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Piano Institute 2016

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PAID Houston, Texas Permit No. 5910

2016 Piano Institute Application

Non-refundable application fee ($30) due with application. All other fees are due upon notification of acceptance. Make checks payable to “UH.”

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TUITION $450 (due upon notification of acceptance)

ROOM and BOARD $440 (optional, but strongly recommended due to scheduled evening activities)

M I will require room and board. M I will not require room and board.

AUDITIONSRecorded auditions must include two memorized works of contrasting musical periods.

Enclose audition CD with application postmarked by May 2, 2016.

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE WILL BE EMAILED ON OR BY MAY 16, 2016.

REPERTOIRE PREPARATIONParticipants are required to have two memorized, performance-ready pieces in contrasting styles in addition to other works in progress.

Memorized, performance-ready works:



Work(s) in progress:


Preferred solo piece for final Institute recital (no concerti):


Mail completed application form and $30 application fee to: TMF Piano Institute

UH Moores School of Music

3333 Cullen Blvd., Room 120

Houston, TX 77204-4017

For further information, contact Nancy Weems (P: 713.743.3182 or E: [email protected]) or Tali Morgulis (P: 713.743.3180 or E: [email protected])

Dr. Courtney Crappell serves as Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy in the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. He earned his BM in Piano Performance at Louisiana State University and his MM and DMA degrees in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma. His research has been featured at international and national conferences. He is author of the American Music Teacher journal bi-monthly column, “The ABCs of Generations XYZ.” Dr. Crappell has also published articles and reviews in Clavier Companion, the online Piano Pedagogy Forum and the MTNA e-Journal.

Moores School Professor and Juilliard graduate Timothy Hester has concertized as soloist and chamber musician in Britain, France, Italy, China, The Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Colombia, Singapore and Taiwan. He has collaborated with internationally known vocalists and instrumentalists and performed at festivals such as NYC Barge music Series, the Ojai Festival, Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Park City International Chamber Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Schlern International Music Festival and OK Mozart Festival as well as performing regularly with Da Camera of Houston. His teachers were renowned pedagogue Adele Marcus and UH Professor Emeritus Albert Hirsh.

YiFan Liu received the J. Nawrocka Award in The 10th International F. Chopin Piano Competition at the age of 18. In 1983, he won First Prize at the 1st All-China Piano Competition

and the First Prize at the 39th Wideman International Piano Competition in 1989. Mr. Liu was awarded the Most Distinguished Music Achievement Award by the Chinese Musicians Association in 1996. He has appeared as a soloist and recitalist in China, Japan, Russia, Poland, German, Czech, Romania, UK and the US. Mr. Liu currently teaches piano in Dallas, TX where many of his students have been grand prize winners in the Lennox International Young Artist Competition, the Juanita Miller Concerto Competition and the Dallas Symphonic Festival.

Tali Morgulis has appeared in UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Croatia, Taiwan, China, Israel and the U.S. as a soloist and chamber musician. Dr. Morgulis is a prizewinner of numerous national and international piano competitions. She has studied with Michael Boguslawsky, Wha Kyung Byun and Lev Natochenny. Dr. Morgulis joined the Moores School of Music faculty in 2008, after serving on the faculty of Fort Hays State University in Kansas for three years.

Katie Parr Smith has served as Director of the Maryse Gobel School of Dance in Nacogdoches, TX since 2008 and is also Co-Founder of the Dimensions Contemporary Ballet company. Ms. Smith studied at the Joffrey Ballet/New School University in New York City and joined the Minnesota Ballet in 2001. She danced professionally with the company for four years and

after her retirement, studied ballroom and Latin dance before teaching at studios in New Orleans and Austin.

John Weems, 1991 Texas Music Teachers Association Pre-Collegiate Teacher of the Year, has established himself as one of the outstanding pre-college teachers in the nation. His students excel in local, state, national and international competitions and continue to garner scholarships and competition prizes in their college careers. In demand as a national clinician, Mr. Weems has presented workshops for the Texas, New Mexico and New York Music Teacher Associations, the Eastman School of Music and the Music Teachers National Association conventions. Mr. Weems has been the subject of feature articles and interviews in publications, including American Music Teacher.

Nancy Weems has won top prizes in the International Recording Competition and the U.S. Artistic Ambassador Program. She frequently appears in recitals and master classes throughout the U.S., Europe, Russia, Mexico, Asia and Central America. Ms. Weems was named Collegiate Teacher of the Year in 1991 by the Texas Music Teachers Association and in 1995 received the Teaching Excellence Award, presented by the University of Houston, where she is currently the Madison Endowed Professor of Music and the coordinator of the Piano Area for the Moores School of Music. Her recordings can be heard on the Bay Cities and Albany labels.

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Piano Institute Application 2016 TUITION $450 Piano ... Other... · Piano Institute Application. ... Liu currently teaches piano in Dallas, ... teaching at studios in New Orleans