COLLABORATIVE PIANO PROGRAM

July 29-August 12

This program offers pianists the chance to expand their experience beyond the solo repertoire, choosing from among three categories.

1. Chamber Music With Strings or Winds - fee $275. Click Here for Description.
   
   
2. Piano Duos (2 pianos or 4 hands) - fee $275.
   Director - Efrem Briskin
   Coordinator - Susan Merdinger
   
   This two week program will pair together pianists of matched abilities, and also welcome applications from pre-formed duo piano teams ages 30 and under from around the world. Repertoire and piano partners will be assigned in advance of the program, based on the application audition recordings. Participants will each study one major work or movement of one work for Two Pianos, or/and one work for One Piano, Four Hands. The program will culminate with a performance by the participants of the studied repertoire.
   
   2012 Suggested Repertoire For Two Pianos:
• Mozart - Sonata for Two Pianos in D major
• Rachmaninoff - Suite No. 1 or 2
• Gottschalk - Pasquinade
• Chabrier - Espana
• Saint-Saëns - Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 35
• Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals
• Lutoslawski - Paganini Variations
• Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn
• Brahms - Sonata in F minor, Op. 34b
• Gershwin - Variations on I've Got Rhythm
• Stravinsky - Three Movements of Petrouchka
  
  
For One Piano, Four Hands:
• Brahms Hungarian Dances
• Brahms Waltzes
• Schubert- Complete Works
• Ravel- Ma Mère l'Oye
• Stravinsky- Five Easy Pieces
• Dvorak-Slavonic Dances
• Rachmaninoff- Piano Duet, Op. 11
• Moskowski- Spanish Dances

3. Piano Accompaniment (see requirements) - fee gratis.
   Director - Efrem Briskin
   Coordinator - Yuri Kim
   
   The Art and Skills of Accompanying
   How to follow soloists without losing your individuality and feel the music together. The different approaches to accompanying different instruments (such as violin, cello, winds, and vocalists). Concertos – how to create the impression of a full orchestra and a conductor. How to coach instrumentalists in seeing their role as part of a complex score, and treating the pianist as partners.
   
   The most qualified participants will be considered as candidates for a 1st week accompanist position for SMF’s 2013 season.

FOR ALL THREE CATEGORIES THE TOTAL FEE IS $500.

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