MILNE AUDITORIUM, KEPNER HALL, UNC

JULY 27-29, 2018

On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of the College of Performing and Visual Arts at the University of Northern Colorado, I welcome you to the eighth annual Colorado Piano Festival. At UNC, we pride ourselves on transformational educational experiences for the students that come here to study the arts, as well as many other disciplines. We especially welcome the students who have come from throughout the United States and the world to learn more about the art of performing the piano under the tutelage of world-class guest artists and our faculty. We also are proud of the fact that we

offer the highest standard of piano instruction in a supportive, nurturing artistic environment, which is one of the hallmarks of our music and arts programs. We hope that your time on campus is spent enjoying all that the University of Northern Colorado and the community of Greeley has to offer you.

Leo Welch Dean, College of Performing and Visual Arts

On behalf of the students, faculty, and staff of the School of Music at the University of Northern Colorado, I am excited to welcome you to the Colorado Piano Festival. We are thrilled to share our passion for music with you.  With over 550 students and 60 faculty, the School of Music continues to build upon an amazing legacy of achievement with an important regional, national, and international presence.  The School of Music has been named a Colorado School of Excellence - the highest honor the Colorado Commission on Higher Education can bestow on a program offered by a state institution of higher education - and has received over 100 Downbeat Magazine Awards for our work.  Artistic excellence is the norm here.  Yet, the School of

Music has not stopped there.  UNC students are entering the field with something important to offer and our incredible faculty are providing them with the training that will allow their voice to be fully heard.  The modern musical landscape has tremendous opportunities in it and our students and faculty are fully engaged and prepared to be leaders in it! 

I know that you will have a rewarding musical experience working with our distinguished piano faculty.  Enjoy your time at UNC and I hope you will be back many times to see us.

Michael Alexander

WELCOME

The Colorado International Piano Academy sincerely thanks Schmitt Music forproviding the performance Steinway Grand Piano.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, July 27 9:00 am Colorado Piano Festival Competition: Elementary, Senior Divisions (Frasier 90)9:00 am Colorado Piano Festival Competition: Young Artist Division. (Milne Auditorium)2:00-3:30 pm UNC Piano Faculty Masterclass Elementary Division - Lei Weng3:30-5:00 pm UNC Piano Faculty Masterclass, Elementary Division - Justin Krawitz7:30 pm Guest Artist Piano Recital – Michael Chertock

Saturday, July 28 9:00-11:00 am Guest Artist Piano Masterclass - Michael Chertock2:00-4:00 pm UNC Piano Faculty Masterclass All Divisions - Willem van Schalkwyk

Sunday, July 29 8:30-10:30 am UNC Piano Faculty Masterclass All Divisions - Adam Zukiewicz 11:00 am CPF Competition Winners’ Concert

All events, except for the CPF Elementary and Junior Division Competitions, will take place at the Milne Auditorium of Kepner Hall, University of Northern Colorado

2018 Colorado Piano Festival

The Colorado Piano Festival, hosted by the University of Northern Colorado, will be held July 27-29, 2018 at Milne Auditorium in Kepner Hall on the UNC campus in Greeley, Colorado. With three days of concerts, masterclasses and the CPF Competition, there will be exciting opportunities for music-lovers, pianists and students of all ages and levels.

WELCOME

The Colorado International Piano Academy sincerely thanks Schmitt Music forproviding the performance Steinway Grand Piano.

MICHAEL CHERTOCK

Pianist Michael Chertock has fashioned a successful career as an orchestral soloist, collaborating with conductors such as James Conlon, Jaime Laredo, Keith Lockhart, Erich Kunzel and Andrew Litton. His many orchestral appearances include solo performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, l’Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal, the Toronto Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony. Chertock performs frequently overseas, most recently playing and conducting a Gershwin program with the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia.

In 2014, Chertock recorded a concerto by John Alden Carpenter with Keith Lockhart and the BBC Orchestra at the famed Dutton Epoch recording studio in London, England.

Claude Gingras of La Presse, Montreal, said of pianist Michael Chertock: “Chertock revealed himself as a first-rate pianist and an interpreter of noticeable interest through the freshness that he brought to these familiar scores....(he) displayed the sensitivity of a Chopin interpreter.” The Boston Globe has called his playing “unmannered, zestful, and lovely.” The Cincinnati Enquirer has described the Virginia native as “intelligent and disciplined...noble...finely finished...expressive and well-controlled.” The Salt Lake City Deseret News said “Chertock... is a musical performer with an immense technical command of the piano.” His 2003 performance on the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Petrouchka with Paavo Järvi turned in rave reviews in Gramophone and American Record Guide.

Chertock made his debut at the age of 17, performing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with Andrew Litton conducting. In 1994, Chertock released his first CD on the Telarc label, a collection of his original arrangements of music from movies entitled Cinematic Piano. American Record Guide said “(Chertock) plays beautifully, and Telarc’s lush sonics bathe the listener in an intoxicating wash of piano sonorities.” Cincinnati Enquirer critic Janelle Gelfand cited his “elegant techniques...just the right poetic tone.” Since then, he has recorded three more discs with Telarc: Palace of the Winds, Christmas at the Movies and Love At the Movies, which have been praised for their lush, original arrangements and exquisite technical facility.

Chertock began conducting in 2001 when he stepped in for Maestro Carmon De Leone in performances of Cincinnati Ballet’s The Nutcracker. He now serves as Assistant Conductor of that organization. Chertock is the Music Director of the Blue Ash-Montgomery Symphony, located in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio, and he frequently composes and arranges music for the orchestra’s concerts. He has also conducted the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras.

Chertock serves as chair of the piano department at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he received his Master’s Degree. He has garnered numerous awards at major competitions, among them the top prize in the 1989 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (Brahms Division,) and the grand prize in the 1993 St. Charles International Piano Competition. He also shared the silver medal in the 1991 World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association. He received the Rildia B. O’Bryon Cliburn Scholarship in 1986.

GUEST ARTISTS

MICHAEL CHERTOCK Recital

Friday, July 27th, 2018, 7:30pmMilne Auditorium, University of Northern Colorado

Fantasy in C minor, K.475 W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Sonata in C minor, Op. 13. Pathétique. L.W Beethoven I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio (1770-1827) II. Adadio cantabile III. Rondo: Allegro

From Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant Jesus Olivier Messiaen X. Regard de l’Esprit de Joie (1908-1992)

Intermission

Touches Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Round Midnight Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

How long has this been going on? George Gershwin (1898-1937)

On Golden Pond Dave Gruisin (born 1934)

Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin (1898-1937)

PROGRAMMING

Justin KrawitzPiano and Piano Pedagogy

Assistant Professor of Music

Dana LandryDirector of Jazz Studies

Jazz Piano, Professor of Music

Adam Piotr ZukiewiczPiano

Assistant Professor of Music

Debre ThrogmortonHarpsichord

Willem Van SchalkwykPiano & Opera/Vocal CoachingAssistant Professor of Music

Lei WengKeyboard Area Head, Piano

Associate Professor of Music

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