Tue 7/13-Sat 7/17 @ 7PM
Oberlin Conservatory’s Oberlin-Como Piano Academy was launched in 2016 as a special opportunity for a handful of outstanding piano students to work with equally outstanding teachers from both Berlin and partner institution, Italy’s International Piano Academy Lake Como. These teachers hold weeklong residencies on the Oberlin campus each year, extending the benefits of their presence to all the conservatory’s piano students.
This year, they’re doing something different — with some good news for piano music lovers. The Oberlin-Como Piano Festival will feature five evenings of free, virtual programming available through Oberlin Stage Left. Master teachers Yefim Bronfman, William Grant Naboré, Dang Thai Son, Robert Spano, and Oberin-Como director Stanislav Ioudenitch will be offering master classes, with the three 2021 Oberlin Como fellows and five Oberlin Conservatory piano students participating in the teaching and performance segments.
Each master class will start with a 20-minute interview with the master teacher in which they talk about their own development as pianists. That will be followed by a student performance nad master class. Each segment has a theme that will infuse its discussion and performances: Dang Thai Son’s “Conversations with Chopin,” Bronfman’s “Piano Concerti of Beethoven and Brahms,” Naboré’s “The Marvel of the Baroque on the Pianoforte,” Ioudenitch’s “The Golden Age of Piano Virtuosity: Legacy of Lake Como,” and Spano’s “Performing Piano Concerti: A Conductor’s View.”
Go here for more information; access the programming here.
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