Dear Fellow Piano Teachers,
I urge all of you to start making your plans to attend our 2011 NCMTA Fall Conference at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 28-30. I am pleased to inform you that our 2011 state conference artist will be pianist Marina Lomozov. You will find more detailed information on our conference artist in this Journal.
The NCMTA 2012 Contest/Festival Repertoire List is found in this Journal and on this website. On behalf of the NCMTA membership, I extend our collective thanks and sincere gratitude to the members of this year’s repertoire selection committee. They were Barbara Furr, Kathleen Vockeroth, Sue Aceves and Anne Scoggin. The committee also received valuable research assistance from Allen Herther of the Burrage Music Company, Raleigh. The challenge for the committee was to find the appropriate balance between the inclusion of well-known, frequently taught literature and lesser known, worthy repertoire that deserves more attention. We are very pleased to present the 2012 list and hope you find many selections that fulfill the musical and pedagogical needs of your students.
At last Fall’s Wilmington NCMTA Conference Piano Section meeting, the section recommended a change in how our future Fall Workshops would be presented. After the conference, I formed a sub-committee of Tom Lohr, Diane Blanchard and myself to further research long-range attendance numbers and study member concerns about the proposed change. After careful deliberations, the subcommittee decided to advise the Board to continue the workshops as they have been presented in the past. The NCMTA Board accepted the subcommittee’s recommendation.
We are proud to announce that this Fall’s Piano Workshop Clinicians are Dr. Andrew Willis, UNCG School of Music piano faculty member (http://www.uncg.edu/~aswillis/), and Cynthia Lawing, Davidson College piano faculty member (http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x24506.xml).
The locations and times for the Workshops are as follows:
Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 (Ruggero Piano Store – Raleigh) Site coordinator: Christine Smith
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 (Queens College – Charlotte) Site coordinator: Lib Hughston
Junior music (Cynthia Lawing) mornings, 9:00 – 12:00
Senior music (Andrew Willis) afternoons, 1:00 – 5:00
Thanks to Tom Lohr, who has handled the arrangements for the workshops.
I also encourage you to consider entering your students in the MTNA Senior Piano and/or the MTNA Senior Piano Duet competition (http://www.mtna.org/Programs/Competitions/Senior/tabid/306/Default.aspx).
May your summer provide you with a time for professional renewal and personal rejuvenation. Congratulations on your contributions to the musical training of our youth and the musical fulfillment of our adult students. May NCMTA continue to fulfill your professional need for life-time learning. “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
Marina Lomazov
2011 conference artist.
Praised by critics as “a diva of the piano” (Salt Lake City Tribune), “a mesmerizing risk taker” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and “simply spectacular” (International Music Foundation, Chicago), Ukrainian-American pianist Marina Lomazov has established herself as one of the most passionate and charismatic performers on the concert scene today. Following prizes in the Cleveland International Piano Competition, William Kapell International Piano Competition, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Ms. Lomazov has given performances throughout North America, South America, England, France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Japan and in most of the fifty states in the U.S
Most recently Lomazov became a Steinway Artist after a surprise ceremony in June of 2009 that unveiled a Steinway Grand Piano, an unprecedented and incredibly generous gift from the citizens of Columbia, South Carolina. Recognized by The New York Times for her virtuosity and wit, Lomazov's recent performances include recitals in New York City (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and Rockefeller University), Chicago (Dame Myra Hess Concert Series), Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Boston (Symphony Hall). As orchestral soloist, Ms. Lomazov has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic (NY), South Carolina Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony (SC), Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Graz Höchschulorchester (Austria), Bollington Festival Orchestra (England) and Chernigoff Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), to name a few.
Before immigrating to the United States, Marina studied at the Kiev Conservatory where she became the youngest First Prize Winner of the all-Kiev Piano Competition. Ms. Lomazov holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, the latter granting upon her the highly coveted Artist’s Certificate – an honor the institution had not bestowed upon a pianist for nearly two decades. Her principal teachers include Leonid Lazarevich Fundiler and the late Valery Sagaidachny in the Ukraine and Natalya Antonova, Jerome Lowenthal, and Barry Snyder in the United States.
Ms. Lomazov is a frequent guest artist at music festivals at the U.S. and abroad, including Burgos Music Festival (Spain), Moulin d’Andé Arts Festival (France), Summer Evenings in Kiev (Ukraine), Sulzbach-Rosenberg Music Festival (Germany), Hamamatsu International Piano Academy (Japan), Chautauqua Music Festival (NY), Northwest Piano Festival (OR), Wassermann Piano Festival (UT), Grand Teton Music Festival (WY) and Brevard Music Festival (NC). She has recorded for Albany Records, Arizona University Recordings, Centaur Records and Innova Recordings. In July of 2009, Centaur Records released her latest recording of solo piano works by Rodion Shchedrin. She has been featured on the "Bravo" cable channel, and her live performances are broadcast regularly on public radio stations including programs such as National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” and New York’s “Young Artist Showcase”, among numerous others.
Lomazov is Associate Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina School of Music where she is also the founder and artistic director of the Southeastern Piano Festival.
Professor Marina Lomazov was a state artist for Montana MTA conference in 2006. http://www.marinalomazov.com
