Workshop II

*** Piano Master Class ***

 

As Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Music at Malone University, Dr. Michael Benson coordinates all facets of the keyboard program.  He has performed at the Smithsonian Institution, Steinway Hall, and Preston Bradley Hall on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series and has contributed piano pedagogy articles to Texas Music Teacher, American Music Teachers, Teaching Music, Keyboard Companion, Clavier, and the online journal, Piano Pedagogy Forum.  In March, 2011, he began a two-year appointment as a member of the Editorial Committee for the Music Teachers’ National Associations’ e-Journal.  He has presented his personal research on Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Solo Piano Sonatas at international workshops in Vienna, Austria, and Novi Sad, Serbia and has a book due to be published by University Press of America, Inc. titled, A Comparative Study on the Published Completions of the Unfinished Movements in Franz Schubert’s Sonata in C Major, D. 840 (“Reliquie”).  His teaching has included a semester abroad as a foreign expert in the Art Education College of JiMei University (People’s Republic ofChina) and faculty appointments atCarlSandburgCollege, the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater,Oakland University (MI), and The Ohio State UniversityatLima.  During the summer months, Dr. Benson teaches at several piano camps and has been inspired by the young musicians he has collaborated with at theInterlochenCenterfor the Arts.  He holds degrees in piano performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studied piano with Robert Roux and The University of Texas at Austin where he studied piano and piano pedagogy with Martha Hilley, Sophia Gilmson, and Nancy Garrett.

 

Date:          Monday, January 16, 2012 (Martin Luther King Jr. day)

Time:         9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Location:   Graves Piano & Organ Company

Event:        Dr. Benson will work with up to six students.  Teachers are allowed one student entrant unless there are still openings after the deadline.  If there are more than six applicants at the deadline, the Chairperson will choose the students and repertoire that creates the best balance for the program.  A student may play a piece or a movement of his/her choice.  A memorized and well-prepared program is required. 

Fees:          $25.00 for students of OhioMTA members; $50.00 for students of non-members; auditors attend free.

Application Deadline: Saturday, December 17, 2011 (postmarked)

 

Please send a check (payable to OhioMTA)

and the information including:

                        Name and age of the student

                        Title, composer, and length of the repertoire

                        Teacher’s name, phone number and/or e-mail address

to:

Dr. Gulimina Mahamuti

2735 Millsboro Road East

Mansfield,OH44903-8785

(419) 544-4075

glmnpiano@gmail.com