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Schedule:
9 a.m. Business Meeting
10 a.m. Program

The featured presenter is Choong-Mo Kang, a teacher from Juilliard. His program, entitled “Traditions in Piano Performance,” will be in the form of a master class, with students performing representative works from the different style periods. Using the students for demonstration, Mr. Kang will focus on “how to teach” rather than “how to play” stylistic differences in the pieces performed.

There will be 3 students - Alex Zhu (student of Kelli Stephens) will perform Prelude and Fugue in g# minor, WTC I, J. S. Bach; Yurie Farnsworth (student of Julia Lee) will perform Sonata in C, Op.53 (3rd mvt), Beethoven; and Emily Brother (student of Dorothy Fahlman) will perform Un sospiro, Liszt.

Born in South Korea, Choong-Mo Kang has performed to critical acclaim with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and Korea's leading orchestras. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Opera House in Sydney, and throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In 2003 Mr. Kang performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Russia's revered pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva. He aspires to master and perform Johann Sebastian Bach's entire works for the keyboard. A graduate of Seoul National University, he received his master's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory and his Artist's Diploma from Peabody Conservatory. While pursuing his DMA at Peabody, he was appointed as a member of the Peabody piano faculty. Mr. Kang's recordings include Bach "Goldberg Variations", Inventions and Sinfonias, and The Well-Tempered Clavier. The great pianist and conductor Leon Fleisher praised Mr. Kang's Goldberg Variations as "A quite spectacular performance. A notable addition to the Goldberg discography." Mr. Kang has taught at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul until recently, and his students have been prizewinners in prominent competitions, such as Queen Elisabeth, Van Cliburn, Dublin, Epinal, Hamamatsu, Leeds, Long-Thibaud, Maria Canals, Shanghai and many more. Mr. Kang has given master classes throughout Europe, Asia and North America. He has been an artistic director of the Euro Music Festival and Academy in Leipzig and a faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and Ishikawa Music Festival in Japan. Mr. Kang has served on the jury of prestigious international competitions, which include Cleveland, Warsaw, Dublin, Shanghai, Seoul and Sydney.

In September 2011, Mr. Kang joined the Juilliard School to be on the piano faculty. He is also a special guest professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan.