This class, designed for intermediate to advanced level performers, will address technical, stylistic, and conceptual issues in order to deepen participants' musical understanding and provide an artistic context to their repertoire.
Practice techniques, performance preparation and learning to "own the stage" will also be addressed.
New students wishing to be active participants must complete a virtual audition before the beginning of the seminar.
The seminar will be conducted in the format of a master class. All active participants will be coached by Ya-Fei Chuang and at least once a semester by one of two distinguished guest artists. Past guests include world-renowned music scholar Christoph Wolff from Harvard University, Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner, and concert pianists/piano professors such as Jonathan Bass, Alessio Bax, Donald Berman, Bruce Brubaker, Gabriel Chodos, Hugh Hinton, Randall Hodgkinson, Jungja Kim, Robert Levin, Max Levinson, Michael Lewin, Victor Rosenbaum, Sergey Schepkin and Boaz Sharon.
The seminar will culminate in a public concert at the end of each semester. All participants are expected to perform in the concert.
Participants registered for credit are required to play a minimum of two works from the beginning of the semester (individual movements are allowed) of different style periods. In the course of the semester they must give an introductory lecture devoted to the works they intend to play, followed by a performance of those works. Participants registered for credit are required to perform in the public concert. They must perform by memory, but exceptions can be made for contemporary music upon the approval of the instructor.
1 credit including 2 hours coaching: $800 per semester
Non-credit including 2 hours of coaching: $535 per semester
Auditors: $300 per semester
Auditors Drop In: $40 pay at the door per session
Virtual Auditions:
Repertoire requirement: A minimum of two works or movements of different periods.
Please upload videos to YouTube as "Unlisted" Email submissions to continuingeducation@necmusic.edu by Sep. 8, 2021.
Applicants are also welcome to email the instructor, Ya-Fei Chuang, a brief biography to introduce themselves at ya-fei.chuang@necmusic.edu.
Spring 2022 Dates:
January 19th
February 2nd
February 16th
March 2nd
March 16th
March 30th
April 13th
May 11th (recital)
