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Guest Artist | Faculty | Schedule | Rules and Guidelines

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The University of Northern Colorado School of Music is proud to present The Colorado Piano Festival November 14-16, 2008 at the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley, Colorado. With three days of concerts, masterclasses and a precollege concerto competition, there will be exciting opportunities for music-lovers, pianists and students of all ages and levels.

PERFORMANCES
World-renowned pianist, Frank Weinstock, will present the Friday night opening concert. On Saturday evening, the artist-faculty from the University of Northern Colorado will perform a varied program of solo and chamber works.

PRE-COLLEGE CONCERTO COMPETITION
On Sunday afternoon, up-to six finalists in the Pre-College Concerto Competition will take the stage in a public performance to determine who will return to UNC in the spring to perform a complete concerto with the award-winning University of Northern Colorado Symphony.

MASTERCLASSES
Interested festival participants will be given the opportunity to submit a recording for consideration for a masterclass performance. Masterclass and workshop presenters will include Prof. Weinstock and University of Northern Colorado faculty, Vergie Amendola, Caleb Harris, Errol Haun, Danda Landry and Lei Weng.


GUEST ARTIST
Frank Weinstock. Chair, Piano Department, University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, is in demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician. Mr. Weinstock is also busy teaching master classes and judging major international piano competitions. He has toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. He has appeared with such conductors as Keith Lockhart, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Gunther Schuller, Luthero Rodrigues, and Jorge Mester, and as a chamber musician with the late Leonard Rose, Glenn Dicterow, Larry Combs, the Percussion Group Cincinnati, the Tokyo Quartet, and with members of the Guarneri, LaSalle, Manhattan, and Berkshire Quartets. He is particularly known for his penetrating interpretations of the Viennese classics. Weinstock was featured in Benjamin Saver’s recent book “The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA”. Coming from six continents, his former students, including Anton Nel and Michael Chertock, are themselves prominent performers and teachers--recording for many prestigious labels and teaching at universities around the world.

UNC FACULTY

Vergie Amendola, Piano/Collaborative Piano,
is the Coordinator of the Collaborative Piano Program at the University of Northern Colorado.  In addition, Amendola is an active chamber musician who has performed in Thailand, Korea, Slovenia, Canada and throughout the United States.  She has also adjudicated for the Music Teachers National Association and has taught numerous masterclasses across the United States, focusing on the unique role of the pianist in the collaborative process of making music.

Caleb Harris, Piano/Collaborative Piano,
enjoys an active career as a pianist, and chamber musician. Possessing a broad and comprehensive repertoire, he has performed throughout the USA, Austria, France, Italy, and Asia. In recent years, Harris has served as an orchestral pianist with the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra and appeared on many occasions as a concerto and solo performer. Harris has performed in many prestigious venues included Carnegie Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

Errol Haun, Head of Keyboard Area,
is an active clinician and performer, touring extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music as a Fulbright Scholar and, as part of a piano duo, presented a concert tour of Micronesia sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Haun was a winner in the National Guild of Piano Teachers Biennial International Recording Competition and has received numerous awards.

Dana Landry, Director of Jazz Studies,
teaches jazz piano and coaches the Northern Colorado Voices, UNC’s top vocal jazz group. Under his direction, UNC Jazz Lab Band I has received two IAJE invitations and two Down Beat Awards as “Best College Big Band” in the last three years. Landry has performed with recognized jazz artists in Europe, Canada, Australia, and throughout the U.S. His CD, Journey Home (Summit Records), featuring Gary Burton, received a Grammy nomination for its title track.

Lei Weng, Piano,
has performed throughout America and Asia, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras from Seattle, Cincinnati, Ft Worth, Indiana, Louisiana, Beijing, Tianjin and China National Symphony and Chorus. New York Concert Review hailed Weng on his Carnegie hall debut as “a colorist of exemplary control.” Weng has won national and international competitions and has collaborated with musicians from top American orchestras. Weng teaches talented students from the US, Asia and Europe at UNC. He will tour and teach in major conservatories in Asia again in 2008-2009