Testimonials
"I would recommend the summer music program at Penn State to any high school student who wants to spend a small part of their summer doing what they love with other high schools students from across the country who love it too."
International Piano Festival
If accepted as a piano student, you will receive a minimum of ninety minutes of private lessons with Penn State faculty and participate daily in classes chosen from keyboard
technique, harmonization, sight reading, history, conducting, keyboard literature, and theory. You could be chosen to perform in a public master class during the week. Pianists are
afforded from three to five hours per day of monitored practice time in order to prepare for the multiple lessons they will have during the week.
Please refer to the Piano Application information on the Fee and Registration page.
Timothy Shafer, professor of piano
Timothy Shafer, recipient of the 1997 Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association Teacher of the Year Award, has twice appeared at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall both as a soloist and as a member of Duo Concertant. In addition to maintaining an active solo recital and chamber music schedule in the United States, he has concertized, taught, and adjudicated in South America and Asia. With performance degrees and awards from both Oberlin and Indiana University, Dr. Shafer is the founding director of the keyboard option in Penn State's High School Summer Music Camp in 1987.
Steven Smith, professor of piano
Steven Smith, professor of piano at Penn State, has recorded and performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has won the Mozarteum competition in Salzburg, and in 1991 he received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association. Dr. Smith has taught at Penn State's Summer Music Camps since 1987.
Enrico Elisi, Italian pianist
Italian pianist Enrico Elisi regularly performs and gives master classes in Europe, America, and Asia. He has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras, has been featured as a recitalist in several radio broadcasts in the United States, Italy, and Germany, and has recorded for Portuguese national television. An active chamber musician, Elisi has collaborated with many renowned artists and performed at the Taos and Ravinia Festivals. Elisi has premiered several works (some of which were dedicated to him) at debut recitals in Toulouse, France; Carnegie Recital Hall; and other venues in North and South America. Founder and former director of the Green Valley Chamber Music Festival (NV), he was also the director of the Piano Institute of the Las Vegas Music Festival. Elisi is active nationally and internationally as an adjudicator and is on the piano faculty at Penn State University, having formerly served on the faculty of the University of Nevada (UNLV).
For more information about piano at the camp, contact:
Timothy Shafer
E-mail: summermusic@outreach.psu.edu
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