Piano Faculty
Gloria Chuang - piano (JSS2, Piano Seminar)
Gloria Chuang (Piano, D.M.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor , B.M., and MM, Juilliard School ) is an ambassador of international relations through music, she has spoken and presented masterclasses in Taipei, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Baptist University and in colleges in the upper mid-west. She was appointed as the Distinguished Artist to Taiwan in 2000 by Winona State University. She has presented many concert series and clinics internationally in contemporary accessible music and music composed by women. She serves as the chair for the Arts Awareness for WMTA and the V.P. for Madison Area Piano Teachers Associated. Her recent CD, Wave, has been featured by the Minnesota Public Radio and broadcasted internationally. She is a faculty staff at University of Wisconsin in Madison and has developed many distinguished students that have play with Madison Symphony Orchestras and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Andrew Cooperstock - piano (YAS)
Heralded as a "technically impeccable and musically profound" pianist, Andrew
Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared
throughout five continents and in most of the fifty states, including performances
at New York's Alice Tully, Merkin, and Weill concert halls, the United Nations, and
in London, Beijing, Kiev, Seoul, Canberra, Lima, Geneva, and Hamburg, on National
Public Radio, Radio France, and the BBC. Winner of the National Federation of Music
Clubs Artist Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition, he has
since served as juror for these as well as the Music Teachers National Association
National Competition and the Liszt-Garrison International Competition, among others.
With violinist William Terwilliger, as the award-winning Opus Two, he has recorded the complete works for piano and violin by Aaron Copland and performed them worldwide. He has also performed with the Takacs and Ying Quartets, Trio Contraste, the Dorian Quintet, and the Colorado Chamber Players. An advocate for new music, he has premiered works by Lowell Liebermann, Robert Starer, Dan Welcher, and John Fitz Rogers, and Opus Two's upcoming CD for Naxos, music of Leonard Bernstein, features newly commissioned arrangements by Broadway veteran Eric Stern. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cincinnati and Peabody Conservatories, Dr. Cooperstock studied with Abbey Simon, David Bar-Illan, Walter Hautzig, and Samuel Sanders. Currently, he chairs the keyboard department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Sergio Gallo - piano (YAS)
Sergio
Gallo joined Georgia State University in fall 2006, having previously
served as faculty at the University of North Dakota and Millikin University.
Dr. Gallo received his degrees from the Conservatoire Européen
de Musique in Paris (Diplôme d'Excellence), the Franz Liszt Academy
of Budapest, Hungary, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Master
of Music and Artist Diploma) and the University of California (DMA).
He has performed with orchestras throughout the Americas and in Turkey,
as well as for Radio France and Radio Cultura. Recently, Dr. Gallo performed
and taught in several countries in Asia and Europe, as well as in major
cities in the United States and in his home country, Brazil. In addition,
he has served as the adjudicator for the International Piano Performance
Examinations in Taiwan.
Dr. Gallo is the winner of concerto competitions of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the University of California Symphony. He has received a grant from the Henry Cowell Incentive Funds at the American Music Center in New York, NY, and has toured North Dakota with a Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grant award from the National Endowments for the Arts.
Sergio Gallo is a Bosendorfer artist and records for the Eroica label. His recordings have been reviewed by Gramophone Magazine and American Record Guide.
Marina Beretta Hammond - duo-piano (JSS1)
The
Hammonds made their debut as a duo in 1991 at the V Latin-American Music
Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. The Hammonds have played at the IX Contemporary
Music Festival in Alicante, Spain and in the Chamber Music series at the
Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. They have toured Argentina repeatedly, playing
in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Cordoba and Concepcion. The Duo has given many
performances as recitalists and with orchestra in the United States, Venezuela,
Spain and Argentina.
Fred Hammond, born in Venezuela, received his Bachelor and Master of Music from The Julliard School. He is currently teaching piano at the Young Pianists Program of the Indiana University and IUPUI Music Academy. He has played in Spain, France, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and the United States. Marina Berretta-Hammond, born in Argentina, graduated from the National Conservatory of Music and in 1992 received a Master of Music at Indiana University where she is on the adjunct faculty.
Catherine Herbener - piano ( YAS, JSS1& 2, Piano Seminar)
Catherine
Herbener, piano, appears as a collaborative artist in recitals throughout
the United States. As a member of the Bachman Trio, she participated in
the touring program of the Nebraska Arts Council, received three grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts and participated in a cultural
exchange with the Republic of Tajikistan. Ms. Herbener often performs
and premieres new works of music. She frequently concertizes with oboist
William McMullen. They have been heard in numerous recitals, master classes
and conferences. In 2002, their recording of 20th Century British Music
for Oboe and Piano was released by Crystal Records. Ms. Herbener has also
recorded on the Vienna Modern Masters label and her performances are heard
regularly on Nebraska Public Radio. Ms. Herbener operates a piano studio
in Lincoln, Nebraska and is on the faculty of Concordia
University. She holds a Master's of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Michigan State University and a Bachelor's Degree in Piano Performance from Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Pianist ELI KALMAN has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, United States and Canada. Hailing from Israel, he was the recipient of the Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship for Excellence at UW-Madison. He was an enthusiastic artist-in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada where he has performed for three consecutive years in the Art of the Ensemble concert series. Dr. Kalman performed at the Token Creek Festival, the Emmanuel Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston, and the Connoisseur Series at Wichita State University, the “Searl Pickett Classical Concert Series” at Windhover and as a part of the acclaimed Myra Hess Memorial concerts in Chicago. In 2001, he recorded on CD the works for solo piano and cello and piano by Erwin Junger and in 2006, Robert Schumann’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Rose Mary Harbison. Other recordings of his recitals have been heard on Jerusalem Radio and for the most part on Wisconsin National Public Radio. His research interests include neglected repertoire for strings and piano and the compositions of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti and Israeli composer Erwin Junger. Since 2006, he serves as Professor of Piano at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and he is also on the piano faculty at the association “Maestro“, which is a non-profit organization in Israel that provides a home base for accomplished Israeli musicians living abroad. Dr. Kalman earned the Diploma in Piano Performance at the Academy of Music “G. Dima” in Cluj, Romania, the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
SoYoung Lee -
piano,(RRMC Music Director, YAS, JSS1 & 2, APS)
SoYoung Lee, Music Director at Rocky Ridge Music Center, received her Doctorate in Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. An award winning pianist and a Regents Scholar, she is a recipient of the Ernő Dohnányi Piano Prize, Gwendolyn Koldofsky Accompanying Fellowship and the Corwin Composition Award. SoYoung is involved with a number of music and dance projects including Bach2Brazil and In the Mist chamber ballets in collaboration with choreographer and former Balanchine dancer Viki Psihoyos, a multi-disc recording project of Schumann with pianist Sergio Gallo and baritone Daniel Ihasz. She has held director positions at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory Adult Education & Preparatory Department, Millikin University Preparatory Division and the Boulder Arts Academy & Boulder Ballet. SoYoung served on the music faculty at Millikin, State University of New York, Fredonia and was a visiting Piano Pedagogy faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She attended the University of Birmingham and the Birmingham School of Music in England, the University of Southern California and the University of California at Santa Barbara on a full music scholarship. SoYoung is equally at home as a performing artist, teacher, producer, and an arts advocate.
Naoko
Takao, piano, is the winner of many top prizes including the 7th San Antonio
International Piano Competition, and has been actively performing as recitalist,
orchestral soloist, and chamber musician in the United States, as well
as in Canada, France, Taiwan, and Japan. Currently a faculty member at
Levine
School of Music in Washington, D. C., she performs regularly with
such noted ensembles as Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica.
She has studied piano with Santiago Rodriguez, Anne Koscielny, Raymond
Hanson, Nathan Schwartz and Andre Watts and chamber music with the Guarneri
String Quartet