Master classes.

Collegiate Piano

Monday, March 26 * 10:30 A.M.-12:00 NOON

Jane Coop, distinguished university scholar, is a professor of piano and chamber music at the University of British Columbia. She holds an artist diploma and B.M. degree from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Anton Kuerti, and an M.M. degree from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Leon Fleischer. Coop has toured extensively throughout North America, Britain, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Her recitals have been performed in such cities as NewYork, London, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Prague, Beijing and Tokyo. As a concerto soloist, Coop has worked with such conductors as John Eliot Gardiner, Andrew Davis and Rudolf Barshai. With Mario Bernardi, Coop recorded three concertos with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Royal Philharmonic, Seattle and Oregon Symphonies, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and every major orchestra in Canada. Coop is an active recording artist with a current discography of 13 titles on both Skylark Records and CBC Records. She has collaborated with many of Canada's leading instrumentalists and is frequently invited to perform at chamber festivals throughout North America. Coop is a regular guest artist and teacher at the prestigious Kneisel Hall Festival in Blue Hill, Maine.

Intermediate Piano

Sunday, March 25 * 10:30 A.M.--12:00 NOON

Marvin Blickenstaff, NCTM, is known among piano teachers throughout the country for his teaching, lecturing, performing and publishing. He has presented workshops for piano teachers throughout the United States, and appears frequently as soloist and lecturer. For 16 summers he was on the faculty of International Workshops, where he has performed and lectured in Canada, Austria, Scotland, Norway, France and Switzerland. He currently serves as board president of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy and on the executive planning committee of the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. Blickenstaff has been on the editorial committee of American Music Teacher magazine and is an associate editor of Keyboard Companion. Blickenstaff taught for nine years at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and 20 years at Goshen College in Indiana. He now teaches at The College of New Jersey, Westminster Choir College and Conservatory of Rider University and The New School for Music Study. Blickenstaff holds degrees from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, where he received both performing and academic honors. His teachers have included Fern Nolte Davidson, Emil Danenberg and Bela B6szormenyi-Nagy, and he has coached with Leon Fleisher and Gyorgy Sebok.

High School Piano

Tuesday, March 27 * 2:15 P.M.--3:45 P.M.

David Wehr is the Geltz Distinguished Professor of Piano at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano performance from the University of Kansas, where he studied with Sequeira Costa. Other teachers include Peggy Erwin and Edward Zolas (Cleveland Institute of Music). Wehr won the 1983 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Award, the 1975 Chopin-Kosciuszko Prize in New York, and second prizes in the 1983 Naumburg and 1986 Kapell Competitions. Since winning the Gold Medal at the 1987 Santander International Piano Competition in Spain, Wehr has toured in more than 30 countries in Europe, the Far East and North and South America. Career highlights include performances with the London Symphony (Barbican Centre), National Symphony (Kennedy Center), Houston, Chautauqua, New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, all the major Spanish and Latin American orchestras, recitals in London's Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, Salle Gaveau (Paris), 92nd Street Y (NewYork) and the Musikverein (Vienna). His 20 recordings for Connoisseur Society include the complete Beethoven Sonata Cycle, complete Chopin nocturnes, Wagner-Liszt transcriptions, complete works of Grilles, two-piano discs of Bachmaninoff and Brahms (with Cynthia Bairn), and programs of Debussy, Delius, Mussorgsky, Schumann, Czerny and Joe Utterback.