Tuition Information
Complete Institute & Festival: July 19-August 2
Session I: July 19-25   –   Session II: July 26-August 2

Non-credit Tuition: $925 both sessions or $570 per session
Tuition for U.S. College Credit: $1839 both sessions (2 credits) or $931 per session (1 credit)
Auditors: $500 both sessions or $250 per session.
Auditor attendance per day: $50

Online application and $50 (non-refundable) fee due April 15. Full tuition due May 15. Audition recording required: 30 min. Free choice of repertoire.

Music lovers, Professionals, College & High School Students welcome.

Private lessons available on request. Scholarships and Dorms available.

Participants may compete for $10,000 USD in the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Scholarship Awards.

MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
International Keyboard Institute & Festival
150 West 85 St., New York, NY 10024
Tel: 212-580-0210 ext. 4858 Fax: 212-580-1738

www.ikif.org       info@ikif.org


Faculty Bios
JOAQUÍN ACHÚCARRO: Faculty Southern Methodist Univ., Chigiana Acad. Siena, Italy – Gold Medal Geneva Compet.– Berlin, London, NY Phil.- Abbado, Rattle, Mehta, Chailly - Sony, BMG-RCA

MAGDALENA BACZEWSKA: Faculty Montclair State Univ - Studies with J. Rose/Mannes College, C. Keene/Manhattan School of Music – Kosciuszko Fdnt. & MacKenzie Award– Recitals US & Europe

ASAF BLASBERG: Studies: J. Rose/Mannes; J. Lowenthal/Juilliard; Concerts – Last Three Sonatas of Schubert; Complete Sonatas of Schumann; Complete Sonatas of Brahms; All Liszt Program

ALEXANDER BRAGINSKY: Faculty Univ. of Minnesota; Fndng. Pres./Artistic Dir. Intntl. Piano e-Competition - Moscow Conserv. grad, Goldenweiser student - Concerts: USSR, Israel, Europe, China

LUCILLE CHUNG: Montreal Sym, Phila. Orch., Seoul Phil.-Wigmore, Carnegie, Concertgebouw – 1st prize Stravinsky Compet.- Curtis, Juilliard, Salzburg, Imola,- studies w/Berman, Achucarro – Disques XXI/Universal

RAN DANK: Studies with Robert McDonald - Prizes in Cleveland, Sydney, and Hilton Head Competitions - Performances in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully, Severance Hall, Sydney Opera House.

DAVID DUBAL: Faculty Juilliard – pianist, teacher, writer, lecturer, broadcaster - Reflections from the Keyboard WQXR New York; DVD Golden Age of the Piano; Essential Canon; The Art of the Piano

PHILIPPE ENTREMONT: World-wide tours as soloist, recitalist and conductor – Princ. Cond. Munich Symph; Lifetime Cond. Emeritus Vienna Chamber Orch; Cond. Emeritus Israel Chamber Orch - CBS, Sony, Teldec CDs

YING FENG: Silver Medal, Kapell 2003; 1st prize Hong Kong Piano Comp. – Perf. w/Baltimore Sym., Orch. Nat. de France; Alice Tully Hall recital, - Paris Conserv.; Reisenberg Award, Mannes; Studies w/Dokovska

ALON GOLDSTEIN: Perf. Phila.Orch., San Francisco, Baltimore, Houston, Dallas, St. Louis, Seattle; Los Angeles & Israeli Phil. w/Mehta, Blomstedt, Oundjian, Levi. Student & asst. of Fleisher. Carnegie debut 09.

SOFYA GULYAK: 1st prizes Kapell, Helsinki, Tivoli, Tongyeong, San Marino; prizewinner Busoni, Long. Study at Imola/Petrushansky - Performances: Moscow, Paris, Milan, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Berlin, Japan, USA

CHING-YUN HU: Top Prize, 2008 Rubinstein Intnt’l. Piano Competition -Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, JFK Center, Concertgebouw, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, w/ Israel Phil.Orch., Phila. Orch., National Sym.Orch. Taiwan.

BYRON JANIS: Internationally renowned pianist; first American artist to tour the Soviet Union in 1960 – French Legion d’Honneur for Arts & Letters – Studies with V. Horowitz – Prod., Chopin film seen worldwide.

OLGA KERN: Gold Medal 2001 Van Cliburn Competition – Carnegie Hall recital – Chicago Sym/Eschenbach, Conlon; LA Phil; Kirov Orch/Gergiev; Warsaw Phil; Casals Festival – Harmonia Mundi Recordings

MARIYA KIM: Study w/Kim, Krainev – Competition Prizes: Prize-winner Busoni, "Callas" Athens, Seoul, "Iturbi" Los Angeles, Paderewski - Perf.: Warsaw Phil., Moscow, Seoul, St.Petersburg Phil., Taipei.

ALEXANDER KOBRIN: Gold Medal 2005 Van Cliburn / 1999 Busoni; Prizewinner Hamamatsu and Chopin – Moscow Cons./ Naumov - Faculty Gnessin Acad - NY Phil., Moscow State & Tokyo Sym. - Harmonia Mundi

NINA LELCHUK: Faculty Queens College – Prizes: Chopin, M. Long, Cliburn competitions - Orch: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Moscow, Leningrad – Classes at Toho, Holland, Univ. of Michigan - Telarc & EMS

GABRIELE LEPORATTI: Studies w/Achucarro, Bidini, Rose, Tipo – Wigmore Hall, Herford Phil., NDR Hannover – Festival w/Royal Concertgebouw soloists, Radio Phil. Orch., Rotterdam Sym, Radio SAFm, RBB

FRANK LEVY: Faculty CUNY, former faculty Juilliard - Studies: Fleisher, Ax, Lupu, Perahia, Hiltbrand - Solo: Avery Fisher Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Mostly Mozart, Marlboro - Semi-Finalist: Leeds, Haskil - CDs: Palexa

YONI LEVYATOV: Prizes-Clairmont, Katz Comp., MacKenzie Award; Tully Hall debut. Soloist: Jerusalem Sym., Manhattan School of Music Sym. w/ Entremont - Studies: Wedeen, Rose, Keene, Mikowsky, Volkov

STEVEN MAYER: Recording complete Ives and Tatum for Naxos – Prof., Univ. of Denver; Manhattan School – Orchs: Gewandhaus, Minnesota, San Francisco Rotterdam; De Waart, Blomstedt , Conlon; Slatkin

IRINA MOROZOVA: Faculty: Mannes College, Special Music School of America - St. Petersburg Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music grad – Berlin Radio Sym – Recitals: US, Russia, Europe

QUYNH NGUYEN: Faculty Hunter College – Studies: J. Rose/Mannes; B. Davidovich/Juilliard; Canin/ DMA CUNY – Musical America 2004 “Star of Tomorrow”- Recitals: US, Europe, Asia – Laureate IKIF

MICHAEL OELBAUM: Faculty Mannes -Teaching Oxford, Sibelius Acad., Juilliard – Studies/Reisenberg Mannes; Serkin/Marlboro – NJ, Nashville, San Jose Sym., Vienna Cham. Orch. - Bridge CD Diabelli

HAESUN PAIK: Gold Medal Kapell, Silver Queen Elisabeth, Bronze Tchaikovsky - Faculty Seoul National Univ.- Graduate New England Conservatory;– Soloist: Boston & London Sym, Munich Phil. - EMI records

PIOTR PALECZNY: Chair, Chopin Compet.; Prizewinner Chopin Compet.; Perf. w/ Warsaw Phil, Chicago Sym., Concertgebouw, Gewandhaus, EMI, DUX recordings; Dir. Duszniki Fest., Prof., Chopin Acad. Warsaw

VITALY PISARENKO: Studies w/Yuri Slesarev/Moscow Conserv., Aquiles Delle Vigne/ Rotterdam Conserv.- First Prize Int. Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008 – Recitals in North & South Ameria, Europe & Asia

JEROME ROSE: Founder/Dir. IKIF - Faculty Mannes College, Mozarteum Salzburg - Gold Medal Busoni - Berlin Phil.; Chicago Sym./Solti; Sawallisch/Vienna - Recordings Medici –Liszt Grand Prix du Disque

VICTOR ROSENBAUM: Faculty New England Conserv., Mannes, Longy (Former Dir & Pres)- Studies Lhevinne, Shure – Tanglewood, Yellow Barn - Recitals/classes:Russia, Japan, China, Israel, Europe; Bridge/Fleur de Son

JOSÉ RAMOS SANTANA: Faculty Catholic Univ. – Juilliard grad - Bachauer prizewinner – studies: A. Marcus, L. Fleisher - NY Phil., Detroit Sym. - Tours Japan & China - Recording: Fleur de Son /Royal Phil.Orch

YUAN SHENG: Faculty Beijing Central Conservatory – Grad Manhattan School of Music/S. Mikowsky; private study/Rosalyn Tureck – laureate Havana & Bejing Competitions – Tenerife Phil.; Beijing Phil.

MYKOLA SUK: Faculty Univ.Nevada, Las Vegas – Gold Medal Liszt-Bartok Compet.– Studies Moscow Conserv./Lev Vlasenko – Russian National Sym./Pletnev - Vienna, Toronto - Melodiya , Hungaraton

MEI-TING SUN: 1st prizes 2002 Minnesota Piano-e Comp., 2002 Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev, 2005 National Chopin (U.S.) Concerts worldwide. BM, MM @ Mannes w/Aldwell, DMA @ Juilliard w/McDonald.

JEFFREY SWANN: Silver Medal Queen Elisabeth, First Prize Dino Ciani, Prizewinner Cliburn – Cincinnati, Pittsburgh Sym.; Rotterdam Phil.; Salonen; Abbado, Chailly – Beethoven Cycle Italy –DG, RCA, Agora

MATEI VARGA: Prizes: YCA, “Canals” and “Enescu” competitions – Recording: piano works of Enescu (Naxos, 2009) – Laureate: IKIF 2007 - Studies: Mannes College of Music, Pavlina Dokovska

ILYA YAKUSHEV: 1st prize World Piano Competition 2005 - studies at Mannes with Feltsman - San Francisco Sym./M.T. Thomas; Arkansas, Las Vegas Sym. - perf. New York, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg; Seoul

EDUARD ZILBERKANT: Faculty Univ of Alaska Fairbanks – Prizewinner Santander - Music Dir. & Conductor Fairbanks Sym.– Studies/Rose, Margulis, Fleisher – Atlanta Sym/Shaw – Recitals: Phila., Warsaw



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