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Yelena Mamonova - Private Lessons
 Pianist
and pedagogue, Yelena Mamonova, performed extensively as a
chamber musician and as vocal accompanist throughout her native
Russia as well as in the United States. She studied at the
prestigious Mussorgsky Music Academy, where she received degrees
in Piano Performance, Piano Pedagogy, Vocal Accompaniment as
well as Chamber Music. Later she continued her music education
at the legendary Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Leningrad,
where she pursued degrees in Piano Performance, Vocal Coaching,
Chamber Music as well as Piano Pedagogy. Ms. Mamonova has
performed in recitals in major concert halls of St. Petersburg
and other concert venues throughout Russia as a Chamber
Musician.
She has worked and performed extensively as a vocal
coach/accompanist and as an Accompanist for Chorus. She also
worked at a State Music School as Professor of Piano. After Ms.
Mamonova moved to the United States, she continued working and
performing as a Chamber Musician, Vocal Coach and Professor of
Piano. Her students are winners of many local, national and
international piano competitions, such as The New Jersey Music
Teacher's Association Young Artist Competition and Concerto
Competition; The Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey's Solo,
Young Artist, Ensemble & Concerto Divisions; The Sicilian Music
Club's Solo & Ensemble Divisions; The Battleground Symphony
Concerto Competition, The Young Music People Program
Competition; The Goldblatt Scholarship Competition, The Russian
Festival of Music, The Golden Key Competition, The Andrew
Degrado Memorial Competition, The Governor School Program, and
The Concerto Competition of Festival Musica in Laguna (Junior &
Senior Divisions), Chioggia, Italy. Many of her students
performed at such prestigious venues as Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at lincoln Center, Steinway Hall
and Yamaha Piano Salon in New York City, Westminster Choir
College's Bristol Chapel, Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church of
Plainfield, the Milburn library, Watchung Art's Center, etc. In
the Spring of 2007, Ms. Mamonova adjudicated Young Pianist
Competition of New Jersey's Young Artist Divisions and in the
Summer of 2007, she joined the piano faculty of Festival "Musica
in Laguna" (Chioggia, Italy) where she also adjudicated their
Concerto and Solo Competitions for Junior and Senior Divisions
Lana Ivanov – Career Development
 Achieving
a career as a performer requires self-imaging and promotion.
This course covers the professional presentation of artist's
biographies, promotional photographs, as well as general
guidelines regarding the music industry. All students will leave
the Festival with a professional press portfolio.
Lana Ivanov has distinguished herself in the field of arts
management. From 1989 - 1996, Ms. Ivanov was the Touring
Division Coordinator of ICM Artists, Ltd. She became the
Artistic Director and a faculty member of the Shandelee Music
Festival in 1994. Since 1996, she has also been the Executive
Director of the Young Pianist Competition of NJ.
She has been a faculty member of the festival "Musica in Laguna" in
Chioggia (Italy) since 2000. Ms. Ivanov received her Bachelor of Music from
the prestigious Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of
Zenon Fishbein in 1988. In addition, she has studied with
renowned pianist Zoltán Kocsis at the International Bartók
Festival in Hungary.
As a performer, Ms. Ivanov was the inaugural first prize winner
of the Summit Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. She has
the distinct honor of being the only recipient to receive the
Gina Robinor Pedagogy Award of Excellence presented by the Piano
Teacher's Society of America both as a piano student and as a
teacher.
Ms. Ivanov also maintains a successful private piano studio. Her
students have been winners at many prestigious competitions
including Piano Teachers Congress of NY, NJ Music Teachers
Association, Piano Teacher's Society of America and Young
Pianist Competition of NJ.
Christopher Kennedy - Piano Technology For
The Performing Pianist
 This
course will cover the technical aspects of piano voicing,
regulation, tuning, and basic maintenance, enabling participants
to better communicate their needs to their piano technician. All
participants will receive a basic tuning kit.
Christopher Kennedy is the Resident Keyboard Technician at The
Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. He has presented
Piano Technology for the Performing Pianist as a Lecture Series
at The Julliard School of Music, The New Jersey Professional
Pianists Association, and for the past eight years as a full day
workshop at The Shandelee Music Festival. In an expanded
edition, this has become a curriculum course at the 92nd Street
Y School of Music in New York City. |
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