequently win top prizes in local,state, national and international piano competitions.Wellborn records for the Marco Polo and Cambria MasterRecordings labels. Visit www.williamwellborn.com.7.5” x 5” Kansas Liszt ProgramSchmitt Music,Supporting theArts since 1896Exclusive home of Steinway andSteinway-designed Boston andEssex pianos, Yamaha, Cristoforiand Lyrica pianos, Yamaha Disklavierand PianoDisc player pianos, andYamaha Clavinova digital pianos.FamilyOwnedSince1896Kansas’ authorized representatives for newand used Steinway & Sons pianos since 1896.Exquisite Steinway Artcase and Crown Jewelpianos available year-round in Kansas,exclusively through Schmitt Music.Each year Schmitt Music hosts thousands ofstudents in recitals in our auditoriums as aservice to our music community.Rosana Square7316 W 119th StreetOverland Park913-663-4756www.schmittmusic.com andkcrsvp@schmittmusic.com© 2009 Schmitt Music Company19

A c k n o w l e d g e m e n t sOur sincerest thanks to:American Liszt Society Board of DirectorsElvira & Richard AngelettiSusan Elkins, KU Continuing EducationTom Eversole, KU piano technicianAmanda Martin Hamon, Spencer Museum of ArtGunda & David HiebertRachel Hunter, Kansas Public RadioKansas City Music Teachers AssociationColin Mahoney, KU Music and Dance recording engineerLarry Mallett, Chair, KU Music and DanceJulia Scherer, Schmitt Music, Overland ParkJohn C. TibbettsDoug Wendel, Associate Director, Lied CenterTeah and Scott WeissRachel Wilder, KU Student Coordinator20

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