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The 3rd Annual Piano Concerto Competition 2002 Juror Bios |
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Roberta Rust, Chair of Jury, began her concert career as soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen. Her subsequent performances across four continents have consistently captivated critics and inspired audiences. She has appeared in chamber music with the Lark and Ying String Quartets and as soloist with the New World Symphony and the Symphony of the Americas. Her critically acclaimed compact discs include Franz Joseph Haydn (Centaur Records), and Piano Music of Villa Lobos (Centaur Records) among others.
Rust served as Artistic Ambassador for the United States and has been the recipient of major grants such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Society of Arts and Letters and the International Concours de Fortepiano in Paris. She studied at the Peabody Conservatory, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin and received performer's certificates in piano and German Lieder from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She earned her master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music and her doctorate at the University of Miami. Her teachers have included John Perry, Ivan Davis, and Artur Balsam. Roberta Rust gives Master classes internationally, serves as adjudicator for piano competitions, and has written articles for Clavier Magazine, Perspectives, and Forum Group. She has lived in South Florida since 1988 and currently serves as Artist Faculty-Piano and Professor of Music at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. She has also taught at Florida International University in Miami and the Harid Conservatory. |
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Dr. Thomas Ferguson, Juror, received the degree of Bachelor of Music Education from Murray State University in Kentucky, and a Masters degree in Theory from the Eastman School of Music. In 1971 be completed the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Music Theory, also from the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Ferguson became professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University in the Fall of 1978, remaining there until May 1981.
In June of 1981, he left full time teaching to pursue a career as a professional musician based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since that time, he has been the pianist at several "Strip" hotels (Caesars Palace, Bally Grand, Sands Hotel, etc.) playing for the major stars. He has toured Europe, Saudi Arabia, the Phillipines and other countries. In 1988. Dr Ferguson returned to teaching and accepted the position of Coordinator of Music at the Community College of Southern Nevada and was later promoted to Chair of the Fine Arts Department. At the Community College he has initiated the Joe Williams Music Scholarship Program featuring name artists in concert for fund raising. He also began the CSN Jr. and Sr. High School Jazz Band festival (1988), and the Jazz Summer Camp. Under Dr. Ferguson's guidance, an Associate of Arts degree in music was established (1992). Dr. Ferguson is a past president of the International Association of Jazz Educators (1976-1978), and was appointed to the Jazz Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts for a four year term. He has published articles in the instrumentalist, IAJE Journal, Journal of Band Research, and the School Musician. Several band compositions and a book on big band teaching methods, The Jazz Rock Ensemble, have been published by Alfred Publications, as well as a number of compositions and arrangements for big band and jazz piano pieces. Dr. Ferguson is a member of the ASCAP. Educationally, he is in demand as an adjudicator-performer-clinician. He has conducted the All Slate High School Jazz Bands of California, New York. Wisconsin, Kansas, Georgia and others. He maintains an active role with the International Association of Jazz Educators, appearing as pianist and clinician at its annual national conventions '89 to present, and as a past member of the Past Presidents' Council. |
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Dr. Jose R. Lopez, Juror, received his D.M.A. degree from the University of Miami School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Rosalina Sackstein, a former pupil of Claudio Arrau and Isabella Vengerova. He has performed as soloist with orchestras in Italy and Venezuela, and has given recitals throughout South Florida, Spain and Washington, D.C. as a winner in the 1993 Miami-OAS Invitational Piano Competition. A versatile pianist, Dr. Lopez performs chamber music regularly as a member of the Dalbergi Trio. His interest in contemporary music features frequent World and American premieres in several states, including a new recording on the INNOVA label. He has been orchestral pianist for the Florida Philharmonic since 1990 and presently teaches at the Florida International University. | ||
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For more information and entry forms contact: Dr. Victor Hugo Alvarez, piano coordinator, CSN Music Program Phone: (702) 651-4659. Email: victor.alvarez@csn.edu For a Printable Entry Form please visit: Printable 2008 Entry Form |
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