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yong hi moon, private lessons
Accomplished pianist and teacher
Yong Hi Moon
made her solo debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at age 10
after winning the National Korean Broadcasting Competition.
Among many awards and prizes
Ms. Moon has won top prizes in the Elena-Rombro Stepanow
Competition in Vienna, the Viotti International Competition
in Vercelli, Italy, received the Chopin Prize from Geneva
International Competition in Switzerland, and was also a
prizewinner in the Vienna da Motta Competition in Lisbon,
Portugal.
Ms. Moon has performed extensively throughout Asia, Europe and
the US as a recitalist and with orchestras including the Osaka,
Seoul, Tokyo, and Korean National symphony orchestras. She has
collaborated with her husband - pianist/conductor Dai Uk Lee in
duo piano concerts in the US and Korea, and has performed under
his baton with the Busan Philharmonic. In the summer of 2000,
she made her first extensive concert tour of Korea, including
solo recitals in five cities as well as performances with the
Orchestras of Kwangju and Daejun. Upcoming engagements include
Ms. Moon’s return to Korea to perform with the Ulsan
Philharmonic.
In
1975 Ms. Moon was invited officially by the Korean government to
participate in a festival commemorating the 30th anniversary of
the Korean liberation, and since 1990 has been regularly invited
to perform and give master classes throughout Korea. In 1991 she
performed in a cycle of the complete Mozart piano concerti
with the Bu-Chon Philharmonic Orchestra to commemorate the
composer's bicentennial year. During 1997, Ms. Moon performed
six all-Schubert solo recitals in both Korea and the US. Her
discography includes a CD recording on the Music and Art label
of Czech four-hand piano music that has received outstanding
critical acclaim.
Ms.
Moon is in high demand as a guest master class teacher and
adjudicator. In 1993, she released a teaching video in Korea
titled "Artistic Piano Playing" which has earned great
popularity. Ms. Moon has been a regular faculty member at
Shandelee, Aria, Prague and Bowdoin Summer Festivals. In
addition, she has been invited to perform and conduct master
classes in Chautauqua Summer Festival in New York and the
International School for Musical Arts in Canada.
As
an adjudicator, she judged in Senigallia International Piano
Competition in Italy, Gilmore International Piano Competition as
well as numerous MTNA (Music Teachers National Association)
related competitions throughout the US and Korea. After teaching
at Michigan State University School of Music for fifteen years,
Ms. Moon joined the faculty of Peabody Conservatory of Music in
2002 where she currently maintains a full-time position.
A native of Korea, Ms. Moon studied at the Vienna Academy, from
which she graduated with highest honors. She then continued her
studies in London before completing her Artist Diploma degree at
Indiana University. Her teachers include Dieter Weber, Maria
Curcio, Georgy Sebok, Leon Fleisher, Wilhelm Kempff and Fu Tsong,
who were always an inspiration to her work.
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. 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.
Mr. Kennedy is also an accomplished pianist and composer. He has
studied with Leslie Pintchick, Jacqueline Schweitzer, and
Richard Shirk. The play, Song for the Last Act: A Portrait of
Louise Bogan with his original music made its European debut at
the Edinburgh Festival in 1991. He is currently performing a
one-man show entitled Pulling Strings. |
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